alright. i need to get how much i love BIG (bjarke ingels group) off my chest. he and julien de smedt used to make up half of PLOT before they parted ways. this might not make much sense if you haven't been keeping up on your future-city contemporary danish architecture lately (shame on you) - PLOT is a firm that designed a bunch of really cool bldgs in copenhagen. anyways, they separated and now it's BIG on one side and JDS (juilen de smedt). and it's AMAZING. like the craziest awesomest coolest stuff ever.
click here to see the website. he lectured at columbia this week i think, too.
anyways, i was just reading this article in metropolis and i can't get over the last paragraph:
“Do you know the Notorious B.I.G.?” Ingels asked me as we returned from the VM Houses in his Volvo wagon. “I read in Wikipedia that B.I.G. stands for ‘Business Instead of Game.’” If gangsta rap and progressive Danish urbanism seem worlds apart, Ingels views Biggie Smalls’s nickname as a simple metaphor for his own “big,” moving toward ever more ambitious, and realizable, urban schemes.
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
