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Nestled within the centuries-old Great Forest, Nagyerdő, in Debrecen, the new Hungarian Natural History Museum is envisioned as three overlapping ribbons that gently rise from the forest floor to form a new public and scientific destination. Commissioned by the museum and the Ministry of Culture and Innovation, the new museum replaces the current institution in Budapest, supporting the government’s vision to establish Debrecen as a key regional hub for education and culture by 2030. With a mass timber structure and charred timber facade, the museum is partially sunken into the ground and emerges from the ground to visually blend into its park surroundings, while its sloping roofscape invites public access and offers expansive views of the city. “Natural history is a subject dear to me – so dear that I named my oldest son Darwin. To that end, it is a great honor to have been entrusted with the authorship of the Hungarian Natural History Museum in the great forest of Debrecen. Our design is conceived as an intersection of paths and lineages. Intersecting ribbons of landscape overlap to produce a series of niches and habitats, halls and galleries, blending the inside and the outside, the intimate and the mastodontic in seamless continuity. The result is a manmade hill in a forest clearing; geometrically clear yet softly organic - an appropriate home for the wonders of the natural world.” - Bjarke Ingels, Founder and Creative Director, BIG 📸 by BIG Vikár and Lukács Architects Studio Museum Studio TYPSA #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Architecture #Roofscape #Hungary #Debrecen2030 Debrecen Infrastructure Development (DIF)

Wildflower Studios has won Best Industrial & Logistics Project at the 2025 MIPIM Awards! 🎬🏆 Designed by BIG and developed by Wildflower LTD with actor and film producer Robert De Niro, Raphael de Niro, and film producer Jane Rosenthal, Wildflower Studios is a commercial film studio situated just two miles from Manhattan in the Ditmars-Steinway neighborhood of Astoria, Queens. As the first immersive environment of its kind in New York City for filmed entertainment, the new vertical media production village is home to storytellers working across all mediums - a three-dimensional hub of collaboration, creativity, and innovation. A huge thank you to the MIPIM jury and everyone who voted for the project – we are honored! 📸 Jonathan Morefield / Field Condition Thornton Tomasetti Sherwood Design Engineers Altieri Janson Tsai Design Associates Lerch Bates Inc. Dot Dash | Architectural Lighting Design CCI Dirtworks Landscape Architecture TMS Waterfront #BuckmanEngineering Shen Milsom & Wilke Cini-Little International, Inc. YuiDesign #NorthernDesigns The Slowdown Entro Allegion FST Technical Services #WildflowerFilmStudiosAstoria #WildflowerStudios #BIGArchitecture #filmstudioarchitecture #MIPIM #MIPIMAwards #BjarkeIngelsGroup #entertainmentindustry

Rendering or reality? Located on Japan's remote Sagi Island, NOT A HOTEL Setouchi brings three villas to the island's southwestern cape with panoramic views of the Seto Inland Sea. The resort weaves naturally through the remote island’s mountains, referencing both traditional Danish and Japanese architecture. "Setouchi comprises a dense and dramatic archipelago, characterized by beautiful undulating silhouettes of mountainous islands. Our approach for this design aims to simultaneously expand and enhance the vast panoramic views of the archipelago while creating moments of intimacy and privacy through minimal architectural interventions. NOT A HOTEL Setouchi fuses the essence of BIG and modern Danish architecture with the DNA of NOT A HOTEL and traditional Japanese culture." - Ryohei Koike, Associate, BIG 📸 Mir., LIT NOT A HOTEL, Inc. #MAEDACorporation Arup 1Moku Landscape Design and Research #BOCS #NOSIGHT #Mir #LITDesign #NOTAHOTEL #Japan #Setouchi #SagiIsland #travel #travellust #travelinspiration #asiatravel #instatravel #wanderlust #BIGArchitecture #BjarkeIngelsGroup #hospitality #hospitalitydesign

In the past two years alone, more than 40 architecture and creative firms have signed leases in Dumbo, Brooklyn. If you’re interested in joining the creative scene in the neighborhood, reach out to press@big.dk to learn about renting space in our NYC studio! https://lnkd.in/eMGYY3cb Team Dumbo Patrick Sisson #BIG #NYC #Dumbo #CreativeWorkspace #OfficeSpace #Brooklyn

