Hasta La Ideas

Norway invented the sport of ski jumping, so it cannot have felt good when the International Ski Federation told them their Holmenkollen Ski Jump was too small to host the World Championships. The existing ski jump was subsequently demolished and a design competition held for a new one.

Danish architecture firm JDS (Julien De Smedt Architects) won the competition, and four years later, the redesigned Holmenkollen Ski Jump is open for business. And it is awesome:

The stainless steel structure is nearly 200 feet (58 meters) tall and the insane cantilever juts out some 226 feet (69 meters).

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