Published by The Financial Times on 2 February 2019

Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels, the 44-year-old Danish architect and founder of Bjarke Ingels Group, known as Big, juggles many projects. On a tour around the architectural practice he founded in Copenhagen 13 years ago, I see digital renditions for the Google headquarters in California and London he is working on with the British designer Thomas Heatherwick. From the office

windows, one can almost glimpse the silvery façade of the Amager Resource Centre, a waste resource plant he has just completed on the outskirts of the city: it has the world's longest artificial ski-slope on the roof. He is working on a $2bn campus master plan for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and the "Big U defences", a barrier system designed to protect Lower Manhattan from tidal surges. That evening, we eat at Noma 2, one of the world's most famous restaurants. Completed by Big last year, the timber-lined dining room is housed in [...] read full article below

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