Hvordan kan arkitekter og brancheeksperter udnytte livscyklusvurdering (LCA) til at skabe ægte bæredygtige bygninger? 🌍 Deltag i NTI Sustainability Summit den 25. marts, hvor vi undersøger, hvordan LCA-værktøjer understøtter bedre beslutningstagning inden for bæredygtigt design. 🏗️ Andrea Hektor, direktør hos BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, deler indsigt fra deres bæredygtige projekter og viser, hvordan LCA kan forbedre beslutningsprocessen. 📊 Martin Romby Hauge, CTO, giver et dybdegående indblik i en effektiv og samarbejdsbaseret LCA-proces med Real-Time LCA – fra beregninger til certificeringer og lovgivningsoverholdelse. NTI Sustainability Summit – Fra data til handling! 📅 25. marts 🕒 10-16 (GMT+1) 💻 Online event 🗣️ Sprog: Engelsk Tilmeld dig gratis her: https://lnkd.in/dDTUQQwy #NTISustainabilitySummit #LCA #BæredygtigtDesign #GrøntByggeri

"Concrete - From fluid fantasy to concrete reality," the third issue of Domus guest edited by Bjarke Ingels, explores the future of architecture's most fundamental yet controversial material. In this issue, Leah Ellis from Sublime Systems writes about innovating low-carbon cement through electrochemical processes while Jason Ballard from ICON is automating construction with 3D-printed neighborhoods and first settlements on the Moon. An interview with Ensamble Studio discusses the oxymoronic nature of concrete in their factory, where they rehearse full scale construction. Christian Kerez has turned parking structures into iconic undulating surfaces and Chenchow Little Architects have created an intimate dwelling with monolithic elements. Julien De Smedt and Keisuke Oka are investigating the limitless formal freedoms while Katja Schenker is using concrete to contain found objects like giant blocks of nougat. Get your copy now: https://loom.ly/Nr8Ncns Cover by Huguet and Andrew Zuckerman Thank you to the contributors: Sam Lubell, Greg Goldin, Leah Ellis, Jason Ballard, Philippe Block, Alessandro Dell'Endice, Francesco Ranaudo, Tom Van Mele, Ensamble Studio, Antón Garcia-Abril, Débora Mesa, Christian Kerez, Alejandro Aravena, Thomas Phifer and Partners, HARQUITECTES, Tham & Videgård arkitekter, Chenchow Little Architects, Pezo Von Ellrichshausen, JDSA - JDS ARCHITECTS, MBL architectes, Studio MOTO, Keisuke Oka, Laurian Ghinitoiu, Katja Schenker Deputy Editor: Shane Dalke BIG Team: Filippo Cartapani, GIULIA FRITTOLI

Step inside the future home of the Athletics MLB team in Las Vegas! ⚾ Designed by BIG in collaboration with HNTB, the 33,000-capacity covered ballpark will sit on nine acres between Tropicana Avenue and Reno Avenue, incorporating modern amenities while drawing inspiration from historic parks like Fenway and Wrigley. The multipurpose venue features split upper and lower bowls to bring fans closer to the action than traditional ballparks, providing clear sight lines from every seat. The venue is expected to break ground later this year, with an anticipated opening in spring 2028. 📸 Negativ Thornton Tomasetti Henderson Engineers CAA ICON #MortensonConstruction McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. RWDI Kimley-Horn Systematica #WJHW Jensen Hughes HKA VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION CONSULTING - GLOBAL VT CONSULTING EXCELLENCE SINCE 1999 WSP FP&C Consultants KC, LLC Chicago Flyhouse, Inc Duray/JF Duncan Industries #EdRoetherConsulting Major League Baseball (MLB) #Athletics #MLB #AthleticsBallparkLasVegas #AthleticsBallpark #LasVegas #As #BIGArchitecture #SportsStadiumDesign #BjarkeIngelsGroup #BIG #AthleticsLasVegas #baseball

