Projects: Copenhill ski slope and energy-from-waste plant, Copenhagen

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Source: Rasmus Hjortshoj

Bjarke Ingels has combined sustainability with recreation by topping a waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen with a 490m artificial ski slope

Sustainability is the zeitgeist of our age. It’s serious stuff all right but can it also be fun? According to Bjarke Ingels of architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) the answer is a resounding yes.

And as if to prove it, his practice has just completed a milestone project that puts sustainability and recreation firmly centre stage.

Copenhill is a £490m waste-to-energy plant in the Amager district of Copenhagen, a post-industrial dockland neighbourhood on the south-east fringes of the city centre that is being extensively regenerated.

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