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| Copenhill Waste-to-Energy Plant, Image from BIG |
On December 6th of 2021, BIG's CopenHill Amager Bakke project was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival. The project exhibits BIG founder Bjork Ingels' philosophy of hedonistic sustainability by combining a power plant project with a ski slope, hiking trail and climbing wall.
Ingels points out that architecture often varies between two opposing extremes; "an avant-garde full of crazy ideas, originating from philosophy or mysticism; and the well organized corporate consultants that build predictable and boring boxes of high standard." Ingels and his firm focus on a third way which they describe as "a pragmatic utopian architecture that creates socially, economically and environmentally perfect places as a practical objective."
One of my favorite of Ingels' projects is the 82 foot-high Mountain Dwellings built in the Orestad district of Copenhagen. By arranging apartments in a diagonally sloping scheme, the mountain themed complex provides spacious apartments with each including a 1000 square foot south-facing terrace. After completion in 2008, it received several prestigious awards including the World Architecture Festival Housing Award,
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| Mountain Dwellings, Image by BIG |
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