BIG. HOT TO COLD Book

The Bjarke Ingels Group explores how architects and engineers can alter their concepts to respond to local climate and social needs

As anyone in NYC can attest, new construction in the city has tended toward the unimaginative, with boxy glass and steel condos popping up where elegant, conscious architecture once existed. Danish architect Bjarke Ingels of the eponymous Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) attributes this trend to the lack of consideration of environmental factors and how they can be used to develop a building; depending instead on …