Bjarke Ingels has just returned from the inauguration of his new skyscraper “One High Line” – two twisted glass towers that look as if they are dancing together on the Hudson River. Before that, he inaugurated “The Spiral,” his 66-story skyscraper with densely green terraces spiraling around it. The Danish star architect’s next move is to renew an industrial waterfront in Brooklyn, the “River Ring” project, “to make it accessible to the public,” as he says. Complete with wetlands, kayak pools, swimming beaches, “so that New Yorkers can finally swim in the East River again.”
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