Blending Bhutan's craft tradition with modern innovation, the new Gelephu International Airport – designed in collaboration with NACO, Netherlands Airport Consultants – is designed for mindful travel and future expansion, set against a backdrop of Bhutan’s lush subtropical forests, mountains, and rivers. The airport’s diagrid structure is crafted from locally and sustainably sourced timber and adorned with painted wood carvings by local artists inspired by the ‘Kachen,’ a wooden pillar found in Bhutanese architecture revered for its structural significance and intricate design. "An airport is the first and last impression you get of a place you visit. For the Gelephu International Airport, we have tried to embody the nature and culture of the country and the Mindfulness City. The forests that cover the highlands are allowed to flow from the arrival plaza through the airport all the way to the tarmac. Tropical trees provide shade for travelers, and the forest courtyard lines the main functions of immigration, security, and luggage. The airport architecture is composed of modular mass timber frames providing flexibility and expandability, resembling a stylized mountain range at a distance. Upon closer inspection, all the mass timber members are carved and colored according to traditional craft, adorned with three types of dragons representing the past, present, and future of Bhutan. The result is traditional yet avant-garde, forward-reaching and rooted. For me personally, this unusual embrace of traditional craft and color is a true testament to how affected I have been by my encounter with Bhutan - the country, its culture, and its people." - Bjarke Ingels, Founder & Creative Director, BIG The Gelephu Airport’s design will be showcased at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Ancient Future in May and exhibited until September. The airport is expected to open in 2029. Gelephu Mindfulness City MQDC - Magnolia Quality Development Corporation #ChangiAirportPlannersandEngineers InFluit AS WT (Asia) #GelephuMindfulnessCity #GMC #AirportDesign  #Bhutan #BIG #BIGLandscape #BjarkeIngelsGroup #BIGArchitecture

And we have liftoff 🚀🌕 The first ever lunar data center, the Freedom Data Center, has officially left Earth from NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Kennedy Space Center! Designed by BIG for Lonestar Data Holdings Inc., the Freedom Data Center launched into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and will arrive on the Moon via Intuitive Machines' Athena IM-2 Lunar Lander. The 26 x 17 cm prototype can store up to 8 TB of data and features the profiles of two U.S. astronauts: Charlie Duke, moonwalking Apollo 16 astronaut, and Nicole Stott, the spacewalking International Space Station astronaut. Set to land on the Moon’s south pole, the data center will rely on solar energy during the lunar day and cease operation at lunar nightfall, while the profiles of Duke and Scott will continue to cast everlasting shadows on the surface of the Moon. As BIG’s first built project to enter space, the Freedom Data Center marks the initial step in space becoming a recognized home for data management. SpaceBilt #CharlieDuke #NicoleStott #FreedomDataCenter #LonestarDataCenter #AthenaLunarLander #BIGOnTheMoon #SpaceInnovation #DataInSpace #BjarkeIngelsGroup #BIG #BIGProducts #DataCenters #DataManagement #ProductDesign #SpaceLaunch #3dPrinting

Nestled along the Suzhou waterfront, the Jinji Lake Pavilion merges the traditional Chinese courtyard typology with the offerings of a modern public space. Designed in collaboration with Arts Group, the pavilion is one of eleven permanent structures developed as part of the city’s initiative to create a vibrant and welcoming waterfront. Four distinct buildings are interconnected to form a gathering space, with elevated roofs framing double-height entrances drawing visitors into a central courtyard. From here, guests can access a coffee shop, boutique, restaurant and visitor center, offering a resting point for walkers along the 13-km Jinji Lake trail. "The Jinji Lake Pavilion is conceived as a family of public rooms arranged under a single unifying canopy. Evoking the architecture of traditional Chinese teahouses, the glazed ceramic tiled roof is replaced by actual glass tiles, taking the concept of lightness and transparency to another level, and blurring the distinction between indoor and outdoor - garden and architecture. Like a little sister to the Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, the Jinji Lake Pavilion seeks to reimagine the future architecture and landscape of the Lake District rooted in the rich heritage of Suzhou's Chinese garden architecture." - Bjarke Ingels, Founder & Creative Director, BIG 📸 Justin Szeremeta