BIG Bjarke Ingels Group

An international collective based in Copenhagen, New York, and London

BIG is a group of architects, designers, urbanists, landscape architects, interior and product designers, researchers, and inventors with offices in Copenhagen, New York, and London. The studio is currently engaged in numerous projects in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. BIG's architecture stems from a careful analysis of how contemporary life evolves and constantly changes, influenced by multicultural exchanges, global economic flows, and communication technologies, which together impose new ways of architectural and urban organization.

Utopian and pragmatic architecture at the same time

We believe that, to address current challenges, architecture can benefit from exploring a territory that has been little explored so far: a utopian and pragmatic architecture, which avoids both the sterile pragmatism of "boring boxes" and the naive utopianism of digital formalism. Like a kind of programmatic alchemy, we create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, working, leisure, parking, and shopping. By finding a fertile meeting point between pragmatism and utopia, architects regain the freedom to transform the surface of our planet to better adapt it to contemporary forms of life.