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Take a look inside BIG’s brand new concrete HQ office in Copenhagen

’s newly opened waterfront headquarters in Copenhagen have been made public after the relocation was completed earlier this spring.

The office known for its familial atmosphere and daily team meals worked on the project collaboratively through its proprietary integrated LEAPP approach (short for internal Landscape, Engineering, Architecture, Planning, and Product Design).

BIG founder Bjarke Ingels shared: "The idea behind LEAPP is an architecture practice as a renaissance, interdisciplinary body of people and knowledge. [...] Every single aspect of LEAPP has been involved in our HQ, including the planning, the product design, the very complex stacking of the concrete elements."

Inside the Piranesian-inspired minimal concrete structure that's located at the tip of a pier in Nordhavn, a sole rotated totem pole-like column made from six types of stone supports a stacked pastiche of open and solid architectural elements combining to equal seven total stories.

The building is home to some 300 BIG employees and relies on a majority (60%) of renewables as its primary sources of energy consumption. The firm says another 84% of its heating and an impressive 100% of the cooling demand comes from a new geothermal energy system that was installed, helping the project to reach the country's strident DGNB Gold certification standard.

BIG has stated it took approximately two years to complete from start to finish after the initial design was first proposed in 2017.

A specially made Uni-Green concrete mix was used for the first time in the project. Circulation is provided via an outdoor spiral stair that provides a secondary egress route and outdoor terraces on each floor. A new 16,000-square-foot public park was also established outside the building, the interior floor plates of which are supported by what has been described as an interlocking 'checkerboard' pattern of 65-foot-long beams.

Inside the park, American artist Benjamin Langholz's sculptural piece

completes the makeover in an echo of both the spiral staircase and stone column. Partner Finn Nørkjær joined Ingels in leading the project. Work on the site totaled 52,528 square feet overall.