Combination Ski Slope-Trash Incinerator Breaks Ground In Copenhagen

But not without taking some criticism. Denmark starchitect Bjarke Ingels has always designed eye-popping structures, but his plan for a combination ski slope/garbage burner/energy plant sounded especially zany when it was announced in early 2011. Pitched as a sustainable building, it faced some early push-back from the city of Copenhagen because it might damage the environment (ironic!) and for a while it looked like the project might get scrapped entirely. But, nope. The Bjarke Ingels Group (BI...