Bjarke Ingels Group recently unveiled the renderings for two hexagonal “Cactus Towers”, as part of a 74,000 square-meter masterplan in Copenhagen that fellow Danish practice Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter is in charge of designing. The project will be built in the Vesterbro district at the Kalvebod Brygge waterfront.
BIG's residential towers, standing at 60 and 80 meters tall, will have 500 compact “youth rooms” with an average size of 30m2 as well as balconies and terraces on each story. The project gets its name from the towers' rotating hexagonal cores, which form a distinctly “spiky” silhouette. According to Magasinet KBH, the towers are BIG's first residential project in Copenhagen since their acclaimed Ørestad projects, which include the 8 House.
The Cactus Towers will overlook Dorte Mandrup's new “urban” IKEA store, a budget-friendly hotel (which Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter claims will be Denmark's largest if all goes accordingly), commercial buildings, and student housing — which will all be connected by green space.
The IKEA store's design will cater to customers without cars and will sell smaller items that are easy to transport on foot or by bike. It's also expected to have sustainable features like a large rooftop recreational field and electric charging stations for bikes. The budget hotel will reportedly have 1,250 rooms spread across two 35-meter-tall buildings. Currently, the IKEA store is scheduled to open in late 2019.
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