Henning Larsen Partners with Krea to Embed Imagery

Henning Larsen Architects and Krea announced an enterprise partnership in late May 2026 to co-develop AI creative tools for architecture (Henning Larsen's own announcement is dated May 21, 2026; Krea's blog post is dated May 29, 2026). Per Henning Larsen's post, the agreement includes data security assurances, copyright protection for AI-generated imagery, and EU AI Act compliance where applicable. Krea co-founder and CTO Diego Rodriguez writes that he learned of the fit when Henning Larsen's Nitsan Bartov, an architect and industrial PhD fellow, showed him an internal survey in which staff had independently named Krea their preferred AI creative tool. TipRanks reports the partners held an AI-focused workshop in Copenhagen to test generative tools on live competition projects. Architizer's coverage describes the studio's rollout as deliberately bottom-up, with staff across geographies and roles testing multiple AI tools before the studio collectively engaged Krea, and quotes Head of Digital Adoption Eliana Nigro: "Innovation has to happen in open partnerships, and responsible adoption means the human side has to stay central."

Henning Larsen's Nitsan Bartov describes internal studies that benchmarked AI models across tasks from technical drawings (wayfinding systems, flood analysis) to workflows mixing LLMs and diffusion models for upscaling and enhancing Rhino and Revit renders, per Krea's blog. Architizer separately documents practitioners using Krea for image-to-image workflows that take geometry exported from Rhino and Revit and render it into imagery carrying atmosphere and lighting intent, while quoting a Henning Larsen colleague's caution that "AI can produce a beautiful image of a building that could never actually stand up."

Firms evaluating similar partnerships should note Henning Larsen's explicit sequencing: negotiate data-security, copyright, and regulatory-compliance terms as part of the vendor agreement itself, rather than as an afterthought, and validate tool choice through staff testing before firm-wide rollout. The nonbuildable-image risk Architizer flags means visual outputs that imply structural conditions need an explicit review checkpoint against CAD/BIM source geometry, since image-to-image workflows that start from trusted Rhino/Revit models can still drift into physically implausible results.

Watch whether the partnership extends to native BIM integrations or export-safe formats, whether Henning Larsen or Krea publish more detail on how EU AI Act compliance is implemented in practice, and whether other AEC firms adopt similar vendor-negotiated data-security and copyright terms as a template.