Henning Larsen   Faroe Islands   Situated within a picturesque fjord and protected against the Atlantic’s harsh winds while offering views of the neighboring islands, Klaksvík is the second-largest town in the Faroe Islands. The firm Henning Larsen was commissioned to design an urba

Henning Larsen   France   Henning Larsen, in collaboration with Brière Architectes, has won the competition to raise building B777 at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN for its French initials), specifically on its campus in Prévessin-Moëns, close to the bor

Henning Larsen   Czech Republic   The Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects, in collaboration with the engineers of the Ramboll group, has won the competition to transform the main railway station of the city of Prague. The project reconnects the historic station with the Vrchlického

Henning Larsen   Denmark   In 2006, in the Danish city of Vejle, work began on this 14,000-square-meter complex of 100 apartments. Two of the five towers were completed and it stayed that way for years, thanks to the global financial crisis of 2008, which brought construction

Henning Larsen   Faroe Islands   This building for the municipality of Eystur dilutes its edges amid nature with a passable green roof that crosses the river. The designer is Osbjørn Jacobsen, Faroese partner of the Scandinavian firm Henning Larsen, and author too, of the Harpa Conc

Henning Larsen   Germany   The concert hall is a musical ‘production plant’ and seeks permeability by placing entrances on four of its sides; the facade plays with transparencies and different materials – copper, cor-ten steel, and glass – subtly showing the interior activitie

Henning Larsen   Iceland   In spite of the economic crisis, Iceland saw the completion of its most iconic building: Harpa. Its skin has been designed in collaboration with the artist Olafur Eliasson. 

Henning Larsen   Faroe Islands   The intervention scatters the buildings to break the dominant unidirectional winds to which the city is exposed due to its situation in between two opposite mountain ridges...

Henning Larsen   Denmark   The practice set up in the year 1959 by the architect Henning Larsen, one of Denmark’s most established architects, has also been selected to participate in the competition with a proposal that focusses on treating the landscape and integrating it in

Henning Larsen   Denmark   Presided by the small baroque church after which it is named, the historic quarter of Christianshavn looks over the main canal of Copenhagen combining in a small distance the alternative area of Christiania with new buildings that have emerged attrac

Henning Larsen   Denmark   A plot on the north coast of Seeland, the Danish island where Copenhagen lies, was chosen to build a holiday residence. Immerse in a forest of birch trees, the terrain in question – a hill with a slight slope towards the south – lies 55 meters above

The brutalist Grieg Hall with which the Norwegian city of Bergen honored its most universal musician will soon have another auditorium to show for, designed by the Danish firm Henning Larsen as a sinuous building next to the original. In addition to

The Economist   Modern timber buildings can be cheap, green and fireproof.There is a global race to build the tallest wooden skyscraper. The record was held by Mjostarnet, an 85-metre tower on the shore of Lake Mjosa in Norway, which hosts flats, a hotel and a swimm

Forbes   David Nikel   Sweden’s northernmost town is on the move, building by building. Because of the risk posed by expanding mining operations, the entire town center of Kiruna is being relocated approximately two miles to the east. More than 20 buildings of historical v

Henning Larsen   Henning Larsen Architects has been selected for the expansion and transformation of the French Opéra Bastille, the largest opera house in Paris

1925 - 2013 Henning Larsen passed away in Copenhagen a few weeks after receiving the Mies van der Rohe Award for the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik. A graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, trained under another illustrious Dane, Jørn Ut

Harpa Building The Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, by the Danish studio Henning Larsen Architects with the artist Olafur Eliasson and the local studio Batteríid won the 2013 Mies van der Rohe Award. The biennial award, endowed with 60,000 euros, ack

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

The Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center in Reykjavik, by the Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects, designed in collaboration with the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson and the local studio Batteriid, is the 2013 winner of the biennial Mie

Henning Larsen The Imperial House of Japan and the Japan Art Association have every year since 1989 been awarding the Praemium Imperiale, endowed with 15 million Yen (132,000 euros), to five artists in painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and ci

Una espectacular fachada diseñada en colaboración con el artista Olafur Eliasson es la protagonista del nuevo auditorio y centro de conferencias que acaban de construir los daneses de Henning Larsen en Reikiavik. El edificio, que alberga tres salas d

El estudio danés Henning Larsen junto al arquitecto canario Carlos Morales se han alzado con el primer premio del concurso para la construcción del Palacio de Congresos de Lanzarote en Arrecife, capital de la isla. Presentado como una roca de lava fr

Félix Solaguren-Beascoa   Con motivo del nonagésimo aniversario del arquitecto Jørn Utzon, nacido en Copenhague el 9 de abril de 1918, acaban de aparecer dos nuevos volúmenes: Sketches. A Tribute to Jørn Utzon, de Arkitektens Forlag y la monografía titulada Kuwait National As