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BIG-BJARKE INGELS GROUPBIG is a Copenhagen, New York, London, Barcelona and Shenzhen based group of architects, designers, urbanists, landscape professionals, interior and product designers, researchers and inventors. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. Not least due to the influence from multicultural exchange, global economical flows and communication technologies, that all together require new ways of architectural and urban organization. We believe that in order to deal with today’s challenges, architecture can profitably move into a field that has been largely unexplored. A pragmatic utopian architecture that steers clear of the petrifying pragmatism of boring boxes and the naïve utopian ideas of digital formalism. Like a form of programmatic alchemy, we create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping. By hitting the fertile overlap between pragmatic and utopia, we architects once again find the freedom to change the surface of our planet, to better fit contemporary life forms.BIG LEADERSHIPBIG is led by a global group of Partners: Bjarke Ingels, Sheela Maini Søgaard, Kai-Uwe Bergmann, Thomas Christoffersen, Finn Nørkjær, David Zahle, Jakob Lange, Andreas Klok Pedersen, Daniel Sundlin, Jakob Sand, Brian Yang, Beat Schenk, Agustin Perez-Torres, Martin Voelkle, Leon Rost, Catherine Huang, Ole Elkjær-Larsen, Andy Young, Lorenzo Boddi, João Albuquerque, Douglass Alligood, Giulia Frittoli, and Daria Pahhota.Associates: Ziad Shehab, Sören Grünert, Jeremy Alain Siegel, Andreas Buettner, Michelle Stromsta, Linus Saavedra, Aran Coakley, Kristian Hindsberg, Elizabeth McDonald, Blake Smith, Alana Goldweit, Agla Egilsdottir, Dominyka Voelkle, Jason Wu, Julie Kaufman, Lawrence-Oliver Mahadoo, Lorenz Krisai, Margaret Tyrpa, Otilia Pupezeanu, Pauline Lavie-Luong, Sebastian Claussnitzer, Simon Scheller, Yu Inamoto (NYC) Frederik Lyng, Matthew Oravec, Nanna Gyldholm Møller, Eva Seo-Andersen, Per Bo Madsen, Snorre Nash, Kekoa Charlot, Andrea Hektor, Hung Kai Liao, Jinho Lee, Laurent de Carniere, Lucas Carriere, Marie Lancon, ‘Molly’ Hsiao Rou Huang, Robert Grimm, Sarkis Sarkisyan, Shane Dalke, Søren Martinussen, Vinish Sethi, Jakob Henke, Jelena Vucic (CPH) Alexandru Malaescu, Chris Falla, Isabel da Silva, Jason Chee Han Chia, Lauren Connell Falla, Ryohei Koike (LON) Maria Sole Bravo, Hanna Johansson and Ángel Barreno Gutiérrez (BCN).Directors: Alexander Bøegh (CIO), Heidi Lykke Sorensen (Director of Finance), Allison Wicks, Nathan Smith,  (Business Development), Eric Li (BIG Asia), Jan Leenknegt (BIM), Jens Majdal Kaarsholm (Design Technology), Francesca Portesine (Interiors), Florencia Kratsman (Space Planning), Andrea Hektor  (Engineering), Richard Ebert (Legal),  Mads Reese Bjarrum (Deputy Director of Global Operations), Nicolas Kastbjerg, Henriette Helstrup, German de la Torre, Tim Christ (Managing Directors), Kristian Palsmar (Director of Technology).BIG’s Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement 2018BIG’s Privacy Policy 2020BIG UN Global Compact ReportBIG’s Annual Sustainability Report, 2021