Michael Kimmelman and Bjarke Ingels in conversation about three major projects of New York designed by BIG.

The Times’s architecture critic, Michael Kimmelman, spoke with the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels about three of his projects in New York. They spoke at the Cities for Tomorrow conference on July 20. Bjarke Ingels designed three major projects in New York, West 57th Street, 2 World Trade Center and The Dryline. In general, Bjarke as an innovative starchitect, he compared architecture with the game ''Twister'' and he said ''we escape a straightjacket of the standard solution and we come up with something different and like twister it becomes more acrobatic and enjoyable.''- See the full conversation in video.

Watch the Video of Bjarke Ingels and Michael Limmelman

West 57th Street, image © BIG

2 World Trade Center, image  © BIG

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group (Copenhagen/New York) and and One Architecture (Amsterdam), in collaboration with the City of New York, propose a protective ribbon in Southern Manhattan using a series of raised berms and other measures to create public spaces along the water’s edge, forming a large-scale integrated flood protection system. image courtesy of Holcim Foundation.

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