Month: June 2016

First Look: Starchitect Bjarke Ingels’s Latest Feat | BLOUIN ARTINFO

Bjarke Ingels's new Honeycomb building at Albany resort in the Bahamas will feature a luxury department store, a champagne bar, a jewelry store, and a small art gallery. (Bjarke Ingels Group)
Bjarke Ingels’s new Honeycomb building at Albany resort in the Bahamas will feature a luxury department store, a champagne bar, a jewelry store, and a small art gallery. (Bjarke Ingels Group)

BY JENNIFER PARKER

(original article in BLOUIN ARTIFINO)

Bjarke Ingels, Danish architect and founder of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), is famous for remaking structures and reinventing public spaces. At 41, he’s already altered Manhattan’s skyline with a dramatic ship-like building called VIA. He scrapped the concept of brick walls to create a glass fiber cave for the Serpentine Pavilion in London. And most recently, at the Albany resort in the Bahamas, he’s toying with a new outdoor space, made of water.

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