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Quiet moments at the BIG HQ in Copenhagen, captured by Stijn Poelstra 🎥

As part of our practice of adaptive reuse, we revisit FLUGT - Refugee Museum of Denmark, which opened in 2022 on the historic site of Denmark’s largest World War II refugee camp. Adapting and extending one of the camp’s few remaining structures - a former hospital building - the 1,600-m² museum honors the stories of refugees worldwide. From outside, the abstract volume welcomes visitors into what appears to be a closed entry hall. Upon entering, a floor-to-ceiling curved glass wall reveals a view of a sheltered green courtyard and the forest, where the refugee camp used to be. White walls and intersections covered in angled white painted wood boards appear throughout the museum, while yellow bricks span across the entire floor, connecting past and present structures. "From the very beginning of the design process, it was vital for us and our client, Vardemuseerne, to preserve the two hospital buildings. The buildings are some of the last remaining physical manifestations of the former refugee camp, and not only is their preservation invaluable for future generations to understand the past and the present, the buildings also directly informed our design of the extension by means of their unique elongated form, structure and materiality. FLUGT is a great example of how adaptive reuse can result in sustainable, functional buildings that preserve our shared history while standing out architecturally." - Frederik Lyng, Partner & Project Leader, BIG 📸 Rasmus Hjortshøj Vardemuseerne #Ingeniørne Tinker imagineers #BIGLandscape #BIGIdeas Gade & Mortensen Akustik A/S HB Schack A/S #AdaptiveReuse #BIGArchitecture #MuseumArchitecture #FLUGT #RefugeeMuseum #Denmark

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Introducing Manresa Wilds - a bold new vision for Manresa Island in Norwalk, Connecticut. 🏭🌳 Situated on the site of a decommissioned power plant extending into the Long Island Sound, the formerly industrial Manresa Island will be transformed into Manresa Wilds, a dynamic community hub with a welcoming 125-acre publicly accessible park designed by SCAPE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DPC and three plant buildings at the heart of the site that will be adapted by BIG into a vibrant center for learning, exploration, and play. The design will preserve key aspects of the existing power plant, including the structural framework, smokestack, and administrative space, and will include event spaces, learning labs, and programming centered around water. “For the first time in 75 years, the Manresa Wilds site and its legacy power station will reconnect the Norwalk community with the Long Island Sound. Together with Manresa Island Corporation, SCAPE, and our design partners, we’ve listened closely to how the community wants to experience this time-honored site. By preserving and reimagining the historic power station structures, we can turn a former engine of industry into a new kind of public framework and supportive anchor for the park. This shift from energy infrastructure to social infrastructure allows us to celebrate the history of the site while creating a forward-looking hub for research, exploration, and connection - a gift for generations to come.” - Daniel Sundlin, Partner, BIG 📷 Pixelflakes, SCAPE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DPC, BIG Manresa Island Corp Atelier Ten TYLin Kohler Ronan #CCI Tighe & Bond eDesign Dynamics AKRF Directional Logic HR&A Advisors #ManresaIsland #ManresaWilds #adaptivereuse #BIGArchitecture #publicspace #communityspace #culturalspace

The July-August issue of Domus, guest edited by Bjarke Ingels, turns its focus to “Fabric and Plastic – Soft Sidekicks for Solid Structures” in an exploration of textiles, membranes, and pliable surfaces as vital architectural agents. In this issue, Alejandro Zaera-Polo examines façades as both environmental interface and cultural expression and Petra Blaisse shares her experiences of textiles and fabrics, color and patterns. Nick Tidball shares how fashion can be a testbed for material experimentation and wearable architecture, while José Selgas and Lucía Cano of SelgasCano reflect on their early fascination with industrial readymades. MAD explores fabric at two scales - a tensile stadium and a single-occupant bubble, Increments Studio and Practice on Earth constructs layered shells that rethink softness as structure. MVRDV weaves recycled plastic into a public carpet for Bangkok, while Wolfgang Volz documents the poetic precision of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s temporary monuments. Willo Perron crafts immersive atmospheres for performance and identity, and Do Ho Suh reconstructs memory and migration in translucent, sewn architecture. Cover by Vollebak and ANDREW ZUCKERMAN STUDIO INC Thank you to the contributors: Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Petra Blaisse, Nick Tidball, selgascano, MAD, allmannwappner gmbh, Menges Scheffler Architekten, Jan Knippers Ingenieure, Practice on Earth, Increments Studio, Maio Architects, FRPO - Rodriguez & Oriel, MVRDV, Giullermo Santomà, TEST, ERASED STUDIO, Wolfgang Volz, WILLO PERRON LLC, Studio Niko Koronis, Charlotte Kingsnorth, Finemateria, DO HO SUH STUDIOS LLP, Andrés Reisinger, Vanessa Barragão, Christoph Niemann Deputy Editor: Shane Dalke BIG Team: Filippo Cartapani, GIULIA FRITTOLI DOMUS Team: Walter Mariotti, Loredana Mascheroni, Francesco Franchi, Elena Sommariva

