19 Action News: Great Big Home and Garden Show offers winter escape at IX Center
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The flowers, the landscaping, and warm atmosphere at the Great Big Home and Garden Show are giving Northeast Ohioans a chance to think spring during the dead of winter. The ...
Great Big Home and Garden Show offers winter escape at IX Center
BIG HQ — The stacking of large concrete elements creates a 3D pattern of transparent and opaque façade partitions, that enable a spatially complex and connected office space - a BIG LEAP project, where our disciplines work together to form the most functionally, spatially & economically optimal office building.
Bjarke Ingels - Founder & creative director, BIG “We designed our addition to the Treehotel - the Biosphere - to create a unique experience for hotel guests, which takes inspiration from the qualities of the surrounding forest and absorbs them into the interior. The ecology is the driver behind the architectural expression.”
Bjarke Ingels - Founder and Creative Director, BIG Amenities for the officers provide spaces for relaxation and exercise, including lockers, showers, and a stress reduction courtyard with separate areas for fitness. The Precinct also houses dedicated space for detective and domestic violence units.
BIG proposes a simple and pragmatic arrangement of the performance venues draped in a soft, undulating exterior skin of photovoltaic tiles. The theatre’s form is reminiscent of the free-flowing shapes of a performer’s costume and the Xhubleta, a bell-shaped folk skirt traditionally worn by women in Kosovo.
Opera and Ballet Theatre of Kosovo | Bjarke Ingels Group - big.dk