Imagine skiing down an 85-meter mountain built not on nature, but on top of a power plant. Welcome to CopenHill (Amager Bakke ...

Some 11 years after first being unveiled, the much-anticipated CopenHill, by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) is now finally open to the public. The project is an inspired combination of a waste-to-energy ...

In Copenhagen, Denmark lies Amager Bakke, a unique power plant. Not only is it the world's cleanest waste-to-energy facility, it's also home to a man-made mountain called CopenHill with its own ski ...

Today Architectural Digest visits Copenhagen, Denmark to tour CopenHill — an innovative, climate-positive waste-to-energy plant towering above the city’s downtown that doubles as an urban ski slope.

View post: Last Winter Was Rough, but These Ski Resorts Are Still Open in July As spring turns to summer, a crew of talented European skiers will once again descend on Copenhagen, Denmark. Their ...

“Very soon it’s going to be a fact that in Copenhagen we ski on the roofs of our power plants,” Bjarke Ingels, founder of the Danish architecture practice Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), stated a couple of ...

CopenHill has had a variety of names since 2011, from Amagerforbrændingen to Amager Bakke and CopenHill. Located in an industrial area near the city center, the new waste-to-energy plant aspired to ...

Shut your eyes and it could be any ski resort in the world: the crisp, cold air, the clomping passage of ski boots and the occasional crunching hiss of snowboarders and skiers making their way down a ...