Technology
PRESS
PICO VELÁSQUEZ
METAVERSE VISIONARY
FORBES, 27 March 2023 "How AI Can Help Our Jobs Without Taking Them"
SMART CITY MIAMI, 05 January 2023 "The Great Challenge: Integrating Between The Physical & The Virtual"
DESIGNBOOM, 03 November 2022 "In Conversation With Pico Velasquez On Architecting The Metaverse"
DISGUISE, 21 September 2022 "Exploring Art In The Metaverse With Pico Velasquez"
DESIGNBOOM, 13 September 2022 "Global Pioneers Define The Future Of The Metaverse, Web 3.0 & More At Metaweek Dubai”
EL ESPECTADOR, 26 August 2022 "El Metaverso Y La Posibilidad De Absoluta Creación"
EXCLAMA, 22 August 2022 "Pico Velásquez y el Metaverso Aquí Y Ahora"
KINESTRY, 07 July 2021 "Future of Physical Immersion + Metaverse Part One"
OUT OF SCOPE, 24 July 2021 "If These Walls Could Talk"
HARD ROCK OCULUS
CREATIVE DIRECTOR + ROCKWELL GROUP
THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER, 02 February 2020 “Does the Hollywood Hard Rock Hotel rock, or is it a one-hit wonder?”
ROLLING STONE, 02 February 2020 “Jennifer Lopez, DJ Khaled Go on Wild Hotel Chase in Super Bowl Ad”
MIAMI HERALD, 21 January 2020 “When is the light show?: Everything you ever wanted to know about the guitar hotel”
THINK MAGAZINE, 01 December 2019 “Seminole Hard Rock Continues to Rock On“
ARCHPAPER, 12 November 2019 “Hard Rock Guitar Hotel Opens”
CNN, 28 October "World's first Guitar-shaped Hotel Opens with a Smash"
USA TODAY, 27 October 2019 “Guitar Hotel Opens Seminole Hard Rock Hotel Casino”
EDM TUNES , 25 October 2 019 “Seminole Hard Rock Opens Guitar Hotel with Dazzling Show”
EXPRESS DIGEST, 25 October 2018 "The $1.5billion Guitar Shaped Hotel Opens with Glamorous Launch "
DAILY MAIL UK , 25 October 2019 “1.5 Billion Guitar Shaped Hotel Opens Glamorous Launch”
NEWS MAVEN, 25 October 2109 “1.5 Billion Hard Rock Guitar Hotel”
LOCAL 10, October 24, 2019 “Rockin’ Reveal gives you a sneak peak at the new Hard Rock Hotel” Pico Velasquez Interview, Creative Director with Rockwell Group
CBS MIAMI, 24 October 2019, “Seminole Hard Rock To Open World’s First Guitar-Shaped Hotel“
PEOPLE, 24 October 2019 “See Inside the World's First Guitar-Shaped Hotel: PEOPLE Takes an Exclusive Tour”
CNN, 25 July 2019 “World’s First Guitar-shaped Hotel”
WPLG LOCAL 10, 10 November 2018 “The Oculus- A must see experience at the new Hard Rock!”
HARMONOGRAPHS
COMPUTATIONAL DESIGNER + THREEASFOUR
VOGUE, 27 October 2017 “Spring 2018 Ready-to-Wear ThreeAsfour“
ASVOF, 28 November 2017 “The Motion of Amalgamation: threeASFOUR “
RAVELIN, 23 November 2017 “ThreeAsfour Present Harmonograph“
GOOGLE HEADQUARTERS
LEAD COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECT + BJARKE INGELS GROUP
ARCHITECT MAGAZINE, 07 January 2019 "Google Charleston East"
DEZEEN, 27 August 2019 "Roof Completes on Heatherwick and BIG's Google HQ"
DEZEEN, 30 November 2018 "Movie Shows BIG and Heatherwick's Google HQ taking shape"
ARCHDAILY, 31 March 2016 “BIG and Heatherwick Reveal Revised Plans for Google ́s MountainView Campus“
DEZEEN, 15 March 2016 “BIG and Heatherwick rework Google HQ Design for smaller Mountain“
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28 March 2016 “Google and Apple: the High-Tech Hippies of SiliconValley“
ARCHDAILY 29 November 2015 “Esquire Interviews Bjarke Ingels on the Google Headquarters, 2 World Trade Center and the NFL“
ESQUIRE, 24 November 2015 “Bjarke Ingels Knows What’s Google Wants and How to Build It”
ARCHDAILY, 1 June 2015 “New Site Revealed for BIG and Heatherwick-Designed Google HQ Expansion“
BUSINESS JOURNAL, 29 May 2015 “Scoop Google plans another glass dome in race for Mountain View"
NEW ATLAS, 2 March 2015 “Plans Unveiled for Google’s New Mountain View Headquarters”
ARCHDAILY 27 February 2015 “See BIG & Heatherwick’s Design for Google ́s CaliforniaHeadquarters“
ARCHITECTS JOURNAL, 27 February 2015 “Revealed: Heatherwick and BIG ́s proposed new Google HQ“
SLATE- FUTURE TENSE, 27 February 2015 “Google ́s New Googleplex Could Not be Googlier“
ARCHITECTS NEWSPAPER, 27 February 2015 “Breaking! Renderings and video of Bjarke Ingel’s and Heatherwick’s Google headquarters unveiled“
DEZEEN, 27 February 2015 “BIG and Heatherwick unveil Vibrant New Neighborhood for Google ́s California HQ“
CBS NEWS, 26 February 2015 “Google wants to build new headquarters“
CURBED, 25 February 2015 “Google Enlists Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick to Create a Series of Canopylike Buildings for New HQ“
DESIGN BOOM, 2 February 2015 “Thomas Heatherwick + Bjarke Ingels slated for Google ́s new California HQ“
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, 31 January 2015 “A First Look at Google ́s New Mountain View“
ARCHITECT MAGAZINE, 3 January 2015 “Google Finds New Mountain View, Calif., Site for Its Headquarters“
BLOOMBERG, 7 May 2015 “Big and Weird: The Architectural Genius of Bjarke Ingels“
DESIGN BOOM, 2 March 2015 “Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick reveal Google ́s California HQ“
DEZEEN, 5 March 2015 “Google ́s new HQ will be more like a workshop than a corporate office, says Bjarke Ingels“
INHABITAT, 3 June 2015 “VIDEO: Google ́s new California headquarters is a greenhouse utopia by BIG and Heatherwick“
LOS ANGELES TIMES, 3 March 2015 “Google new headquarters design transparency to new levels“
THE MERCURY NEWS “Google reveals trump card to build new Mountain View headquarters“
NEW YORK TIMES, 27 March 2016 “Bjarke Ingels on His Via 57 Chair“
THE GUARDIAN, 27 February 2015 “Google ́s new headquarters, an upgradable futuristic greenhouse“
NEWYORKER, 13 June 2015 “Google ́s Monastic Vision of the Future of Work“
THE VERGE, 13 July 2016 “Google may get its futuristic new campus after all“
THE COOLIST, January 2015 “Googles New Starchitect-Designed Campus is a Massive City Under a Transparent Canopy“
WASHINGTON CITY PAPER, 7 January 2015 “Why Architect Bjarke Ingels Risks Reputation with Pigskins Deal“