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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Globe Trotting: Here's What Starchitect Bjarke Ingels Built For His High School

Tuesday, August 13, 2013, by Amy Schellenbaum

bjarke1673221-slide-ghg-image-by-jens-lindhe-01.jpgPhoto via Co.Design

Just outside of Copenhagen, Bjarke Ingels—the architecture it-boy who wants to tear a Florida skyscraper in half and erect a waste plant-cum-ski slope—has completed this undulating rec building for Old Hellerup High School, which just so happens to be Ingels' alma mater. The rolling roofline of the structure, Co.Design writes, is based on a textbook geometric formula for a ballistic arc, an "homage," Ingels says, to his old math teacher.


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