1. Bjarke Ingels moved to New York City in 2012, where in addition to the VIA 57 West, BIG won a design contest after Hurricane Sandy for improving Manhattan's flood resistance.
20 Facts About Bjarke Ingels
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Bjarke Ingels's father is an engineer and his mother is a dentist.
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Bjarke Ingels continued his studies at the Escola Tecnica Superior d'Arquitectura in Barcelona, and returned to Copenhagen to receive his diploma in 1999.
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Alongside his architectural practice, Bjarke Ingels has been a visiting professor at the Rice University School of Architecture, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and most recently, the Yale School of Architecture.
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From 1998 to 2001, Bjarke Ingels worked for Rem Koolhaas at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam.
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Bjarke Ingels received national and international attention for their inventive designs.
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Bjarke Ingels lived in the complex until 2008 when he moved into the adjacent Mountain Dwellings.
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Bjarke Ingels designed a pavilion in the shape of a loop for the Danish World Expo 2010 pavilion in Shanghai.
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In 2009, Bjarke Ingels designed the new National Library of Kazakhstan in Astana located to the south of the State Auditorium, said to resemble a "giant metallic doughnut".
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In 2012, Bjarke Ingels moved to New York to supervise work on a pyramid-like apartment building on West 57th Street, a collaboration with real estate developer Durst Fetner Residential.
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In 2014 Bjarke Ingels's design for an integrated flood protection system, the DryLine, was a winner of the Rebuild By Design competition created by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
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In 2015, Bjarke Ingels began working on a new headquarters for Google in Mountain View, California with Thomas Heatherwick, the British designer.
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In 2009, Bjarke Ingels became a co-founder of the KiBiSi design group, together with Jens Martin Skibsted and Lars Larsen.
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In 2009, Bjarke Ingels spoke at a TED event in Oxford, UK.
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Bjarke Ingels presented the case study "Hedonistic sustainability" in a workshop on managing complexity at the 3rd International Holcim Forum 2010 in Mexico City, and was a member of the Holcim Awards regional jury for Europe in 2011.
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Bjarke Ingels was cast in My Playground, a documentary film by Kaspar Astrup Schroder that explores parkour and freerunning, with much of the action taking place on and around BIG projects.
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Bjarke Ingels was part of the documentary film Genre de Vie, about bicycles, cities and personal awareness.
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Bjarke Ingels was profiled in the first season of the Netflix docu-series Abstract: The Art of Design.
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In 2014, Bjarke Ingels released a video entitled 'Worldcraft' as part of the Future of StoryTelling summit, which introduced his concept of creating architecture that focuses on turning "surreal dreams into inhabitable space".
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In 2015, Bjarke Ingels bought an apartment in New York's Dumbo neighborhood.