BIG is a Copenhagen, New York, London, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Zurich, and Shanghai-based group of architects, designers, urbanists, landscape professionals, interior and product designers, researchers, and inventors. Their work spans Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East — an approach the studio calls pragmatic utopian architecture, mixing conventional ingredients like living, leisure, working, and shopping to find the fertile overlap between pragmatic and utopia.

Frederik Lyng joined BIG in 2008 and was named Partner in 2024, with a particular focus on projects across Denmark and Scandinavia. He led the design of the new home of Noma, one of the world's most celebrated restaurants, and the award-winning Gammel Hellerup School. His other work includes The Twist at Norway's Kistefos Museum, the Tirpitz Museum built around a WWII bunker in Western Denmark, and BIG's own headquarters in Nordhavn, Copenhagen.