*️⃣CopenHill Energy Plant

Architect #BIG #BjarkeIngels #Ingels
City #Copenhagen
Country #Denmark #EU

🔤CopenHill opens as a new waste-to-energy plant topped with a ski slope, hiking trail and climbing wall, embodying the notion of #sustainability.

The internal volumes of the power plant are determined by the precise positioning and organization of its machinery in height order, creating an efficient, sloping rooftop fit for a 9,000m2 ski terrain. Skiers ascend the park from the platter lift, carpet lifts or glass elevator for a glimpse inside the 24-hour operations of a waste incinerator.

Recreation buffs and visitors reaching the summit of CopenHill will feel the novelty of a mountain in an otherwise-flat country. Meanwhile, the 10,000m2 green roof addresses the challenging micro-climate of an 85m high park, rewilding a biodiverse landscape while absorbing heat, removing air particulates and minimizing stormwater runoff.

Project was selected by #Archdaily as the best building in industrial category in 2020. #award

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Colour #metallic
Material #steel
Function #mixeduse #industrial #other #entertainment #sport
Feature #greenery
Address: Vindmøllevej 6, 2300 København, Denmark
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*️⃣Marsk tower

Architect #BIG #BjarkeIngels #Ingels
City #Skaebaek
Country #Denmark #EU

🔤The 25-meter-high Marsk Tower – translated as “Marsh Tower” due to its location in the marshlands of Denmark’s popular National Park, Wadden Sea. The tower’s simple design, defined by Corten steel materiality, exudes a natural aesthetic that blends with the surrounding environment.

“Because of the earth curvature, visitors will gradually expand their view of the horizon while walking to the top of the tower. On the foot of the tower, you will be able to see 4 km into the distance, but from the top of the tower the view is expanded to an 18 km view into the horizon,” says Jakob Lange, Architect and Partner, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group.

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Material #corten
Function #public #observation
Address: Hjemstedvej 60, 6780 Skærbæk, Denmark
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*️⃣Palazzo Mondadori

Architect #OscarNiemeyer #Niemeyer
City #Milan
Country #Italy #EU

🔤When Georgio Mondadori, chairman of the Italian publishing house Mondadori, commissioned Niemeyer to design the company’s new headquarters in 1968, he wanted the building to look like the Itamaraty Palace (also known as Palace of the Arches) in Brasília. Niemeyer agreed, but given his playful spirit, he deliberately deviated from the earlier design and proceeded to build what he would later identify as his favorite of the projects he completed in Europe.

"Whoever goes to see the Mondadori headquarters remains astonished because nobody has ever seen a colonnade in which the arches are different from each other” elaborated Niemeyer in an interview, as he talked about the importance of, and his love for, the element of surprise in architecture.

The central concrete volume and its colonnades along with the two adjacent sweeping volumes are reflected in the surrounding pool, and this is perhaps what the photographer’s eye delights in most when capturing Niemeyer’s beloved building. #water

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Material #rawconcrete
Function #office
Feature #retro
Address: Via Arnoldo Mondadori, 1, 20054 Milano MI, Italy
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*️⃣The Twist Museum

Architect #BIG #BjarkeIngels #Ingels
City #Jevnaker close to #Oslo
Country #Norway #EU

🔤Built around a historical pulp mill, The Twist is conceived as a beam warped 90 degrees near the middle to create a sculptural form as it spans the Randselva.

A simple twist in the building’s volume allows the bridge to lift from the lower, forested riverbank in the south up to the hillside area in the north.

From either direction, visitors experience the twisted gallery as though walking through a camera shutter.

From the south entry, visitors cross a 16m aluminum-clad steel bridge to reach the double-height space with a clear view to the north end, similarly linked with a 9m pedestrian bridge. The double-curved geometry of the museum is comprised of straight 40cm wide aluminum panels arranged like a stack of books, shifted ever so slightly in a fanning motion. The same principle is used inside with white painted 8cm wide fir slats cladding the floor, wall, and ceiling.

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Colour #metallic #white
Material #aluminium
Function #public #museum
Address: Samsmoveien 41, 3520 Jevnaker, Norway
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*️⃣The Kudykina Gora Hospitality Center

Architect #Megabudka Architecture Bureau
City #Yablonovo close to #Voronezh
Country #Russia #EU part

🔤The volumes form a cozy, comfortable-scale building front, reminiscent of a fragment of a street in the old city.

The architects of the Moscow bureau Megabudka carried out research and, as a result, developed their own vision of the New Russian Style. The created architectural style is not artificial, but is based on rethinking the cultural and value aspects inherent in the national architecture and mentality. This helps not to go beyond the flexible interpretation of the combination of two concepts: avant-garde and tradition. Here the avant-garde is a completely international style, while the traditional is a woodcut, a semblance of brutal, magnificent and excessive.

The first structure, built in the new Russian style according to the project of the architectural bureau Megabudka, is The Kudykina Gora Hospitality Center. Before the construction, the owners had been developing the park together with the bureau for several years. The idea of ​​a "rethought national identity" is laid in the foundation of development. Any object: logo, mascot, food, font, planning principles, architecture and the like, appears in the park only if it meets the general concept of identity.

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Colour #black
Material #wood
Function #public #community
Address: 52.367000, 38.760000, Kamenka, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, 399206

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