Posts Tagged ‘Copenhagen’
Copenhagen- and Rotterdam based architects Powerhouse Company have completed a spiral-shaped extension to a house in Burgundy, France. Called Spiral House, the extension is arranged around a central patio, where the visitors can enter the structure.
“We want a house with a twist, a house that has something something to say.”
The Spiral house is an extension of [...]
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Tags: ARCHITECTURE, Copenhagen, Denmark, House, Netherland
3XN Architects send me these pictures and info from their recent project, the Saxo Bank headquarters.
Visible from the lively cafes across the water, the new corporate headquarters for a Danish Investment Bank, Saxo Bank has been turning heads since its opening earlier this year. This striking building, with its playful patterns of white and glass facades, reflects [...]
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Tags: ARCHITECTURE, Copenhagen, Denmark, Interior
Mountain Dwellings, is a project consisting of apartments above a multi-storey car park designed by the Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group or BIG. The building is located in Copenhagen, next to VM Houses, completed by BIG and Julien de Smedt Architects in 2006.
The 80 apartments are arranged on a sloping “hillside” above the car park that has [...]
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Tags: ARCHITECTURE, Copenhagen, Denmark, House
Copenhagen’s harbour is in the midst of a transformation from an industrial port and traffic junction to being the cultural and social centre of the city. The Harbour Bath has been instrumental in this evolution. It extends the adjacent park over the water by incorporating the practical needs and demands for accessibility, safety and programmatic [...]
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Julien De Smedt Architects and Klar Architects, will redesign the harbour front at Kalvebod Brygge in Copenhagen, Denmark.
‘Bølgen’ (meaning is ‘wave’) is located in the newly established ‘Metropolzone’. The Metropolzone is a major develment project to upgrade a part of Copenhagen city centre which stretches from Kalvebod Brygge to St. Jørgens Lake. This project called [...]
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Tags: ARCHITECTURE, Competition, Copenhagen
CPH Arch spectacular proposal for a town gate in on Marmormolen in Copenhagen by 3XN Architects.
A bridge spanning a body of deep water, providing the only dry connection between two stretches of land, is one of the most powerful architectural experiences in the landscape. Another classical element is the town gate, which marks the boundary [...]
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The VM Houses, shaped like a V and M when you see them from above, is the first residential project that is built in the new district of Copenhagen, kown as Ørestaden. The VM Houses are designed by PLOT= BIG+JDS
Info from cphx.dk [more info and pictures click here..]
Imagine living in a building shaped like the [...]
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Again in Copenhagen, the Tivoli Concert Hall by 3XN Architects.
In 2004, 3XN was awarded the prestigious task of performing the renovation and extensions of the Concert Hall in Tivoli, a famous old amusement park in Copenhagen. They restored the concert hall, focusing on keeping the unique Tivoli spirit. The concert hall was the largest and most [...]
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A sports and culture centre in Copenhagen by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps and b&k brandlhuber & co. [Via archdaily]
The boldness of this project lies in the simple idea of making a new kind of crossover building between the traditional typology of the indoor sports arena and the outdoor sports field.
The polycarbonate skin is a very unusual [...]
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Another project, located near Copehagen in Denmark by Zaha Hadid Architect: Ordrupgaard Art Museum.
Ordrupgaard is a state-owned art museum under the Danish Ministry of Culture located near Copenhagen. In 2005, Ordrupgaard reopened the museum with a significant addition, an extension that was designed by the internationally acclaimed Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid.*
Zaha Hadid’s proposal won a [...]
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