BIG’s design for the A’s new home at the heart of Oakland’s revitalized waterfront seeks to return the game to its roots as the natural meeting place for the local community. An elevated tree lined promenade frames the ballpark on all sides, dipping down to meet the public square and open the field to the water and city views. The perimeter park connects a cascade of social spaces for the fans to enjoy the sport on game days and extends the urban fabric with a neighborhood park to be enjoyed all days a year. In other words – bringing the “park” back in” ballpark”.

Running from January through August , Hot to Cold marked BIG&#;s first major North-American exhibition offering a behind-the-scenes look at BIG&#;s creative process and how the studio&#;s designs are shaped by  cultural and climatic contexts. More than architectural models, mock-ups and prototypes were suspended at the sec­ond-floor balconies of the museum&#;s historic Great Hall, turning the architecture of the National Building Museum into the architecture of the exhibition.

BIG NYC has called Dumbo home since . The , sq ft full floor office wraps around an interior courtyard and houses nearly BIGsters. BIG&#;s interior design team led a complete renovation of the space over six months: interior walls were removed to accommodate the open-plan design, which includes ample room for an architectural model workshop, an exhibition hallway, meeting rooms, a canteen, a library and recreational space.

BIG&#;s proposal was designed to serve as the new headquarters for st Century Fox and News Corp who were planning to move and  consolidate their companies and more than , people under one roof. The design concentrates the needs and requirements of the media company and other tenants into seven separate building volumes, each tailored to their unique activities, while simultaneously creating , sq ft of outdoor space.

The site is laid out as a grid of , x , meter squares, creating one continuous pixelated surface. As a topographic map the surface is morphed to form a terraced landscape of towers, accommodating . m housing, hotel, offices and shops. The project becomes an accumulation of individual niches and outdoor spaces forming a collective organic architecture &#;  a Scandinavian high rise typology incorporating the human scale, the rationality and flexibility of Danish building tradition.