This week we took a sneak peak at BIG HQ

This week on Dezeen, we revealed photos of structure studio BIG’s new headquarters because it nears completion in Copenhagen harbour.

Named BIG HQ, the seven-storey workplace block is positioned on the tip of a pier in Copenhagen’s Nordhavn port district and can turn out to be the studio’s fourth workplace within the metropolis.

The founding father of BIG, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, led a tour of the constructing throughout this 12 months’s UIA World Congress of Architects, which came about within the metropolis this month.

In an interview with Dezeen, he described being one of many world’s best-known architects as a “double-edged sword”.

“I feel on one hand, the truth that a few of our initiatives have spoken to folks in methods which can be related to them has provided us the chance to do some thrilling work that we’d like to do by those who have been drawn to our mind-set and dealing,” he informed Dezeen.

“However after all, the flip facet is sort of like knee-jerk antagonism that’s possibly type of thermostat,” he added.

In response to British-Ghanaian architect David Adjaye being accused of sexual assault and harassment by three former staff final week, the Africa Institute cancelled work on a mission his studio was designing in Sharjah.

“The Africa Institute is deeply troubled by the just lately reported allegations concerning David Adjaye, and we’ve got made the choice to cancel the constructing mission with Adjaye Associates,” president of the Africa Institute Hoor Al Qasimi mentioned in an announcement shared with Dezeen.

In design information, former Apple chief design officer Jony Ive unveiled a “respectful and mild” replace to audio model Linn’s Sondek LP12 turntable. Created to mark its fiftieth anniversary, the turntable redesign was a return to music gamers for the iPod designer.

“I’ve all the time had a deep love of music, and have had the great alternative and privilege to design a lot of totally different music gamers and headphones — most notably the a number of generations of iPods whereas I led design at Apple,” Ive mentioned.

This week noticed a pair of US embassies unveiled. In Guatemala, The Miller Hull Partnership drew upon Mayan structure and the perfect of “openness and optimism” for the nation’s embassy in Guatemala Metropolis.

Whereas in Turkey, New York studio Ennead Architects aimed to “stability openness and safety” with a constructing in Ankara that was knowledgeable by conventional Turkish structure.

Fashionable initiatives this week included a rammed-earth arts centre in Kampala, an off-grid analysis station in rural Kansas and an all-marble extension to Victorian home.

Our lookbooks featured interiors that seize the temper of a Wes Anderson movie and
interiors that strike a stability between rustic and up to date.

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