The modernist skyscraper and the contemporary interpretation of the pre-modern setback merge in a new hybrid and an exciting addition to the NYC skyline. BIG — Bjarke Ingels Group is a New York and Copenhagen based group of architects, designers and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development.
BIG is led by 12 partners and 17 Associates. With an international team of more than people, BIG works on projects across a broad spectrum of industries and in more than 20 countries worldwide. We take a human-centered approach to our work - looking at how our urban environments can increase the quality of life, designing cities and buildings as double ecosystems that are both ecologically and economically profitable. In our work process, we put great focus on the necessary details in order to realize the BIG idea.
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An architect's model of the proposed World Trade Center, c. Project managers faced cost overruns as safety, wind and fire tests were conducted. And engineers embraced or created innovative construction techniques and new technologies to make the towers lighter and taller. To build such tall towers on landfill that had piled up onto Lower Manhattan for centuries, the towers needed exceedingly strong foundations. So engineers dug a huge rectangular hole seven stories down into the soft soil to reach bedrock.
But it worked like a bathtub in reverse. The 1. The Twin Towers had elevators operating inside 15 miles of elevator shafts, and when they were installed, their motors were the largest in the world. That innovation lessened the amount of space the elevators took, leaving more rentable floor space.
Engineers concluded in wind tunnel tests in that the towers could sustain a thrashing of m. But they also realized that in the winds coming off the harbor, the towers could sway as much as 10 feet, making office space potentially tough to rent.
Two months after the release of the blockbuster movie The Towering Inferno , a three-alarm blaze in the North Tower in raised concerns that the Twin Towers had no sprinklers. But the sprinklers failed when they were needed the most. Architectural Digest : How did you become enamored with the Twin Towers, and what do they represent to you?
Justin Beal: I studied architecture. It was summer of , and I was obsessed with the Twin Towers. They were so beautiful to me as objects. It occurred to me I had no idea who designed them, even though I graduated from a rigorous architecture program.
What did you want to shed light on? It made me reflect on how I was taught architectural history. Architecture is a very white, privileged field. JB: Major forces in 20th-century society impacted his life. After Pearl Harbor, everything changed. They moved into his tiny apartment in New York City, while he was working for the government the same government that imprisoned , Japanese Americans.
It was a complicated dynamic to start his career. He had tremendous success after that, then suffered monumental failures later in his career. His story always touched on big forces and big themes. He was positioned to be a major figure. His critical reception was positive in the beginning but just got more negative over time. When you build the biggest building in the world, nobody knows what it will look like.
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