It has its own lane…
September 19th, 2012
Will you be catching The Bus tomorrow?1
[Via Slipstream]
- I will. In fact, I have the pleasure of using 3 buses to get from home to work. That's three helpings of coolness! ↩
Hedonistic sustainability, Danish-style
March 26th, 2011
Copenhagen will soon be home to the world's least boring power station:
Planned for completion in 2016, the former factory-shaped eyesore will ferry visitors up a vertical elevator to a series of slopes at the top of the smokestack.
Meanwhile — as a gentle nod to the pyramids of garbage churning beneath it — the chimney is designed to puff a 30-meter-wide smoke ring every time a ton of C02 is produced.
"You'll be able to stand in the middle of Copenhagen and tally-up exactly how much carbon has been emitted into the atmosphere," said [architect Bjarke Ingels]. "It's this kind of visual connection that should encourage people to consider their own energy consumption."
[Ingels] said that heat-tracking lights will also be used at night to position lasers on the smoke rings and turn them into glowing artworks, or even pie charts.
[Via The Morning News]