BIG is a Copenhagen-based group of architects, designers and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. BIG has created a reputation for completing buildings that are as programmatically and technically innovative as they are cost and resource conscious. In our architectural production we demonstrate a high sensitivity to the particular demands of site context and program.

BIG’s recently completed projects include The Mountain (2008), the World Architecture Festival Housing Award winner, Helsingør Psychiatric Hospital (2006), the Maritime Youth House (2004) and Copenhagen’s Harbour Bath (2003), an urban transformation from an industrial port and traffic junction into the cultural and social centre of the city. BIG seeks to free architectural imagination from habitual thinking and standard typologies in order to deal with the constantly evolving challenges of contemporary life.

More than 100,000 m2 are currently under construction. Among these projects are the 8 House, a 62,000 m2 mixed-use project including 500 residential units and a continuously ramping bike loop accessing units up to the 10th level. The 5,000 m2 Danish Maritime Museum respects its UNESCO setting in Helsingør to create an invisible icon. In China the Danish Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai is nearing completion. Additionally, BIG placed first in six international competitions in 2009 including the Tallinn Town Hall in Estonia, Kaufhaus Kanal in Germany and the Shenzhen Energy Mansion in China.