BIG beat out Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid in a competition to architect the National Library of Kazakhstan--which happens to be a notoriously corrupt regime. Should we care?

BIG architects recently completed a housing complex billed as "beacon for architectural possibility" and a "feat of residential engineering."

Azerbaijan may not leap to the forefront of your mind when you read the phrase "futuristic eco-island" but that might change when the country's plans for Zira island in the Caspian Sea come to fruition. It's going to be transformed into a 1 million square-meter tourist resort and residential area that'll have a zero carbon footprint.