BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) is a Copenhagen- and New York-based group of architects, designers, builders, and thinkers. The office is currently involved in a large number of international projects, including West 57 in New York City and the new Google headquarters in Mountain View. Bjarke Ingels started BIG in 2005 after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 and working at OMA in Rotterdam. Ingels has received numerous awards and honors, including the RIBA and Holcim Awards in 2014, Danish Crown Prince’s Culture Prize in 2011 and the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2004. In 2012, the American Institute of Architects granted the 8 House in Copenhagen its Honor Award, calling it “a complex and exemplary project of a new typology.”
