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News • News • 20 Sep 2023
HWKN makes its debut in the UK with an innovative office building concept at Canada Water Dockside
This month, London’s Southwark Council resolved to grant permission for detailed designs at Canada Water Dockside, a 1.5 million square foot commercially-led masterplan in Canada Water led by the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). Designed by New York-based office HWKN, A2 will be the first building constructed in the scheme. It will provide a new office typology in London that meets ambitious sustainability standards, including BREEAM.
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With a total of 240,000 square feet of space over 11 storeys, A2 emphasizes using contextual materials and providing distinctive spatial qualities. HWKN has designed the office building to include a wide range of diverse spaces that foster creativity and wellness. Building users can cho... More
News • News • 24 Apr 2023
Five visions for new US Navy Museum unveiled
Conceptual renderings from 5 architectural firms for a new National Museum of the United States Navy (NMUSN) campus have been unveiled. Responding to an artistic competition from the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) seeking concepts and ideas for the planned project, the 5 shortlisted firms (from a total of 37 submissions) are: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), DLR Group, Frank Gehry Partners, Perkins&Will, and Quinn Evans. The finalists’ designs are inspired by the Navy’s core values and attributes: strength, commitment, integrity, courage, honor, and initiative.
DoD photo illustration by: Bjarke Ingels Group / Rendering by Negativ
Located in Washington DC, the future state-of-the-art museum is envisioned by the... More
News • News • 28 Jul 2022
Biosphere by BIG features a façade of 350 birdhouses
Located in the Swedish Lapland, The Treehotel is known for its broad diversity of cabins, each having a distinctive identity that interacts with the unique surrounding forest environment. In collaboration with Treehotel and Swedish ornithologist Ulf Öhman, the new BIG-designed hotel room Biosphere will feature a façade of 350 birdhouses.
Courtesy of BIG
Called Biosphere, the motivation behind the hotel room concept is to decrease the downward spiral of the bird population in the Swedish forest, instead strengthening the biosphere and the natural habitat. It has been shown in the works of Swedish ornithologists and the Country Administrative Board that forest practices have resulted in a reduced numb... More
News • News • 3 Jul 2022
BIG unveils a playful, wooden, colourful factory for Vestre in the middle of the Norwegian woods
In Manor, Norway, The Plus is a new furniture factory by BIG for furniture manufacturer Vestre. Incorporating an Experience Centre and a 300-acre public park, the colourful development celebrates the clean, carbon-neutral fabrication of Vestre furniture, setting a high standard for manufacturing facilities and the high-efficiency production of the future.
Einar Aslaksen
A total of 7000 m2 in floor area, the production facility is constructed of local mass timber, low-carbon concrete, and recycled steel. Built in only 18 months, it is the first industrial building to achieve a BREEAM rating of Outstanding.
The building takes the form of a radial array of four main production halls. Within the arrays are a warehouse,... More
News • News • 1 Oct 2020
BIG unveil their vision for AI CITY
BIG offers the first glimpse of their proposed AI CITY. Located in Chongquing, also known as ‘mountain city,’ the hi-tech campus will host the headquarters of Terminus Group, the world-leading smart service provider. Dedicated to ‘artificial intelligence, robotics, networking, and big data,’ BIG’s proposal draws inspiration from the surrounding landscape.
Courtesy of Lucian R and BIG
The site of AI CITY is specifically situated within the Chongqing Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, with the 135,000m2 Cloud Valley anchoring the Science and Technology Headquarters in the first phase of the masterplan. BIG’s proposal for Cloud Valley is conceived as two plots that mimic each other’s opposites.... More
Project • By BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group • Libraries
The LEGO House
16-Oct-2017
“LEGO house is a literal manifestation of the infinite possibilities of the LEGO brick. Through systematic creativity children of all ages are empowered with the tools to create their own worlds and to inhabit them through play. At its finest – that is what architecture – and LEGO play – is all about: enabling people to imagine new worlds that are more exciting and expressive than the status quo – and to provide them with the skills to make them reality. This is what children do every day with LEGO bricks – and this is what we have done today at LEGO House with actual bricks, taking Billund a step closer towards becoming the Capital for Children.” Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner, BIG.
BIG and LEGO bring the toy scale of the... More
Product • By Atlas Filtri • DP BIG
DP BIG
Water filters DP BIG by Atlas Filtri are housings specifically designed for cartridges SX (DOE) with external diameter of 4.5”.
Thanks to the IN/OUT connections 1” and 1”1/2 with plastic thread GAS cylindrical (BSP) or conical type (NPT), the DP BIG adapt to any large capacity filtration requirement for home and industrial uses.
The DP BIG water filters are supplied with an opaque or transparent bowl 10” and 20” height and available in the versions MONO, DUO and TRIO, for a filtration sequence in series and single-block manifolds, without the risk of water losses.
Besides the standard models, the housings for DP BIG filters are also available in the versions:
- M with manometers even in the multi-stage versions
- S kit complete with d... More