| Real name: | Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels | | Born: | 02 October 1974 Comment | | How old is Bjarke Ingels in 2024? / Age: | 49 years
| | Where was Bjarke Ingels born? | Copenhagen, Denmark | | Zodiac sign: | Libra |
Bjarke Ingels Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| | How much is Bjarke Ingels worth? | Under review
| | Nationality: | Dannish | | Hair color: | Brown | | Eyes color: | Brown |
Who is Bjarke Ingels? / Facts
- He is the founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) since 2005
- He is known for buildings that defy traditional architectural conventions and dimensions, ranging from representations of mountains to snowflakes
- His designs incorporate sustainable development ideas and sociological concepts, along with sloped lines that are shaped to their surroundings
- In Denmark, he became known for designing two housing complexes in Ørestad: VM Houses and Mountain Dwellings
- In 2006 he started his own architecture firm, Bjarke Ingels Group, which grew to a staff of 400 by 2015
- Some of their best known projects are the 8 House housing complex, a zero-emission resort on Zira Island in Azerbaijan described as "one of the world's largest eco-developments", the VIA (West 57) apartments in Manhattan, the Google North Bayshore headquarters (co-designed with Thomas Heatherwick), the Superkilen park; and the Amager Bakke waste-to-energy plant
- Since 2009, Ingels has won numerous architectural competitions
- In October 2011, the Wall Street Journal named him the Innovator of the Year for architecture
- He moved to New York City in 2012, where in addition to the VIA apartments, BIG won a design contest for improving Manhattan's flood resistance after Hurricane Sandy, and are designing the new Two World Trade Center building
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Education
- Polytechnic University of Catalonia (1999)
- Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Quotes
- Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.
- In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.
- My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.
- All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
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Knud Bundgaard Jensen, Elisabet Ingels
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