Dive summary:
- Crews broke ground Monday for a waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen, Denmark, that will be wrapped in ski slopes 300 feet high and covered in synthetic "snow" and will have a park and rock climbing on its 92,000 square meters (22.73 acres).
- And just so no one forgets what it's really about, skiers will get to the top of the slope on an elevator that goes alongside the smokestack, and the plant will send up a 100-foot-wide smoke ring every time the plant emits a metric ton of carbon dioxide – with heat-tracking lights at night.
- Bjarke Ingels Group designed the project, which is supposed to be finished in 2016 and is estimated to cost about $650 million.
From the article:
BIG's theme of "hedonistic sustainability" suffuses this effort to turn an industrial facility into a tourist destination. ...
