This week Bjarke Ingels launched a home design company

This week on Dezeen, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels co-founded a residential design company that aims to create a range of modular homes.

Named Nabr, the company intends to create a large variety of affordable houses using modular elements.

“Our homes have only gotten more and more expensive, and arguably at a lower and lower quality,” explained Ingels.

“There’s very little choice. Ninety-nine per cent of all homes are the same, but all people are actually different. There’s a huge potential to reimagine this entire process, from end to end.”

Bjarke Ingels’ studio BIG was also in the news this week after reports in the Danish press suggested that its Copenhill ski slope may need to close.

However, although the artificial skiing surface is deteriorating faster than expected, the slope’s operator dismissed claims that it is under threat of closure.

We reported that according to the latest IPCC climate report, half of the carbon emissions from cement production are later reabsorbed by the material when it is used to construct buildings.

The role of cement as a carbon sink has been missed, according to Jenny Burridge, principal structural engineer at The Concrete Centre in London.

In a bid to make wind farms more energy-efficient, Wind Catching Systems revealed its design for a floating, offshore wind power generator that would contain more than a hundred rotors stacked vertically.

According to the company, the Windcatcher could produce renewable energy for 80,000 homes.

Following the BIG’s helical Marsk Tower opening and the controversial Marble Arch Mound we took a look at 10 impressive lookouts from Dezeen’s archive.

These include a gravity-defying staircase and a frame-shaped viewpoint in Dubai.