Harvard Business School

Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and ...
Dezeen

Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant by BIG

Here are the latest renderings of BIG's combined power plant and ski slope that blows smoke rings, which commenced construction in Copenhagen yesterday (+ slideshow). The Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy ...
Harvard Business School

Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration

As part of our immersive field course, we visited Amager Bakke, a waste incinerator in Copenhagen, Denmark. The plant was built in 2016 by Amager Resource Center, a management company owned by the ...
The Guardian

An incinerator with a view: Copenhagen waste plant gets ski slope and picnic area

The Amager Bakke plant – designed by celebrated architect Bjarke Ingels – boasts that it will provide social as well as environmental infrastructure near the centre of the city. Can industry become ...
Politico Europe

Not enough’s rotten in the state of Denmark

COPENHAGEN — There's something unusual about the ski slope towering over an industrial neighborhood of the Danish capital. Underneath the 400-meter-long fluorescent green artificial hill lies a ...
The Guardian

Amager Resource Centre review – green energy goes off-piste

Bjarke Ingels’s splicing of power plant and ski slope confirms the Danish architect’s transition from enfant terrible to global brand If you look out from the summit of Copenhagen’s new-made alp, you ...