Home
a better world through creativity
  • Home
    • About Design Indaba
    • Design Indaba News
    • Projects
    • Press Room
  • Emerging Creatives
  • News & Features
    • Design News
    • Africa Now
    • Creative Work
    • Interviews
    • Next Generation
    • Design Frontiers
    • African Design
    • Design Activism
    • Videos
  • Conference Talks
    • Video Archive (2006 – present)
  • Designer Directory

    • Our database of African and international creatives and companies making waves in the design world.

BIG architects

  • The 2 WTC is the final marker of the revitalisation of Lower Manhattan.
    BIG architects unveils 2 World Trade Centre
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    Bjarke Ingels' 2 WTC is the capstone in the redevelopment of the World Trade Centre, restoring downtown Manhattan's storied skyline. >
    11 Jun 15
  • Honeycomb by Bjarke Ingels.
    Island style
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    The Honeycomb by Bjarke Ingels Group will create an environment for work, play and luxury unlike any other resort in the Bahamas. >
    28 Jan 14
  • AV Monograph 162: BIG 2001 to 2013 by Arquitectura Viva.
    Architecture at its best
    Reviews > Architecture & Interiors
    Arquitectura Viva's 162nd edition is a comprehensive monograph highlighting Bjarke Ingels Group's proactive and optimistic architecture. >
    9 Oct 13
  • Telus Sky by Bjarke Ingels.
    Reach for the sky
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    BIG Architects will be designing one of Canada's tallest buildings, which is to become a vibrant community for urban living and working. >
    26 Jul 13
  • BIG. Bjarke Ingels. Miami Beach Convention Centre.
    Urban redesign
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design
    Bjarke Ingels is the second contender to redevelop the iconic Miami Beach Convention Centre. >
    17 May 13
  • European city
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design
    Bjarke Ingels' "Europacity" will provide the Île-de-France community with a commercial and cultural hotspot. >
    22 Apr 13
  • Historical campus
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design
    Bjarke Ingels will lead a core design team to rethink and redesign the USA's Smithsonian Institution, making it more accessible to the public. >
    23 Mar 13
  • LEGO House
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    BIG Architects is set to design the first public museum for LEGO. >
    21 Mar 13
  • Coconut twist
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    BIG's Coco Grove at Grand Bay proposes to breathe fresh life into Miami through style and elegance for decades to come. >
    3 Jan 13
  • Spiralling tower
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    Adding a significant structure to the Phoenix skyline, BIG Architects blend form and function for the "Phoenix Observation Tower". >
    20 Dec 12
  • Bjarke Ingels at Design Indaba 2012
    Bjarke Ingels: Users are the experts in architecture
    Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors
    For Bjarke Ingels users are the experts when it comes to understanding how to design a building for a specific function. >
    14 Sep 12
  • Bjarke Ingels on the expanded role of the architect
    Bjarke Ingels on the expanded role of the architect
    Talks > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design
    For Bjarke Ingels, architects are more than just designers of beautiful facades. He considers the expanded role of architects in contemporary society. >
    13 Sep 12
  • Air + Port
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    BIG Architects conceptualises an integrated transport superhighway for Greenland, as the country takes its place on the global economic map. >
    6 Sep 12
  • Blaavand Bunker Museum
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    BIG Architects' Blaavand Bunker Museum relooks the bunkers that were built by German forces in Denmark during World War II. >
    28 Aug 12
  • Road to Méca
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    BIG Architects' new Méca building in Bordeaux, France, allows for cultural interactions and enjoyment in a public urban space. >
    27 Jun 12
  • Cross # Towers by Bjarke Ingels Group
    Cross # Towers
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    The hashtag shape of a new apartment block in Korea, by BIG Architects, is not inspired by the Twittersphere, but a response to height restrictions. >
    9 May 12
  • The architectural anarchy of BIG's Beach and Howe tower
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    Plans for the Vancouver tower optimise complex conditions to create a landmark with minimal footprint and maximum innovation in design. >
    18 Apr 12
  • Urban intersections
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    BIG Architects have won a competition to turn a large concrete warehouse in Basel, Switzerland, into a mixed-use arts district. >
    14 Nov 11
  • 8 House (2010) by Bjarke Ingels Group
    Shapes of eight
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    The 8 House allows people to bike all the way from the street to the 10th level penthouses. >
    25 Jun 11
  • Factory visit
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    BIG Architects introduce industrial factory to leisure activities in the name of sustainable awareness in Denmark. >
    5 Feb 11
  • Jens Martin Skibsted
    Jens Martin Skibsted
    Jens Martin Skibsted is a philosopher, entrepreneur, brand expert, poet and revolutionary. He is also a cutting-edge bicycle designer >
    18 Nov 10
Sign up to our newsletter
Sign up to Design Indaba Weekly for the latest design news and inspiration. Sign up to Design Indaba News for updates on Design Indaba events and projects.
Design Indaba (select one or both)

Top Features

  • Video Interviews
  • Inside View

Regulars

  • Take Five
    6 clever design solutions for pressing healthcare issues
    28 Nov 19
  • Singapore flag
    Focus On
    Five examples of great design from Singapore
    17 Sep 18
  • Work of Luke Rudman
    Lookbook
    A look into the work of Luke Rudman
    3 Feb 22
  • Directed by Amirah Tajdin, “Minerva’s Lillie’s” is a personal portrait of femininity, sisterhood, magic and mothers.
    FilmFestFriday
    This short film is a meditation on the joys girlhood
    12 Feb 16

TwitterFollow @designindaba

Tweets by @designindaba

  • About
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Submit Work
  • Login
  • Sitemap
  • Terms of Use
Design Indaba®, Cape Town Design Week® and South African Design Week® are registered trademarks of Interactive Africa.
Design Indaba is the founding event of Cape Town Design Festival™ and South African Design Festival™.
© 1995 - 2025 | Design Indaba. All Rights Reserved.