The search for powerful identifying images has made it increasingly usual for professionals of very different fields to join hands, hence the alliance between chef René Redzepi – owner of Noma, one of the world’s top restaurants – and the architect Bjarke Ingels, a fellow-Dane. The former commissioned the latter to design his new ‘intimate garden village.’ Subtly taking over a former military warehouse, built during World War i for the Royal Danish Navy, the project avails of a range of construction materials and techniques to come up with a reinterpretation of traditional Nordic architecture, which is always highly respectful towards the natural environment.