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30 Jan 2020

Bjarke Ingels No longer WeWork?s Chief Architect

Adam Neumann (left), Bjarke Ingels (right): photo : Alexei Hay
On 8th May 2018 WeWork announced Bjarke Ingels as Chief Architect to advise and develop the firm?s design vision and language. The AJ now reports that Bjarke Ingels is no longer employed as chief architect for WeWork.
The Danish starchitect is facing mounting criticism after appearing with the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, whilst on a trip investigating development of tourism projects in the Brasil. BIG released a statement rejecting a binary reading of the world’s countries as good and bad. Ingels rejects the idea that countries like Brazil should be off-limits to architects:
“Creating a list of countries or companies that BIG should shy away from working with seems to be an oversimplification of a complex world”.
This is reminiscent of the fellow starchitect Daniel Libeskind / China controversy back in 2007, when he was asked ‘Do you want to build in China"’, to which the architect replied ?I have been approached a couple of times but I grew up in Poland when it was Communist. I like working in open societies where there is due process. It?s a perso...