EFFEKT   Denmark   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

COBE Architects Arcgency Drachmann Arkitekter    Denmark   A Danish team comprising the architects Cobe, Arcgency, and Drachmann, in collaboration with engineers from Sweco, has won the competition to design the future Danish Parliament in Copenhagen. The project includes a visitor center and an underground

COBE Architects   Denmark   In the heart of the densely urbanized historic center of the Danish capital is this island with vegetation distributed in six gardens and a greenhouse representing different parts of the world. Located next to The Royal Danish Opera, in what used to

COBE Architects   Denmark   Due to the poor condition of the existing buildings, the new design had to be based on tearing everything down and building from scratch. The architectural type of the industrial warehouse served as a programmatic premise for the complex. The warehou

COBE Architects Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter Tredje Natur   Denmark   The ground floor of the building is accessible to all and will become an attraction for the up-and-coming Nordhavn neighborhood. In this way the project underlines the client’s call for a friendly, transparent, and responsive dwelling. The facade des

COBE Architects   Denmark   Imitating each one of the strata of an opera stage, the park is a composed landscape with a foreground, a middle ground, and a background. The plants and trees are placed so their natural heights create the scenic setting facing the harbor. Urban par

COBE Architects   Denmark   The neighborhoods are developed section by section, each with its own character, to shape a lively and diverse urban district. The workshops and remaining buildings become spaces that enhance and coexist with the cultural heritage surroundings...

Wilkinson+Eyre   Denmark   This 160-meter-long bridge for cyclists and pedestrians falls under a plan to revitalize part of the Danish capital’s harbor, which has been underused for decades. Built next to OMA’s BLOX building, it allows water traffic through two rotating sectio

COBE Architects   Denmark   Designed to take in 750 children in the heart of Copenhagen, the school is envisioned as a city in itself, with its own neighborhoods, squares, parks, houses, and public buildings. Involving a combination of types and solutions, diverse and fun, the

COBE Architects   Denmark   With an area of 20,000 square meters, Karen Blixen Plads is one of Copenhagen’s largest squares. Located within a strategic enclave between the city university’s South Campus and the Royal Danish Library, the new public space arose from adopting a co

Kengo Kuma   Denmark   Water – its different states, the reflections of light and shadows on its surface, and the humid atmosphere it creates – is the guiding thread of this proposal that doesn’t intend to create just one object, but an experience in the form of landscape,

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The circular shape of the Panda House solves the problems arising from the complex conditions of the site, at the intersection of walkways between Copenhagen Zoo’s elephant, monkey, and Nordic fauna sections. At the same time, the circularity present

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group HFF   Denmark   Bjarke Ingels, of the Danish firm BIG, and Simon Frommenwiler, founder of the Basel studio HHF, created this installation that was set up for three days in the garden of the Swiss Embassy in Copenhagen. The volume is made up of geometric blocks in pi

COBE Architects   Denmark   This urban intervention is the result of an in-depth dialogue with the local community, thanks to which over a decade of failed polemics and proposals has come to an end.

COBE Architects   Denmark   The building presents a series of spaces of different sizes and functions that together bring up the idea of a village community formed by combinations of small dwellings.

COBE Architects   Denmark   The transformation of an old grain silo into a building that mixes residential and public uses was part of an overall plan to redevelop the Danish capital’s Nordhavn industrial port.

COBE Architects   Denmark   The enlargement of the Red Cross’s Danish headquarters pursues two main objectives: to create a place for volunteers to meet and work in, and to give the city a new public space.

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The Amager Resource Center (ARC) is located in a port and industrial area of Copenhagen which has undergone several reconversion plans over the past years. The port area has turned into an extreme sport destination for thrill seekers. Different sport

Krupinski/Krupinska Arkitekter   Denmark   The pavilion is placed within the park’s paths following the orthogonal geometry of the gardens, replacing the rhythm of the tree trunks with that of the pillars and the discontinuous shade of the foliage with that of the timber deck... [+]

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The circular shape of the Panda House solves the problems arising from the complex conditions of the site, at the intersection of walkways between Copenhagen Zoo’s elephant, monkey, and Nordic fauna sections. At the same time, the circularity present

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   Recent years have shown a substantial and sustained increase in the number of students applying to university throughout Denmark. As the number of students continues to grow – and this includes a large number of foreign ones –, additional housing wil

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   Lejerbo is a non-profit affordable housing association in Denmark with several branches around the country, managing a total of 38.000 residential units. Within the ‘Homes for All’ initiative, in 2010 the Copenhagen office entrusted BIG with the desi

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   Created by the Danish chef René Redzepi, Noma is considered one of the top restaurants in the world. The original Noma closed in late 2016 with the idea of opening anew on the northern tip of Christianshavns Vold – the remains of a rampart which was

Amid ecological pomp the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II, inaugurated Copenhagen Zoo’s brand new Panda House, a pavilion carried out by Bjarke Ingels at a cost of 24 million euros. Beyond evoking yin and yang, the unique circular indoor-outdoor enclos

The New York Times   Lisa Abend   It was designed by Bjarke Ingels, the renowned Danish architect, and cost $24 million to build. It was inaugurated by Queen Margrethe II, Denmark’s reigning monarch. And it now accommodates a celebrity couple with peculiar eating habits and an almost

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Bjarke Ingels   Bjarke Ingels is ecstatic. His son, Darwin, is now one week old, and both baby and mother, the Spanish architect Ruth Otero, are the main characters in the photographic archive of his cell phone, which shows the boundless happiness of his recent fath

Kenneth Frampton   The illusory somewhat agricultural character of the Bagsværd Church, designed soon after Jørn Utzon’s return to Denmark from Australia, seems to confirm that in a secular age spiritual structures may be more effectively evoked through the evocation o

Two strategies frequented by Rem Koolhaas from the start are hybridization and stacking, the concepts behind his Blox. Hybridization because it contains apartments, shops, offices, restoration workshops, and a museum, besides the new Danish Architect

On 22 June, a few weeks after receiving the Mies van der Rohe Award for the Harpa Concert Hall, completed in Reykjavik, Finland, in 2011, Henning Larsen passed away in Copenhagen. A graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, trained under a

Organized by the Danish company Velux and under the title of ‘New Eyes on Existing Buildings’, the fifth biennial Congress on Natural Lighting was held on the 15th and 16th of May at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. If previous ed

En Nørrebro, uno de los barrios con mayor densidad étnica de Copenhague (en él conviven hasta sesenta nacionalidades), el equipo formado por BIG, Topotek1 y el colectivo de artistas Superflex acaba de terminar una dotación llamada a ser un vehículo d

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

El muelle de Langelinie, conocido por albergar la diminuta Sirenita de Copenhague, se reconvierte. A los pies de las dos torres unidas por un puente encargadas a Steven Holl se construirá la nueva sede de la entidad financiera FIH. En el concurso por

A las afueras de la capital danesa, en un entorno sin referentes salpicado por anónimos edificios de viviendas y oficinas, se eleva el nuevo Auditorio de Copenhague, un misterioso cubo de 43 metros de lado, envuelto en una llamativa piel translúcida

En la municipalidad de Rødovre, al este del centro de Copenhague, el estudio holandés MVRDV junto al despacho local ADEPT construirán una de las pocas torres de usos mixtos de la zona. Con 116 metros de altura, 21.688 metros cuadrados y bautizado com

El estudio de Steven Holl ha ganado el concurso internacional titulado ‘Proyecto LM’ para la construcción de la espectacular entrada al puerto de Copenhague. Dos torres, Langenlinie y Marmormolen, estarán unidas por un puente de acceso público situad