Last month, we turned our headquarters in Copenhagen into a live showcase of material exploration through products, prototypes and objects. On our ground floor, a curated display featured prototypes for 1966, a collection of lava stone tables created with NeroSicilia; Shylights by Dutch duo Studio Drift; a new tile collection for Huguet Mallorca; barstools developed in collaboration with Muller Van Severen & Valerie Objects; Stellar Nebula lamps designed for Artemide - featuring the new 160mm size; and a solid travertine timepiece designed in collaboration with SolidNature and Humans since 1982. Extending to the 6th floor, a material library presented a collection of 55 cubes in stone, earth, concrete, metal, glass, wood, and fabric. Seven tables showcased the cover materials of the first seven Domus issues curated under Bjarke Ingels' guest editorship, each displaying the full-scale prototype used on its respective cover, engraved with the Domus logo and reflecting the material theme of the issue. A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by and of course, to all our collaborators and supporters - we couldn't have done this without you: Unicon A/S, NRDCL Thimphu, LASVIT, Huguet, Kvadrat, re-claim.dk, SolidNature, Petersen Tegl A/S, Nerosicilia, Langbjerg ApS, Søuld, Cymat Technologies Ltd, Humans since 1982, Dinesen, Muller Van Severen, Domus, Vollebak, MycoWorks, Bang & Olufsen, Sorensen Leather, valerie_objects, studioDRIFT, Tækkefirmaet Kim Andersen, Artemide, HavnensHænder 📸 YongwonJ 3daysofdesign #MATERIALISM #BIG #DesignExhibition

Vi er beærede over at være udvalgt til at transformere Ørestadens byrum til ét samlet landskab af lys, vand og liv 🌟 I samarbejde med Doug Aitken Workshop, NIRAS, VOLCANO og RWDI forener The Impact tre centrale byrum omkring DR Koncerthuset, Bella Arena og Royal Arena og skaber en fælles urban scene for hverdag og performance. Projektet fjerner dele af den eksisterende belægning for at blotlægge og genaktivere de underliggende økosystemer og skabe plads til beplantning, fællesskab og bevægelse. The Impact er skabt med fokus på genanvendte materialer, lokal regnvandshåndtering og robuste, hjemmehørende beplantninger, og har en beregnet CO₂-påvirkning på mindre end 0.1 kg pr. m² pr. år. I stedet for at designe tre separate pladser, samles de i et sammenhængende landskabskunstværk. I centrum løber en skulpturel ‘revne’ gennem landskabet og fører vand, lys og bevægelse på tværs af området. Revnen krydser alle tre pladser og danner en fysisk og visuel tråd, der binder dem sammen til én samlet fortælling. ”Det er med stor glæde, at vi vender tilbage til Ørestaden, 15 år efter at vi færdiggjorde 8-tallet. Denne gang med henblik på at puste liv mellem husene. Med "The Impact" har vi valgt en tilgang, som rammer de perfekte, færdige overflader som et meteornedslag, der skaber plads til livet og undtagelsen, naturen og kulturen. Som en slags urban Kintsugi – den japanske kunstart, hvor man reparerer knust keramik med guld – vil sprækkerne og brudfladerne udgøre en form for accelereret patinering af den ellers meget nye bydel. Med Leonard Cohens ord: "There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."” – Bjarke Ingels, Grundlægger og Kreativ Direktør i BIG 📸 PLAY-TIME Barcelona, Ping-Pong Space og BIG By & Havn DR - Danmarks Radio Bellagroup Bellakvarter Live Nation Danmark Metroselskabet Orestad Innovation City Copenhagen Københavns Kommune

