Bjarke Ingels: the BIG-time architect with designs on the entire planet

The audacious Dane behind projects as diverse as Google’s new HQs, Copenhagen’s ski-slope power plant and flood defences for New York tells our critic that he now has designs on the Earth as a whole…Bjarke Ingels, Danish founder of the architectural practice BIG (short for Bjarke Ingels Group), bridles at the suggestion that he is megalomaniac. “I made a mistake at the dawn of time when I named my office BIG,” he tells me, speaking from the converted car ferry in t