Merging visionary dreams with everyday functionality serves as the ultimate blueprint for sustainable architecture and the cities of tomorrow, star architect Bjarke Ingels shows in his captivating DLD26 talk.
The founder of BIG Group takes the audience on a global tour of his firm’s boundary-pushing projects. Highlights include Copenhagen’s CopenHill, a remarkably clean waste-to-energy plant that doubles as a man-made Alpine ski slope, and a tiny Lapland hotel featuring “one room for humans and 300 rooms for birds and bats.”
Ingels also points to upcoming projects, such as Zurich’s new airport terminal destined to be the world’s largest timber building; and the EU’s Joint Research Center in Sevilla, which utilizes transparency and evaporative cooling to eventually become carbon-negative.
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