In Seville, the European Commission has broken ground on the Joint Research Center ☀️ Rooted in the principles of the New European Bauhaus, the dome-shaped building will be powered by an energy-generating canopy of solar panels that shades a central square, garden and research spaces beneath. Developed in collaboration with HCP Architecture & Engineering, Buro Happold and Grupo Argenia, the research center will be built using local limestone, wood and ceramics. The groundbreaking was marked by an event in Seville, opened by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and joined by Commissioners Ekaterina Zaharieva and Jessika Roswall, regional leaders, and BIG Founder & Creative Director Bjarke Ingels, who presented the design for the new campus. The Joint Research Center is slated for completion in 2028. 📸 Renderings by BARBAR, FUSAO and BIG

Big news from Las Vegas: The Athletics' new ballpark, designed by BIG and HNTB, has officially broken ground! 🏜️⚾️ The 33,000-capacity A's Ballpark is designed to echo the vibrancy of its surroundings in ‘The Entertainment Capital of the World.’ Framing views of The Strip, the ballpark's expansive cable-net glass wall creates an open, outdoor feel, inviting the energy of Las Vegas inside. The roof, composed of five overlapping shells inspired by baseball pennants, serves as a tribute to the sport’s legacy while defining the ballpark’s silhouette. These arched “pennants” attenuate direct sunlight glare and welcome indirect natural light through north-facing clerestory windows. By day, the structure’s metal cladding shimmers under the desert sun; at night, it reflects the dazzling lights of the city. “This groundbreaking is a great milestone for our almost decade-long collaboration with the A’s. It marks the end of a long journey to find the new home for the A’s, and on a personal note, the groundbreaking of our first baseball stadium. The A’s Armadillo is unlike any other ballpark, and will not only be a great home for the team and the sport, but also a striking new architectural character in the string of pearls along the Las Vegas Strip.” - Bjarke Ingels, Founder & Creative Director, BIG Set to open ahead of the 2028 Major League Baseball (MLB) season, the ballpark is designed in collaboration with Thornton Tomasetti, Henderson Engineers, CAA ICON, Mortenson, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., and more. 📸 Athletics, Negativ Atelier Ten #RWDI Kimley-Horn Systematica #WJHW Jensen Hughes HKA VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION CONSULTING WSP FP&C Consultants KC, LLC Chicago Flyhouse, Inc Duray/JF Duncan Industries #EdRoetherConsulting MOREAN GmbH #Mir #Athletics #MLB #AthleticsBallpark #LasVegas #As #BIGArchitecture #SportsStadiumDesign #BjarkeIngelsGroup #BIG #AthleticsLasVegas #baseball #SportsArchitecture

“Wood – Low-Carbon Renaissance,” the sixth issue of Domus curated by Bjarke Ingels, explores the renewed cultural and architectural relevance of timber - the world’s oldest building material, reimagined for a decarbonized future. In this issue, Shigeru Ban reflects on decades of pioneering in timber, paper and cardboard construction. Lucas Epp of StructureCraft explores ways to combine traditional craft with sophisticated automated manufacturing for a new era of timber structures. Studio Precht applies Austrian craft and know-how to a global sensibility. Sou Fujimoto transforms the ephemerality of wood into urban monument with his Grand Ring for Expo Osaka, while Herzog & de Meuron, Elding Oscarson and Sigurd Larsen explore the ambient warmth and spatial intelligence of timber – from anti-tectonic stillness in Basel to expressive domes, shells and pitched roofs. Giuseppe Penone, Peter Marigold and Tadanori Tozawa trace the secret life of trees, unveiling nervous systems, inner geometries and split trunks as vessels of memory and transformation. And in Venice, BIG’s Ancient Future installation shows an oxymoronic collaboration between hand and machine, with a prototype seizing robotic innovation to preserve Bhutanese heritage. Cover by Dinesen and Andrew Zuckerman Thank you to the contributors: Lindsey Wikstrom, Shigeru Ban Architects, Lucas Epp, Studio Precht, Sou Fujimoto Atelier Paris, KENGO KUMA & ASSOCIATES, Herzog & de Meuron, Elding Oscarson, Sigurd Larsen Architekten, KGDVS, Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados, Studio Christian Wassmann, Monica Grau Steffensen, Peter Marigold, Studio Onno Adriaanse, Ferruccio Laviani, Giuseppe Penone, Chris Kenny Deputy Editor: Shane Dalke BIG Team: Filippo Cartapani, GIULIA FRITTOLI DOMUS Team: Walter Mariotti, Loredana Mascheroni, Francesco Franchi, Elena Sommariva