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Bjarke’s 'BIG' October

date added: 19.11.2011

Bjarke Ingels with HRH Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark

While the economic outlook for many architects remains grim, some firms are thriving. One of those is the Danish architecture firm BIG. Just as architecture in the city was celebrated this October with a month-long bash chock full of activities, Ingels and his eponymous firm BIG had an busy month both making news and anticipating some of its own. At the close of September, BIG got word that it was short-listed along with AECOM, Hargreaves Associates, James Corner Field Operations, OLIN Partnership and Thomas Balsey Associates for a 27-acre bay front park in Corpus Christi, Texas, which we just learned was awarded to Hargreaves.

On October 1, Ingels was on hand to celebrate the launch of a new, New York-based architecture magazine, CLOG, the premiere issue of which focuses on his firm. Then on October 3, it was off to Cornell’s architecture school to deliver a lecture. Soon after came the announcement in Women’s Wear Daily that Ingles was among the winners of the Wall Street Journal’s magazine’s first ever awards program (to be celebrated next Thursday at MoMA) that honors “Innovators of the Year”. And, this past weekend, BIG threw a bash of its own in West Chelsea to celebrate, among other things, the official opening of its New York office.

Source: www.worldarchitecturenews.com

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