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Danish architecture firm BIG recently unveiled the Qianhai Prisma Towers in Shenzhen, China, both composed of leaning volumes that taper toward the sky. The skyscrapers, which will rise on either side of Shenz...

Designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group  'The Smile’ is a mixed-use development in New York's Harlem neighborhood with a stainless-steel facade that recalls the "textured surface of the moon". Named for its cur...

For the first time, two human passengers have traveled in one of Virgin's levitating hyperloop pod, which was sent at 100 miles per hour through a near-airless tunnel in the Nevada desert. "For the past few ye...

After years of testing and developing hyperloop technology at their full-scale test site, Virgin Hyperloop has announced that the US state of West Virginia will be home to the Hyperloop Certification Center (HC...

BIG Architects and 3D-printed building company ICON have announced their partnership on Project Olympus, which aims to develop robotic construction on the moon. The architecture firm and SEArch+ (Space Explora...

BIG Architects has unveiled BiodiverCity, a three artificial islands masterplan built off the shore of Penang Island, Malaysia, connected by an autonomous transport network. "Our masterplan proposal – Biod...

Bjarke Ingels Group and Norwegian manufacturer or urban furniture Vestre have unveiled The Plus, a new project set to become the world's most sustainable furniture factory tucked in the heart of the Norwegian f...

At this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Toyota has revealed plans to build a prototype "city" of the future on a 175-acre site at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan. Called the Woven City, i...

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG Architects) has unveiled The Portico, a 53,500-square-meters development with workspace and public amenities, designed on the last two remaining plots of the CityLife masterplan in Mila...

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG Architects) has completed the Panda House at the heart of Copenhagen Zoo. The home for the two giant pandas, Mao Sun and Xing Er, resembles the panda’s natural habitat and creates a p...

Following the WeWork’s WeGrow in New York and the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Bajarke Ingels Group (BIG) has now completed another school project in the US state ...

CopenHill, also known as Amager Bakke, has opens as a new breed of waste-to-energy plant topped with a ski slope, hiking trail and climbing wall, embodying the notion of hedonistic sustainability while aligning...

Traversing the winding Randselva river, BIG’s first project in Norway, The Twist, opens as an inhabitable bridge torqued at its center, forming a new journey and art piece within the Kistefos Sculpture Park i...

Bjarke Ingels Group and FREAKS freearchitects have completed a major new cultural venue, called MÉCA, in southwestern France. The new 18,000 m2 Maison de l’Économie Créative et de la Culture en Aquitaine, ...

Bjarke Ingels Group has conceived a "retail laboratory" for French department store Galeries Lafayette inside an art-deco bank building from 1932 on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The space is designed to func...

For this year's Milan Design Week, Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group has teamed up once again with Italian light brand Artemide to present La Linea, a flexible tube of light, capable to freely twist ...

Designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and Architect of Record Goody Clancy, the copper clad Business Innovation Hub at the heart of the University of Massachusetts Amherst adds 70,000SF of hyper-collaborative stu...

Architecture firm BIG has unveiled a concept for a floating city designed to withstand natural disasters like floods, tsunamis, and hurricanes. Co-convened with OCEANIX, the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering and...

Bjarke Ingels Group has created a miniature, indoor natural ecosystem for co-working company WeWork’s first school, which has opened in New York on 5 September 2018, in time for the stat of the new academic ...

Bjarke Ingels Group has completed Dortheavej Residence, an affordable housing complex in Copenhagen made up of prefabricated modules stacked on top of one another. Named after its Dortheavej address in the nor...

Since its opening, noma has been at the forefront of gastronomy and creativity. The restaurant, recognized four times as best in the world by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, last year closed its doors to t...