Tegnestuen Vandskusten, Diana’s Have Housing, Horsholm

When the Second World War came to an end, the Nordic countries, though still strongly related by similar culture, were in very different economic shape. Finland had fought the Russians twice, then the Germans, and in the process had lost important parts of its territory and had large areas of the remainder (particularly in the north) devastated. The Nazi occupation of Norway had been brutal and in the course of fighting, the north was ravaged, as were some of its west-coast towns and areas key to the economy elsewhere. Denmark's occupation was rather more benign, and there had been less destruction, but like everywhere else in the Nazi empire, the nation had faced great deprivations...[+]