Bjarke Ingels' Serpentine Gallery Pavilion conceived as an "unzipped wall"
Bjarke Ingels' firm BIG has unveiled its design for this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, featuring a tall pointed structure made of interlocking fibreglass "bricks". More
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"Nobody plays with form as well as Bjarke Ingels"
Opinion: when it comes to headline-grabbing proposals, Bjarke Ingels and BIG are becoming increasingly hard to beat – and increasingly divisive among critics. Aaron Betsky explains why he's part of the BIG fan club. More
Nine of BIG's built architecture projects
This year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion will be designed by Bjarke Ingels' firm – a studio known for forward-thinking concepts and exciting ideas, but with only a handful of completed projects. Here's a look back at some of the ones built so far (+ slideshow). More
BIG to design Galeries Lafayette flagship on Paris' Champs-Élysées
French department store chain Galeries Lafayette has selected Danish architect Bjarke Ingels to design its new flagship shop on the Champs-Élysées. More
Bjarke Ingels to design Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2016
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels and his firm BIG have been selected to design this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, while four other studios will create accompanying summerhouses. More
BIG unveils designs for The Spiral office tower in New York
Bjarke Ingels Group has released a conceptual design for its latest project in New York, an office skyscraper wrapped in a ribbon of green terraces (+ movie). More
Bjarke Ingels impressed by "ingenuity and balls" of graduate's job application video
BIG founder Bjarke Ingels says he is "honestly impressed" by young job applicant Étienne Duval, whose covering letter is an animated rap that has become a YouTube sensation (+ movie). More
BIG's 8 House succeeds where the Smithsons' "streets in the sky" failed, says Bjarke Ingels
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels claims his Copenhagen housing development has accomplished the social mission Brutalist architects Alison and Peter Smithson set out to achieve with their "streets in sky" concept in the 1960s and 1970s. More
Competition: win tickets to the Royal Academy's Annual Architecture Lecture with Bjarke Ingels
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with London's Royal Academy of Arts to offer readers the chance to win two pairs of tickets to the RA's sold-out lecture with Bjarke Ingels. More
BIG wants to create new styles of vernacular architecture, says Bjarke Ingels
Bjarke Ingels has spoken of his desire to replace Modernism's "boring box" legacy with new kinds of localised architecture at a lecture at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (+ transcript). More
Bjarke Ingels to deliver the Royal Academy Annual Architecture Lecture 2015
Dezeen promotion: Danish architect Bjarke Ingels will be the youngest architect ever to deliver the Annual Architecture Lecture at London's prestigious Royal Academy of Arts. More
Google's new HQ will be "more like a workshop than a corporate office" says Bjarke Ingels
Exclusive: in this exclusive interview, BIG founder Bjarke Ingels talks about the spectacular new HQ he is co-designing for Google, which wants to set a new industry standard for workplace design and help define "Google 2.0" (+ movie). More
Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick to design Google's new California HQ
News: BIG and Heatherwick Studio are collaborating on a new headquarters building for Google in Mountain View, California. More
Architecture should be more like Minecraft, says Bjarke Ingels
Movie: the founder of architecture firm BIG explains his theory of "Worldcraft" – creating architecture that focuses on turning "surreal dreams into inhabitable space". More
"Lego proportions are the golden ratio of architecture," says Bjarke Ingels
News: construction has begun on the Lego visitor centre in Billund, Denmark, designed by architect Bjarke Ingels, who told Dezeen that Lego bricks provide the ultimate tool for testing architectural ideas (+ interview). More
BIG's combined power plant and ski slope is "turning science fiction into fact"
Movie: in the final part of our series of exclusive video interviews with Bjarke Ingels, the architect compares his design method to the family game of Twister and claims BIG's Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant will "transform people's perceptions" about public utility buildings. More
Big U storm defences "will secretly protect Manhattan from flooding" says Bjarke Ingels
Movie: Bjarke Ingels explains how the $335 million allocated to BIG's scheme to upgrade Manhattan's storm defences will be used to create a flood barrier disguised as a park in our second exclusive video interview with the Danish architect. More
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"BIG never makes any design decisions just for fun" says Bjarke Ingels
Movie: in the first of a series of exclusive video interviews with Bjarke Ingels, the Danish architect talks us through three of his practice BIG's current projects and explains why he considers diagrams to be such an important design tool. More
WSJ. Magazine announces winners of inaugural Innovator of the Year Awards
Dezeen Wire: artist Ai Weiwei, architect Bjarke Ingels and designer Joris Laarman are among the winners of WSJ. Magazine's first Innovator of the Year Awards, a prize honouring the world's most creative and progressive individuals. More