The Copenhagen Harbor will soon boast of two attention-grabbing skyscrapers clad in photovoltaic sheaths united by a wind turbine studded bridge, thanks to Steven Holl Architects‘ LM project which won the ‘design a new gateway for Copenhagen’ competition with an undisputed majority from the jury. The couple towers, ‘Langenlinine’ inspired by the geometry of the old harbor and ‘Marmormolen’ which connects this beautiful gateway to the city through its expansive great terrace and public auditorium.

And like all the visual treat was not enough, the project has an eco-touch with photovoltaic-laden solar screens incorporated into the towers’ glass curtain walls giving them natural ventilation, radiant floor heating and seawater heating and cooling systems. The pedestrian walkway that bridges the towers 65 meters above the harbor is lined with wind turbines that can provide enough electricity to power the building’s public places.

I agree with Jens Kramer Mikkelsen, the administrative director of the development company City/Harbor and Copenhagen’s previous lord mayor in his opinion that this high, high class project brings together the esthetical, the functional, the business minded and I would add ‘the eco-friendly’ clan of Denmark.

Source: Inhabitat