Forbes features BIG Founder & Creative Director Bjarke Ingels on the cover of its latest Smart Cities issue. Published across the German-speaking DACH region, the profile explores BIG’s evolution from a Copenhagen-based practice into a global studio working across architecture, urbanism, infrastructure, and design. In the interview, Bjarke discusses projects ranging from airports, opera houses, and concert halls to Gelephu Mindfulness City in Bhutan and lunar habitats developed in collaboration with NASA, and shares how BIG’s ambitions have evolved from a five-project “bucket list” into an expanding body of work around the world. The article also features perspectives from CEO Sheela Maini Søgaard on balancing creative ambition with the realities of running a global design business.
