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BIG Shortlisted In Competition to Design Denmark’s Largest Hospital

August 24, 2013

BIG, WHR and Arup have been shortlisted alongside two other design teams to participate in the second phase of the design competition for what will be Denmark’s largest hospital. The 124,000 square meter facility, known as the Nyt Hospital Nordsjælland, is planned to be built north of Copenhagen.

According to the jury, “BIG’s ideas, together with the large green spaces and green surfaces, mean that we really can talk about a healing hospital in the best possible interpretation of the concept.”

We will keep you updated as details of the other shortlisted teams emerge.

'Live Between Buildings!': New Vision of Loft 2 Competition Entry / Mateusz Mastalski + Ole Robin Storjohann

August 08, 2013

Mateusz Mastalski + Ole Robin Storjohann shared with us their 'Live Between Buildings!' proposal for the New Vision of Loft 2 Competition organized by Fakro, which aims to create a new way of living in the city. Infills between existing buildings that consist almost entirely of Fakro window technology enable a life hyper-close to nature and city life, while on the same time exploiting the qualities of the already existing blind walls of the city. With minimal footprint and facade surface, but a maximum of living quality, the Live Between Buildings! project contributes to a denser, more sustainable city of the future.

The Cliff / Mangor & Nagel

July 14, 2013

Architects: Mangor & Nagel
Area: 2000 m²
Year: 2012
Professionals: MT Højgaard

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UN City / 3XN

July 04, 2013

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Architects: 3XN
Area: 20000 m²
Year: 2013
Manufacturers: CSK Stålindustri A/S
Professionals: CPH City & Port Development, E. Pihl & Søn A/S, Orbicon

Parametric Space / Zaha Hadid Architects, Kollision, CAVI, Wahlberg

July 02, 2013

Zaha Hadid Architects worked together with design offices Kollision, CAVI and Wahlberg to create the interactive installation 'Parametric Space' for the exhibition 'Zaha Hadid - World Architecture', which is on view at the Danish Architecture Centre through September 29, 2013. The installation is a fully parametric space that reacts to the visitors' movements by changing shape and expression. Learn more after the break.

Zaha Hadid - World Architecture Exhibition

June 28, 2013

Opening Friday, June 28, the Zaha Hadid - World Architecture exhibition will be the first solo show in Copenhagen, which runs until September 29. Iraqi-British architect and Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Zaha Hadid is one of the most sought after, admired and discussed architects in the world, and has developed this extraordinary experience in collaboration with the Danish Architecture Centre. The pre-opening talk begins on opening day at 5:00pm with Patrik Schumacher (director and senior designer at Zaha Hadid Architects), and Kent Martinussen (CEO - Danish Architecture Centre). For more information, please visit here.

AlmenBolig+ Affordable Housing Winning Proposal / JAJA + ONV

June 23, 2013

ONV Arkitekter and JAJA Architects recently won the 4th delivery of the affordable housing concept AlmenBolig+ in collaboration with Bascon and ScandiByg. Consisting of 3-400 housing units on sites in and around Copenhagen, their winning proposal offers a huge variation of housing sizes and building typologies. Also, by using the prefab module, this ensures a free and flexible design of each area. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Ama'r Children's Culture House / Dorte Mandrup

June 18, 2013

Architects: Dorte Mandrup: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter
Year: 2013
Manufacturers: Troldtekt

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Halfdansgade 8 / Danielsen Architecture

June 04, 2013

Architects: Danielsen Architecture
Area: 1944 m²
Year: 2008

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Terminal Conection / Danielsen Architecture

June 01, 2013

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Architects: Danielsen Architecture
Area: 4500 m²
Year: 2007
Manufacturers: Bona, Gyptone

Construction begins on OMA’s Bryghusprojektet in Copenhagen

May 17, 2013

OMA has broke ground on a 27,000 square meter, mixed-use development on the banks of Copenhagen’s historic waterfront in the culturally rich Slotsholmen district. Upon its completion in early 2017, Bryghusprojektet will become the new headquarters for the Danish Architecture Centre (DAC), while also providing housing, offices, retail, a restaurant, and an urban park. These programs will be stacked over and under the busy Christians Brygge, providing city dwellers direct and uninterrupted access to the water’s edge.

OMA Partner-in-charge Ellen van Loon explained: “Instead of stacking a mixed-use program in a traditional way, we positioned the DAC in the centre of the volume, surrounded by and embedded within its objects of study: housing, offices and parking. The urban routes reach into the heart of the building and create a broad range of interactions between the different program parts and the urban environment.”

More images and the architects' description after the break...

Dome of Visions / Kristoffer Tejlgaard + Benny Jepsen

April 25, 2013

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Architects: Benny Jepsen, Kristoffer Tejlgaard
Area: 346 m²
Year: 2013

4B / Holscher Nordberg Architecture and Planning

April 19, 2013

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Architects: Holscher Nordberg Architecture and Planning
Area: 580 m²
Year: 2008

BIG’s Waste-to-Energy Plant Breaks Ground, Breaks Schemas

March 05, 2013

There are many things that set BIG’s latest project, Amager Bakke, apart. The plant, which broke ground yesterday, will be the cleanest waste-to-energy plant in the world. It will be the tallest and biggest building in Copenhagen. It will house Denmark’s first ski-slope (on the roof of the plant, no less). It will emit its CO2 emissions - not as a continuous stream of smoke, oh no - but in sudden, bursting smoke rings.

However, the Amager Bakke waste-to-energy Plant is far more than the sum of its rather remarkable features. As an urban “destination in itself” and a landmark in environmental design, it’s one of the most radical representations of architecture as a means of public engagement of our time. And, what’s more, it’s a signal that BIG has finally reached maturity, truly coming into its own as a firm.

Read more about BIG’s remarkable Amager Bakke waste-to-energy plant, after the break....

Sluseholmen / Arkitema + Sjoerd Soeters

February 14, 2013

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Architects: Arkitema, Sjoerd Soeters
Area: 135000 m²
Year: 2008
Professionals: Arkitema, Sjoerd Soeters, Niras, COWI

Ejby Campus Winning Proposal / OKRA, CCO, ACT, and Smith Innovation

February 13, 2013

OKRA, in collaboration with CCO, ACT, and Smith Innovation, recently won the competition for their Ejby Campus Business area proposal located in the Glostrup Commune near Copenhagen. Their sustainable and innovative development strategy focuses on the creation of a diverse program and the use of public space. With the opportunity to rethink the business areas of suburbia, the business area currently plays an important role in providing economically attractive workplaces in an accessible, open and green setting. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Fire Shelter: 01 / SHJ Works

January 31, 2013

Designed by SHJ (Simon Hjermind Jensen) Works, Fire Shelter: 01 is a personal project located in at Sydhavnstippen in Copenhagen. Taking inspiration from architecture of ethnic and nomadic people, the starting point for the design emerged from a fascination of the place. It´s a temporary project and a design experiment that aims to celebrate the place. The project has public access, and it establishes experiences of spatial and social character. More images and architect’s description after the break.

Nørrebrohallen / AG5

January 25, 2013

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Architects: AG5
Year: 2009

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