Exploring Design in Thailand and Tokyo

From Buddhist temples and long-tail boats to the world-famous Tsukiji Fish Market and the Hotel Okura

Sponsored by ANA

With a long list of recommendations and high hopes, we recently left NYC behind for a week exploring Thailand and Tokyo by way of All Nippon Airways (ANA). Though the trip from New York’s JFK airport was lengthy, ANA’s business class kept us well-rested and ready to scout the local design scene upon arrival in Bangkok. From studio visits with Thai artists to self-guided tours …

The Future Googleplex Unveiled

Google’s most innovative product yet just might be their own headquarters. They’ve called upon architecture aces Bjarke Ingels of BIG and Thomas Heatherwick of Heatherwick Studios to design the next generation of their Googelplex in Mountain View, California. Combining open community spaces with seamless, nature-focused design, the collaboration has led to modular workspaces blanketed by a translucent glass canopy that transforms the new “buildings” into …

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 …