Bjarke Ingels - Cultural Architect
Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture
Bruce Daisley
4.7 • 989 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Bjarke Ingels is the number 1 architect in the world. His buildings are taking the world by storm with their fearless disregard for the conventions and norms of our dull cities. Bjarke's buildings are both fun and immensely practical.
By when the greatest in his field is thinking about the future of work how does he design it? Bjarke explains how he is building innovative workspaces - both for others and for his own company.
Bjarke talks both about the cutting edge buildings that he is creating and references some of the accidentally brilliant buildings of the past like Building 20 at MIT which produced 9 Noble prize winners.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Eat Sleep Work Repeat, a weekly podcast on happiness and work culture. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi this is Eat Sleep Work Repeat, a podcast about work culture and creating happier work. |
| 0:14.1 | You can find all of the episodes on the website, eat sleep work repeat. |
| 0:18.3 | FM. This episode is also going to be available at the end of this week as a YouTube video. |
| 0:23.7 | So there, alongside the discussion you can see photographs and drawings of some of the projects |
| 0:28.6 | we're discussing. |
| 0:29.6 | And you'll find that, I'll tweet it out later in the week and it'll be pinned to the top of our Twitter. |
| 0:34.2 | You'll get that by searching for eat sleep work repeat. |
| 0:37.8 | So my interest in chatting to Bianca Ingalls came about when I saw the design for the new |
| 0:42.1 | Google Landscraper at Kings Cross. |
| 0:44.4 | Bianca is in many people's opinion the number one architect in the world |
| 0:49.1 | and he's created two new buildings for Google. The one in Kings Cross is this vast structure that runs alongside |
| 0:55.6 | Kings Cross station platforms. It's like sort of a tower block laid on its side with all manner |
| 1:01.3 | of things that most of us will never experience at work. |
| 1:04.0 | It's got a running track on the roof. |
| 1:05.0 | It's got a manner of extra perks inside. |
| 1:08.0 | While the external plans and photographs are these buildings, they're always published, |
| 1:12.0 | I was interested in what's inside. and photographs of these buildings are always published. |
| 1:12.8 | I was interested in what's inside. |
| 1:14.8 | What does the world's rock-star architect do when it comes to understanding our work and how |
| 1:21.2 | we're working? |
| 1:22.2 | To be honest, I was slightly fearful that a big |
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