Architecture can profoundly affect our behavior, emotions, and physical health. With this in mind, Dorte Mandrup has designed a center to encourage physical activity and improve the well-being of people struggling with life-style related diseases...
The result of a collaborative effort of the VELUX Group, the architects at EFFEKT, and the engineers of Artelia, Living Places Copenhagen presents seven real-scale prototypes in the Jernbanebyen neighborhood of the Danish capital. Five open pavilions
En una ciudad conocida por su clima extremo, un espacio consagrado a las artes escénicas despliega sus sinuosas formas como si hubiese sido moldeado por los severos elementos. Como una topografía que emerge de los humedales circundantes, el centro re
With its angular forms clad in Robinia wood, the new kindergarten of a small coastal village evokes the image of traditional fishermen houses in the historical province of Scania. Located between the beach and the village, the new center for early ed
Skamlingsbanken is a lateral moraine that was formed during the last ice age (22,000-25,000 years ago). Belonging to the Danish municipality of Kolding, this visitor center is embedded in the ground, forming another hill in the rolling landscape. Mea
The thorough renovation of the visitor center went hand in hand with an expansion designed to complete one’s experience of the world’s largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats. The original massing was modified in a way that would mak
On Greenland’s rugged coastal landscape, a twisted triangular structure offers a point from which to observe the area’s icebergs as well as a hub for residents and visitors alike. Minimizing contact with the ground in order to allow natural surface r
A work of the Aarhus-based firm 3XN, the building is characterized by a wooden ‘wave’ over the main entrance, a reference to the fishing boat-building tradition of Lemvig, a port city on Denmark’s west coast. The concave form incorporates a play of s
Located in the Arctic Circle, the project transforms and connects the two existing buildings, and dialogs with them through color and the pattern of the faceted facades of Jura Stone of the new volume, whose angles capture the changing northern light
Olympic House has officially opened in Lausanne, Switzerland, in a public park that is home to the 18th-century Château de Vidy, on the shore of Lake Geneva. Seeking the highest level of integration with the natural and historical setting, the Danish
The Scandinavian firm C.F. Møller has completed new facilities for the International School Ikast-Brande in Ikast, a Danish town in the Central Jutland Region. Surrounded by outdoor sports areas, ‘The Heart’ is a building formed by a series of blocks
The copper-covered shutters that wrap the building’s facade open and close automatically, depending on the weather changes, adjusting daylight conditions and ensuring a comfortable indoor climate.
A set of stacked boxes, covered with a light facade of perforated aluminum panels – according to a pattern that illustrates how the air flow changes when it meets resistance – are offset from the base, where the existing brickwork is preserved... [+]
Visitors arriving at Copenhagen airport will soon be able to discern a sea-facing volume of unmistakable organic forms. It is the so-called Blue Planet, the city’s new aquarium. With capacity to hold seven million liters of water, the building contai
En los países de habla alemana, las ciudades balneario suelen llevar el prefijo Bad (baño). La mayoría se desarrollaron durante el siglo XIX alrededor de fuentes termales con propiedades curativas. Al oeste de Rosenheim, a unos 60 kilómetros al sures
Last year the Chinese president Xi Jinping condemned the “weird architecture” that was proliferating in the country, often thanks to foreign architects, and announced a period in which buildings would tend to be designed with a certain patriotic spir
El estudio danés Lundgaard y Tranberg ha completado el Teatro Real en el puerto de Copenhague: un volumen de fuerte entidad geométrica volcado al mar gracias a la pasarela de madera que permite a los paseantes caminar por encima del agua y al gran ve
