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  • Amager Bakke operator has "no plans to close down" ski slope on roof of BIG power plant

    The operator of the BIG-designed Copenhill ski slope has denied that it will need to close, following reports in the Danish press that it may be forced to shut permanently due to the deterioration of its skiing surface. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 25 August 2021 | Leave a comment
  • BIG's Amager Bakke power station photographed by Hufton + Crow

    Architecture photography studio Hufton + Crow has captured the chimney of Amager Bakke, a waste-to-energy power station covered by a ski slope designed by BIG, rising from the mist. More

    India Block | 21 October 2020 | Leave a comment
  • BIG opens Copenhill power plant topped with rooftop ski slope in Copenhagen

    BIG has completed the "cleanest waste-to-energy power plant in the world" in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is topped by an artificial ski slope that is open all year round. More

    Lizzie Crook | 8 October 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Suspected murderer Peter Madsen worked on BIG's smoke-ring-blowing power plant

    The Danish inventor on trial for committing murder aboard his self-built submarine helped Bjarke Ingels Group develop the distinctive smoke-ring-blowing chimney of its Copenhagen power plant, Dezeen has learned. More

    Jessica Mairs | 4 April 2018 | Leave a comment
  • SLA Architects' ski park atop BIG's Copenhagen power plant to open this year

    With BIG's Amager Bakke Waste-To-Energy Plant due to open in Copenhagen later this year, this movie in our Dezeen x MINI Living series explores how its year-round rooftop ski slope designed by SLA Architects was conceived. More

    Calum Lindsay | 29 March 2018 | Leave a comment
  • BIG launches Kickstarter campaign for smoke-ring-blowing chimney at Copenhagen power plant

    Bjarke Ingels has become the latest architect to use crowdfunding to finance a project, launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for development of a power plant chimney that will blow smoke rings (+ movie) More

    Anna Winston | 17 August 2015 | 36 comments
  • Video reveals trial of smoke-ring-blowing chimney for BIG's Copenhagen power plant

    News: as construction of BIG's Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant continues in Copenhagen, a video has surfaced showing a successful trial for the building's smoke-ring-blowing chimney (+ movie). More

    Amy Frearson | 25 February 2015 | 8 comments
  • BIG's combined power plant and ski slope is "turning science fiction into fact"

    Movie: in the final part of our series of exclusive video interviews with Bjarke Ingels, the architect compares his design method to the family game of Twister and claims BIG's Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant will "transform people's perceptions" about public utility buildings. More

    Benedict Hobson | 12 July 2014 | 12 comments
  • Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant by BIG

    Here are the latest renderings of BIG's combined power plant and ski slope that blows smoke rings, which commenced construction in Copenhagen yesterday (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 5 March 2013 | 3 comments
  • Waste-to-Energy Plant by BIG

    Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design a power plant for Copenhagen with their design that will blow smoke rings and double up as a ski slope. More

    Rose Etherington | 27 January 2011 | 25 comments

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