Over the past decade, Bjarke Ingels’s firm BIG has made its reputation primarily by designing some of the most ambitious residential buildings anywhere today. First in Copenhagen and now in New York, Beijing, and other cities, the office has gained international attention by finding opportunities for architectural invention within the tight practical demands of speculative residential development. Over the last six years, as many of those projects have risen, the office has been working to realize an earlier big win: a 2006 competition for the M/S Maritime Museum on the coast of Ingels’s native Denmark. With the project now complete, BIG adds to its burgeoning portfolio an impressive public building that negotiates formal and technical constraints to create a public landmark in a footprint of the nation’s historic shipbuilding industry.
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