NEW YORK: The eighty-fourth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards 2016 has been received.
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels claims his Copenhagen housing development has accomplished the social mission Brutalist architects Alison and Peter Smithson set out to achieve with their “streets in sky” concept in the 1960s and 1970s.
Named 8 House because of its angular figure-of-eight plan, BIG’s building dips and rises at the corners to create a dramatically sloping roof form.
The complex contains a mixture of housing, shops, offices and a kindergarten all connected by sloping walkways that stretch down to a central courtyard.
