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The Niels Bohr Building / Christensen & Co. Architects + Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 06:00:00 +0000

The Niels Bohr Building is an iconic home for the Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen. The building provides the university with highly specialized research facilities and community-building spaces. Here, students, professors, and researchers come together in a non-hierarchical research community. The architectonic concept of the Niels Bohr Building is inspired by the heritage of the well-known Danish scientist Niels Bohr and the international science scene he created in Copenhagen in the 1920s and 1930s.

Mungo Park Theatre / Christensen & Co. Architects

Paula Pintos — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The newest addition to Mungo Park Theatre breathes life into the city center of Allerød and will be the face of the theatre to the outside world. The new, square theatre building has a dynamic façade that creates visibility around the theatre’s activities. The façade is wooden and organized into modules, which gives the building a warm and welcoming atmosphere.

B357 Research Hub / Christensen & Co. Architects

Paula Pintos — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

DTU B357, Space for knowledge sharing. The test center strengthens the university’s leading position in the research of electromagnetic systems and is the home to students and researchers of DTU Electro Institute. The building houses research facilities, including radio-silent laboratories, meeting facilities, and classrooms. The facility holds a large education laboratory with an affiliated study area. Here, the architecture is designed to facilitate an interdisciplinary research environment among researchers, businesses, and students. The building’s architecture elaborates on the existing built environment of the campus.

DTU B112 Research Hub / Christensen & Co Architects

Valeria Silva — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 11:00:00 +0000

The open and visionary building, B112, creates a framework for knowledge sharing and innovation. Here researchers and students experiment with the recycling of resources in advanced, functional laboratories where the working environment is state-of-the-art. Glass walls between the laboratories encourage collaboration across disciplines, just as warm break-out spaces encourage organic encounters between people.

Nordøstmager School / Christensen & Co Architects

Valeria Silva — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 07:00:00 +0000

A Communal Epicenter for Learning. Learning and Community. The new school at Amager in Copenhagen is an open and inviting house, where every inch of the architecture offers spaces for learning. A central feature of the school is the leisure zone, which we have weaved into the fabric of the city by letting the school’s architecture melt with the surrounding area. The zone has multiple functions that invite by-passers to interact with the school. Towards the street, we have designed the building as community architecture with large staircases that function as both seating plateaus and workout spaces.

Viby Library & Culture House / Christensen & Co. Architects + Primus Arkitekter

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 03:00:00 +0000

Danish gabled roof connects past and future. The brand-new culture house and library is the new living room for the small town of Viby in Denmark. The building is a place for lingering and staying, as well as a shortcut permeating the urban space of the town. This is achieved through a focus on social zones, open architecture, and accessibility. The project was created by a team consisting of Christensen & Co Architects, Skou Gruppen, Primus Arkitekter, Sted Landskab and WSP.

Odsherred Theatre / Christensen & Co Architects + Primus Arkitekter

Andreas Luco — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Odsherred Theatre is a laboratory of performance. Odsherred Theatre is a contemporary laboratory of culture and a local social hub for the entire city. In other words, it is a performance space for social interaction. We have specifically designed the theatre's architecture as a cultural catalyst that actively engages with the local community. This includes a new urban space created at the main entrance, flowing out into the pedestrian street, central to the city. Here an intimate urban square offers the local community access to a set of urban furniture designed for leisure and play. The small street scene at Odsherred Theatre's main entrance provides the ideal setting for small happenings and improvisations that intervene in the pedestrians’ everyday life.

Linneaus University in Kalmar / Christensen & Co. Architects

Andreas Luco — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 19:00:00 +0000

Linneaus University is a city-integrated university that contributes to Kalmar’s city center. In the project Christensen & CO Architects have focused on creating a framework for meetings between researchers, students, the trade and industry, and the public sector since these meetings can lead to the birth of creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial ideas. These ideas contribute to development on a regional as well as on a national and international level.

Life Science Bioengineering B202 / Christensen & Co. Architects + Rørbæk & Møller Arkitekter

Rayen Sagredo — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 03:00:00 +0000

The new building for Life Science and Bioengineering is the largest project since the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) was inaugurated in the 1960s. In a respectful yet innovative transformation of the original architecture, the façade of gold-anodized and black-lacquered aluminum is broken into sections with niches and balconies that create a vibrant sense of scale.

