Bjarke Ingels

Bjarke Ingels ( born October 2, 1974 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish architect. Since 2006 he leads the architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group, based in Copenhagen. In 2009 he co-founded the design agency KiBiSi. Ingels ' designs are characterized by very clear, often bold and pragmatic ideas connected with a playful approaches from.

Biography

Bjarke Ingels studied until its completion in 1998 architecture at the Royal Danish Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole in Copenhagen and at the Escola Tecnica Superior d' Arquitectura in Barcelona. From 1998 to 2001 he worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture for Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam.

Bjarke Ingels founded in 2001 together with his former colleague Julien de Smedt Belgian the architecture firm PLOT in Copenhagen. The office excited with very innovative designs early international attention. On the Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2004, they received the Golden Lion for the design of a concert hall in Stavanger, Norway. 2005 PLOT won his first major competition with the VM Houses project. Despite the great success, the partners separated in 2006 and founded the offices Bjarke Ingels Group / BIG and JDS / JULIEN DE SMEDT ARCHITECTS.

Bjarke Ingels Group

Bjarke Ingels continued to follow the ideology of PLOT and realized some significant projects, including the housing 8- Taller in Ørestad and the new Danish National Museum of navigation in Elsinore.

As a " BIG" Ingels published in 2009 and the architecture Comic " Yes is more - to be archived comic on architectural evolution" for the exhibition of the same title in the Danish Architectural Centre in Copenhagen.

Buildings and Projects (selection)

  • VM House, Mountain House, 8 House, Ørestad in Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Faroe Islands Education Centre, Torshavn, Faroe Islands ( Competition Success, December 2009)
  • World Village of Women Sports, Malmö, Sweden ( competition success, November 2009).
  • Shenzhen International Energy Mansion, Shenzhen, China ( competition success, September 2009 )
  • Astana National Library, Astana, Kazakhstan (competition success, August 2009)
  • New Tallinn City Hall, Tallinn, Estonia ( competition success, June 2009)
  • Department store channel, Hamburg, Germany (competition success, April 2009 )
  • New Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (Competition Success, April 2009 )
  • Danish Expo Pavilion, Expo 2010, Shanghai, China
  • Mountain Dwellings, Ørestad in Copenhagen, Denmark ( completed in 2008)
  • VM Houses, Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark (completed 2005)
  • Maritime Youth House, Amager, Denmark (completed 2004)
  • Islands Brygge Harbour Bath, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2,500 sqm (completed in 2003)

Awards

  • 2011 Kronprinsparrets Kulturpris ( Culture Prize of the Danish Crown Prince and Princess )
  • 2009 ULI Award for Excellence ( for Mountain Dwellings )
  • MIPIM Award 2009 for Housing ( for Mountain Dwellings )
  • 2008 World Architecture Festival Award for Best Residential Building ( for Mountain Dwellings )
  • 2008 Forum AID Award " Best Building in Scandinavia in 2008" ( for Mountain Dwellings )
  • 2007 Contract World Award for Best Interior ( for Sjakket Headquarters)
  • 2007 IOC Honorable Mention - Islands Brygge Harbour Bath
  • 2007 Mies van der Rohe Award Traveling Exhibition - VM Houses
  • 2006 Forum AID Award " Best Building in Scandinavia in 2006" ( for VM Houses )
  • 2005 Mies van der Rohe Award - Special Mention ( for Maritime Youth House)
  • 2004 ar d award for the Maritime Youth House
  • 2004 Golden Lion, Venice Biennale (for the Stavanger Concert Hall )
  • 2003 Scanorama Design Award
  • 2003 Henning Larsen Prize
  • 2002 Nykredits Architecture Prize
  • 2001 Henning Larsen Prize

Exhibitions

  • 2010 Yes is More, CAPC, Bordeaux
  • 2010 Yes is More, CHANGING ROOM, Stuttgart
  • 2009 Yes is More, Danish Architecture Centre, Copenhagen
  • 2007 BIG City, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York

Publications

  • Yes is More: An Archi comic on Architectural Evolution, Copenhagen 2009, ISBN 978-87-992988-0-8
  • Yes is More bags etc. at Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8365-2524-4.
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