The Danish architect Bjarke Ingels riding a wave in a time where Danish design is the fastest growing export in the United States.

Say the name BIG in New York, and you get the following response. "Is not he the young Danish architect who builds a neighboring skyscraper '. With the emphasis on "young".For some of it, one wonders in the architectural profession in the United States is how you can have such a massive success and so have rounded his 50th birthday. For the United States are not used to seeing so young architects run with so much attention.

And that's just what happened to the 39-year-old Danish architect Bjarke Ingels and his BIG Group, slowly but surely increased international recognition and fame. First 'world fame' in Denmark with the spectacular trilogy in Ørestad, mountain, 8's and VM-houses. And alongside those other projects around the world. Some of his Little Mermaid to China, where in the world the show could get a dip in something that would remind a bath in the harbor in Copenhagen.The Chinese were very impressed. And the Danes as the shock of that just snatched the Little Mermaid statue from its secure element at Langelinje and moved the statue to Shanghai, had subsided.

And the international prices have been raining down on the young architect. Among other things, he was recently voted to be among the 100 most creative of the magazine Fast Company in New York. The explanatory memorandum says that Bjarke Ingels practice 'programmatic alchemy', which is the architectural language that Danish Bjarke is good. Really good. So it seems we lie because it is too complicated to explain.

But really famous you become so only when they penetrate in the United States. In particular, in New York City. And it's Bjarke Ingels well on your way.....Continue Reading

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