The Next Green
Innovation in Sustainable Design
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COBE | Nordhavnen
Denmark – COBE architects, a portmanteau of the cities Copenhagen and Berlin, is a firm that is currently in working on several projects within Denmark and beyond. Despite the firm’s young age, they’ve received some high-profile commissions within the Danish capital, including Norreport Station and Papiroen Island. One of COBE’s most recently completed projects is…
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Tietgen Dormitory
Denmark – One of the most recognizable buildings on Copenhagen University’s campus is the Tietgen Dormitory, located just south of the city center. Architects Lundgaard & Tranberg envisioned a circular form that would suggest both the collective and individual spirits of its residents. Our visit was complemented by two guides: one was architect Peter Thorsen,…
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Visit to DTU Compute – Christensen & Co
Denmark – We were fortunate last week to have Michael Christensen, Creative Director and Founding Partner of Christensen & Co., give us a tour of some of their projects at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). One of these projects, the DTU Compute building, is an anomaly within the IIT-inspired campus of low brick buildings.…
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Visit to Henning Larsen
Denmark – Henning Larsen Architects is a well-established global firm that we visited in Denmark, whose projects range from large-scale masterplans of urban districts to wayfinding for interior design. Despite this incredible diversity, we learned that Henning Larsen’s work is characterized by their dedication to research into sustainable innovation, especially from the dozen PhD students…
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Visit to Musholm – AART
Denmark – While we often denote sustainability with environmental advances in energy efficiency, the broader meaning of sustainable architecture in Denmark includes social and economic sustainability as well. We visited a great example of an architectural response to social sustainability, the Musholm project in Korsør, Denmark, by AART architects. This holiday and sports facility is one…
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Visit to UN City – 3XN/GXN
Denmark – Yesterday we visited 3XN/GXN’s studio in an old gunboat shed in Holmen, Copenhagen. We learned about their combined research and architecture divisions and saw some of GXN’s material research first hand. To learn more about this research, see one of our previous posts. They gave us a rare, behind-the-scenes tour of the UN City building…
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Visit to Bo01 Development | Malmo, Sweden
Sweden – Today we visited the “City of Tomorrow,” otherwise known as Bo01 in Malmö, Sweden. The site of a former brownfield along the city’s western harbour was developed beginning in 2000 as part of an international housing exhibition, and Bo01 is as much a modern architectural endeavour as it was a testing ground for…
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We’re off to Denmark!
We are excited to embark on the Denmark leg of our Prix de Rome research trip today! Starting on Monday we will temporarily divert from our weekly post schedule with daily posts for 8 days journaling our findings from Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden. We will be posting about the innovative projects that we encounter…