Bjarke Ingels’ firm has unveiled plans for a recycling facility in Copenhagen, encased within a
manmade hill that could double as a running track, picnic area or even a
snowboarding slope. …
Conceived as “a public space rather than a piece of infrastructure”, the Sydhavns Recycling Center is designed as an artificial hill with
recycling facilities in its centre and a grassy park over its top.
“As a society, our investment in waste management often ends up as utilitarian facilities of concrete boxes that constitute grey areas on
our city maps,” explained BIG in a statement. “What if they could become
attractive and lively urban spaces in the neighbourhoods they form part
of?”
I learned the answer to this question last week after watching Supersized Earth, a BBC documentary on global cities. The show featured the window cleaning company Cox Gomyl, whose brave workers are tasked with cleaning the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, the tallest building in the world.
It takes a team of 36 window cleaners three months to clean the 2,717-foot building, which has 24,000 reflective windows and about 120,000 sq metres of glass.
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