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Copenhagen's new $640 million power plant will have a ski slope on its roof — take a look by Leanna Garfield on Jan 8, 2018, 12:52 PM Advertisement
 Power and waste management plants are usually kept outside major cities so that residents don't have to see the plumes of smoke or smell burning trash. Copenhagen's new energy plant designed by Bjarke Ingels Group is a little different — it's both sustainable and an incredible piece of architecture. Dubbed the Amager Resource Center (ARC), the building will turn trash into power that will then go to the city's grid. When it goes live later this year, it will generate less CO2 than the city's former plant, too. The plant's unique design doesn't stop there. It will also feature a nearly 2,000-foot-long ski slope and the world's tallest artificial climbing wall. Take a look below. SEE ALSO: Silicon Valley elites are obsessed with dangerous, unfiltered water — and it reveals a hidden economic inequality Three miles northeast of downtown Copenhagen, the city's waste-to-energy plant will open in summer 2018.  Instead of smoke plumes, the plant will blow smoke rings, according to its architects from Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).
Visitors will be able to ski down the plant's 1,969-foot-long slope, and climb its 9,537-square-foot climbing wall (which will be the tallest in the world). 
In the first year, around 57,000 people are expected to use the ski slope. A recreation area with water sports, soccer fields, and a go-kart track surrounds the building. 
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