Bjarke Ingels Group

Bjarke Ingels Group, often referred to as BIG, is a Copenhagen, New York City, London, Barcelona, Shanghai, Oslo, Los Angeles, Zurich, and Bhutan-based group of architects and designers operating within the fields of architecture, product, landscape design, and planning. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East. As of 2023, the company employs 700+ people.

Bjarke Ingels and Julien De Smedt established the company PLOT in Copenhagen in January 2001, as a focus for their architectural practice. Ingels established BIG in late 2006 after he and De Smedt closed down PLOT. BIG drew acclaim for its first completed commission, the Mountain, a residential project in Copenhagen which had been started by PLOT. Since then, BIG has completed more than 60 projects across the world, including a waste-to-energy plant which doubles as a ski-slope in Copenhagen, Denmark; the West 57th Street mixed-use VIA 57 West in midtown Manhattan, nicknamed a court-scraper, for Durst Fetner Residential; the headquarters for the Shenzhen Energy Company in Shenzhen; The Plus furniture factory for Vestre in the Norwegian forest; and the new Dock A at Zürich Airport.

In December 2009, the company's partnership was expanded to include Thomas Christoffersen, Jakob Lange, Finn Nørkjaer, Andreas Klok Pedersen, David Zahle, CEO Sheela Maini Søgaard, and Kai-Uwe Bergmann. The same year, BIG launched their first book and exhibition Yes Is More, an "archicomic" about architectural evolution published under Taschen.

In 2010, BIG opened a branch office in New York City, where they were commissioned to design the VIA 57 West courtscraper for Durst Fetner Residential. BIG then began working with LEGO to design the LEGO House in Billund, Denmark, which opened in 2017. In 2013, Hot to Cold, BIG's second book and exhibition, exploring how architecture evolves in response to its context and climate, was released.

At a lecture at the Royal Academy in July 2015, BIG proposed turning the Battersea Power Station in London into "the world's tallest Tesla coils."

In 2015, BIG added four new partners: Beat Schenk and Daniel Sundlin in New York and Brian Yang and Jakob Sand in Copenhagen. BIG also secured work for CapitaLand Group with their high-rise CapitaSpring in Singapore, which officially opened in 2022.

In May 2016, BIG partnered with Hyperloop One, Deutsche Bahn, and SYSTRA to develop a test of the high-speed, low friction Hyperloop concept. They also began work with Google and architecture firm Heatherwick for Google's new headquarters in Mountain View, California.

In March 2017, BIG signed a lease for an office in the Brooklyn neighborhood Dumbo, keeping its Manhattan office at the same time. The firm, then 250 people in Manhattan's financial district, all moved to Dumbo.