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Bjarke\u2019s been busy lately \u2014 not just with edifying<\/a> and exhibiting<\/a> but also his day job as, you know, an architect. The Danish architect\u2019s firm<\/a> has unleashed a veritable blizzard of new projects this winter, with the scale and program of each varying significantly. Following on from the recent groundbreaking of their twisting TELUS Sky Tower<\/a> in Calgary, we can now bring you news of 4 fresh projects \u2014 in ascending order of size \u2014 on BIG\u2019s digital drawing board.<\/p>\n

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SMALL: House For Cars, \u00c5lborg<\/b><\/p>\n

Designed for a private client and his stellar collection of vintage automobiles, GUG Villa is conceived as a simple concrete spiral that transforms from snazzy showroom to light-filled living space as it ascends the hillside.<\/p>\n

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The building has a strong sculptural quality, with echoes of Toyo Ito\u2019s White U House and Zaha Hadid\u2019s MAXXI Museum<\/a> \u2014 with all those fast cars and expanses of glazing, though, Bjarke had better hope there are no accidents akin to the Ferrari fiasco in Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/i><\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

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MEDIUM: Sydhavns Recycling Center, Copenhagen<\/b><\/p>\n

BIG\u2019s proposal for a waste management and recycling center is driven by a desire to reinvent the industrial typology as an \u201cattractive and lively urban space.\u201d Unsurprisingly, this brief is from the same client who commissioned this extraordinary incinerator\/ski-slope hybrid, currently under construction in the same city.<\/p>\n

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The facility is submerged beneath a park complete with fitness equipment, running tracks and picnic areas, while the “recycling square” transforms the waste sorting process into a form of public performance.<\/p>\n

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LARGE: Uppsala Power Plant, Uppsala<\/b><\/p>\n

Continuing in their effort to upend public preconceptions about the design of utilities, BIG\u2019s design for a biomass plant in the Swedish city of Uppsala is perhaps one of their most ambitious \u2014 and colorful \u2014 to date.<\/p>\n

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The plant is proposed as a place of exploration and education as well as a generator of electricity, harnessing OMA\u2019s principles of cross-programming<\/a> in a riotous melting pot of public activity. Then there is that dome: A rainbow-colored geodesic structure unites a series of disparate forms within, providing a light-filled enclosure akin to MVRDV\u2019s \u2018Book Mountain\u2019 library in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n

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EXTRA LARGE: Middle East Media HQ<\/b><\/p>\n

Bjarke\u2019s most ambitious project is in a very different location from the previous three, in terms of both climate and culture. His competition entry for a vast media headquarters is dominated by a dramatic tensile canopy, which provides shade and dappled light across the public space between two pixelated towers.<\/p>\n

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The \u2018fabric\u2019 of the canopy is punctuated with a laced pattern influenced by traditional Arabic designs, and creates an environment with strong similarities to Jean Nouvel\u2019s domed Louvre<\/a>, currently under construction in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

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Which project is your pick of the bunch?<\/p>\n

Yours industriously,<\/p>\n

The Angry Architect<\/a><\/p>\n

All images via BIG<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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