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Hot to Cold

Bjarke Ingels Group returns to the National Building Museum with unprecedented exhibition installation that shows their Hot to Cold projects all around the globe.

Bjarke Ingels Group, “Hot to Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation”. View of the exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Photo © Matthew Carbone

On the heels of its summer indoor maze, the design firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) returns to the National Building Museum this January with a behind-the-scenes look at its creative process.

The exhibition, “Hot to Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation”, takes visitors from the hottest to the coldest parts of our planet and explores how BIG’s design solutions are shaped by their cultural and climatic contexts. More than 60 three-dimensional models are suspended at the second-floor balconies of the Museum’s historic Great Hall in an unprecedented use of this public space.

Bjarke Ingels Group, “Hot to Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation”. View of the exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Photo © Matthew Carbone

“Hot to Cold” premieres 20 of the studio’s latest projects, interpreted through Iwan Baan’s photography of BIG’s built work, films by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, and the Grammy Award-winning graphic artist Stefan Sagmeister’s design for the accompanying catalog by Taschen.

Bjarke Ingels says: “The city is an ongoing project of constant creation and re-creation through refurbishment, modification, adaptation. It is all part of a never-ending journey towards crafting the world of our dreams. As life evolves, so must the world around it. And as our lives evolve, so will our dreams. Architecture is the art of laying the foundations that will serve as the stepping-stone for the next big leap. ‘Hot to Cold’ at the National Building Museum sums up most of our experiments and discoveries from the past decade – we look forward to taking the visitors on this journey of exploration.”

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Bjarke Ingels Group, “Hot to Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation”. View of the exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Photo © Matthew Carbone

Bjarke Ingels Group, “Hot to Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation”. View of the exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Photo © Matthew Carbone

Bjarke Ingels Group, “Hot to Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation”. View of the exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Photo © Matthew Carbone

Bjarke Ingels Group, “Hot to Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation”. View of the exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Photo © Matthew Carbone

Bjarke Ingels Group, “Hot to Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation”. View of the exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Photo © Matthew Carbone

Bjarke Ingels Group, “Hot to Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation”. View of the exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Photo © Matthew Carbone

Bjarke Ingels Group, “Hot to Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation”. View of the exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Photo © Matthew Carbone

Bjarke Ingels Group, “Hot to Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation”. View of the exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Photo © Matthew Carbone

Bjarke Ingels Group, “Hot to Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation”. View of the exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Photo © Matthew Carbone

Bjarke Ingels Group, “Hot to Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation”. View of the exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Photo © Matthew Carbone

Bjarke Ingels Group, “Hot to Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation”. Main concept diagram

until August 30, 2015
Hot to Cold: an odyssey of architectural adaptation
curated by Susan Piedmont-Palladino
sponsored by Realdania, National Endowment for the Arts, Danish Agency for Culture, Durst Organization, Howard Hughes, Junckers, Terra Group, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Graphisoft Sponsorat, LEGO, Queen of Denmark and HRH Prince Henrik Foundation, Rose Rock Group, Tavistock Group, Georg Jensen, Louis Poulsen Lighting, Ramboll Engineering, SAS, Thornton Tomasetti, The Third Fate, AIAIAI, Fritz Hansen, HAY, and Visit Denmark
National Bulding Museum
401 F Street NW
Washington D.C.

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