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...

COBE Architects   Denmark   The school is organized in different buildings which, like a campus, adopt the proportion and orientation of the existing ones. The contoured and organic profile of the Radiohuset, a landmark of modern Danish architecture, is replicated on the new fa

COBE Architects   Denmark   The geometry of the museum is inspired by traditional Danish fortresses. This silhouette generated by the roof – which rests on stone walls of dimensions similar to those of the old wall – merges the new building into the rolling landscape...

Snøhetta Werk Arkitekter   Denmark   In addition to promoting the practice of water activities and bringing different sports clubs into one building, the new facilities of a marina are meant to serve as a social hub for the locality.

Zaha Hadid Architects   Denmark   The team formed by Zaha Hadid Architects, Sweco, and Tredje Natur has won the competition to build a new football stadium in Aarhus, Denmark. The current stadium, which opened in 1920, does not meet the standards required for it to host first-tier pr

Snøhetta   Denmark   Situated near Jægersborg Deer Park, north of Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard houses Northern Europe’s most comprehensive collection of French and Danish art from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Originally built as a three-winged country mansion in the neo

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The FLUGT Refugee Museum of Denmark has officially opened in the town of Oksboel, at the site of the largest refugee camp from World War II. The 1,600-square-meter complex seeks to give voice to displaced people worldwide. The intervention has preser

Kengo Kuma   Denmark   The H.C. Andersen Hus museum in Odense had a preliminary presentation in June 2021 and has now officially opened. The new facilities – all of 5,600 square meters – rise beside the house where Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), the Danish author of

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The Danish firm led by Bjarke Ingels has unveiled its design for a new facility at the university hospital of Aarhus which combines scientific research – in psychiatry and the neurosciences – with medical care for people suffering physical and mental

CEBRA Architecture   Denmark   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

Dorte Mandrup   Denmark   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

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

Barozzi Veiga   Denmark   For several years now, the city of Aalborg is immersed in a transition from an industrial economy to one based on knowledge and culture. As part of that process, the project consists in transforming the Spritfabrikken, an old aquavit factory that ha

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   In the Wadden Sea National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located to the south of the peninsula of Jutland, this sculptural observation tower stands 25 meters tall and is a tourist attraction. With an elevator tucked into the core, it was built w

3XN   Denmark   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

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter - RRA   Denmark   In the fields of North Jutland, a food education center open to townspeople and visitors alike seeks to celebrate the region’s farming tradition and promote its rich cereal-based culture. Intended as a laboratory for experimentation in the processes

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

Snøhetta Werk Arkitekter   Denmark   The new Maritime Center, on the west coast town of Esbjerg, pays homage to the maritime tradition, inspired by the geometry and craftsmanship of boats. The center is situated in the newly built urban enlargement of Esbjerg Strand, containing multiple

Born into a family of architects and engineers, Dorte Mandrup (1961) nevertheless started out in ceramics and sculpture, interests in youth that still echo in the importance she gives to form in each and every one of her projects, all of which are ca

With over forty built works in different parts of the planet – and more than twice that number in projects, including one outside our orbit – the practice established in 2001 by Bjarke Ingels (Copenhagen, 1974) lives up to its name. From four offices

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 B

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

Having finished his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and worked for architects of renown, among them his fellow Dane Bjarke Ingels and the Dutch team MVRDV, Dan Stubbergaard (Copenhagen, 1974) founded COBE in 2005. He has since combin

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

Enrique Sobejano   Considering that Jørn Utzon’s architecture is based on a phenomenological and empirical experience that gravitates essentially around perceptive aspects like light, movement, topography, and materials, it may seem illogical to talk about projects whi

Marja-Riitta Norri   Jørn Utzon’s design method was hermeneutic and intuitive. His chief assistant Mogens Prip-Buus describes the team’s work method in Logbook 1 (the Courtyard Houses) as follows: “….we didn’t work on the basis or around theories, we merely tried to unde

Richard Weston   The development of Utzon’s designs – perhaps of most good designs? – seems to have been characterised by moments of insight punctuating protracted periods of hard work to explore their implications. Nowhere was this truer than in Sydney. The vital sp

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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   How does one get to Denmark? This is the question that drives the colossal work of Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay. The culmination of an endeavor begun in 2011 with The Origins of Political Order, this second volume describes t

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

Concebido como una topografía artificial que se inserta en el paisaje, el proyecto para la nueva escuela primaria de Asminderoed, Dinamarca, diseñada por la oficina de Bjarke Ingels, se adapta a las suaves pendientes del entorno natural en que se sit

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

Hace poco más de un año cambió su refugio mallorquín de Can Feliz por su Dinamarca natal. Tenía 90 años cumplidos y llevaba décadas alejado de la profesión, aunque colaboraba como asesor en los proyectos de sus hijos Kim y Jan. De un paro cardíaco, m