K.B. Hall / Christensen & Co. Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 06:00:00 +0000

Reviving a cultural icon
In 2011 one of Denmark’s most iconic culture venues burnt to the ground. Since 1938, the K.B. Hall has been a driving force behind some of the most significant concerts and events in Copenhagen. Now the hall will be revived in a contemporary architectural interpretation based on three principles: the Gable, the Disk and the Arch.

Forsyning Helsingør Operations Center / Christensen & Co. Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 01:00:00 +0000

The design for Helsingør Power Plant´s new HQ supports the narrative about the municipality’s sustainable supply technologies – from wastewater treatment to energy and waste handling. The project comprises the Cube and Operating Facilities, two buildings that will stand adjacent to the power plant with its distinctive architecture. The facility forms a protective shield around the central working area while screening the surroundings from noise.

KTH Educational Building / Christensen & Co. Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 02:00:00 +0000

KTH Educational Building – A learning experience
The new multi-functional educational centre for the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm is a learning environment for educating building designers and constructional engineers. The building is also accessible to the entire KTH Campus and is a flexible learning laboratory. The spiralling layout of the spatialities of the building is like a textbook in practice, where easily readable constructions and installations can be used for teaching purposes.

Youth Housing, Nansensgade / Christensen & Co. Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The compact infill holds nine small apartments for socially vulnerable citizens. The building site is only 10 meters wide, this physical limitation of the architecture is turned into a design quality, as only two apartments to each floor gives the young inhabitants a sense of privacy, while also giving them the security of being part of a community. Each apartment has its own kitchen and a bathroom along with a niche for relaxing while enjoying the view of one of Copenhagen’s most vibrant streets. Outside, the facade is clad in coppery warm toned aluminum and has a relief motive; apart from creating variation and vibrancy in the urban environment, the protruding bay windows offer views down the street from each apartment niche.

NOKKEN Kindergarten / Christensen & Co Architects

Daniela Cardenas — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 03:00:00 +0000

The new Kindergarten and nursery is placed by the sea, on the tip of Islands Brygge in Copenhagen and the architecture is designed in accordance with the surrounding existing buildings, an area characterised by small boathouses and small dwellings. While still in the capital of Denmark, the children will have a daily life filled with fresh sea air and the sound of seagulls.

The greenest City Hall in Sweden / Christensen & Co Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The City Hall, also known as the Crystal (Kristallen), stands as an iconic frame with a profound social impact and an ambitious green profile, using only a fraction of the energy normally consumed by this type of building. The first step of The City Hall was completed in 2014 and hosts 13.500m² of Citizen Service Centre. When fully completed, the building will have 25.000m² of offices, conference facilities, a public ground floor and a green rooftop terrace that overlooks the city of Lund and its surroundings all the way to Denmark.

Soil Centre Copenhagen / Christensen & Co Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Green Lighthouse / Christensen & Co Architects

Jonathan Alarcón — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Green Lighthouse is Denmark’s first CO2 neutral public building and home to the Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen. The building’s circular shape and the adjustable louvers of the façade mirror the course of the sun. The sun being the predominant source of energy is the overriding design concept behind the new building. Green Lighthouse is based on a whole new experiment with an energy concept, consisting of a supply combination of district heating, photo voltaic, solar heating and - cooling and seasonal storage. 70% of the reduction of the energy consumption is the direct consequence of architectural design. "With the sun as the predominant source of energy, the building's round shape and the adjustable louvers of the facade mirror the course of the sun around the building." This is how Michael Christensen, architect, director and founder of Christensen & Co. architects explains the overriding design concept of the new building.

DTU Compute / Christensen & Co Architects

Jonathan Alarcón — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 01:00:00 +0000

At DTU, north of Copenhagen, Copenhagen based Danish architect firm Christensen & Co Architect´s has created a new building which is already shaping up to be an innovative, new research and learning environment. Presently, researchers, teachers and students are settling in to the new building, called DTU Compute, and it has already become a landmark of the university's high ambitions. The explanation is found in the architecture, which has been developed to stimulate and strengthen the sharing of scientific ideas and knowledge.