Collection by Miyoko Ohtake
House by Bjarke Ingels Group
Good things come in threes and for Danish superstarchitect Bjarke Ingels, it’s no different. As he makes his new home in New York City, the founder of BIG (the Bjarke Ingels Group) sees the opening of the third of his housing projects in Ørestad, a still-new neighborhood in Copenhagen. Like the VM Houses and The Moutain, which came before, the Eight House is yet another example of Ingel’s architectural alchemy turned gold.
Completed in 2010, the 656,600-square-foot Eight House comprises over 107,000 square feet of office and retail space at...
Ingels refers to the Eight House as his second work of architectural alchemy—and the similarities between The Mountain...
A footpath to the Eight House's interior offers another resemblance between The Mountain and Ingel's latest work.
At The Mountain, the garage offers soaring views of structural beams offset with brightly colored ceilings and...
Though the apartments can be reached by elevator, a figure-eight path on the exterior “lets you walk and bicycle along...
In Copenhagen, where the cost of living makes a dinner out worth weeks of savings, the residents spend much more time...
And even when Eight House residents go out, in Ørestad, there’s a limited selection of what to do—something Ingels...
“The result of a figure-eight shape with a mix of rowhouses and office and retail space,” Ingels says, “is that it lets...
The VM Houses were about openness (a resident recalls in our September 2009 article that from his unit one of the two...
From the penthouses, the view stretches across the Eight House and beyond, to protected open spaces.