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LEGO taps BIG and RAA to design the LEGO Brand House, a public LEGO museum and experience center, in Denmark

2013-03-12T18:27:00-04:00

“It is one of our great dreams at BIG that we are now able to design a building for and with the LEGO Group. I owe a huge personal debt to the LEGO brick, and I can see in my nephews that its role in developing the child as a creative, thinking, imaginative human being becomes ever stronger in a world in which creativity and innovation are key elements in virtually all aspects of society,” says Bjarke Ingels, founder and partner, BIG.

World’s Biggest Ski Dome, Anyone? Design by CEBRA

2012-11-15T17:41:00-05:00

Danish firm CEBRA has shared with us its adventurous project Skidome Denmark, a vision for the 'world’s biggest ski dome' in the city of Randers, Denmark.

Henning Larsen Named 2012 Praemium Imperiale Laureate for Architecture

2012-09-12T19:31:00-04:00

The 2012 winners of the prestigious Praemium Imperiale arts awards were announced today by the Japan Art Association at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The five recipients in their respective fields are Henning Larsen (Architecture, Denmark), Philip Glass (Music, USA), Cai Guo-Qiang (Painting, China), Cecco Bonanotte (Sculpture, Italy), and Yoko Morishita (Theater/Film, Japan).

Henning Larsen Architects Wins Egedal Town Hall and Health Center Competition

2012-09-04T15:06:00-04:00

Henning Larsen Architects and a group consisting of turnkey contractor Züblin, landscape architect SLA and consulting engineers Henrik Larsen and Jørgen Nielsen have won the competition for a new Town Hall and Health Center in Egedal, Denmark. The building will be the center of the new, merged Egedal Municipality near Copenhagen.

BIG at the Danish Pavilion in Venice

2012-08-23T15:36:00-04:00

BIG in collaboration with TENU, Julie Hardenberg and Inuk Silas Høgh present Connecting Greenland: AIR+PORT as a part of the exhibition “POSSIBLE GREENLAND” at the Danish Biennale di Venezia Pavilion, exploring the potentials and challenges that Greenland is facing as the country gains global attention.

Click here to see more Archinect News posts related to the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

In Denmark, Pedaling to Work on a Superhighway

2012-07-19T15:00:00-04:00

The cycle superhighway, which opened in April, is the first of 26 routes scheduled to be built to encourage more people to commute to and from Copenhagen by bicycle. More bike path than the Interstate its name suggests, it is the brainchild of city planners who were looking for ways to increase bicycle use in a place where half of the residents already bike to work or to school every day.

COBE Wins 2012 Nykredit Architecture Prize

2012-05-15T14:45:00-04:00

Copenhagen-based firm COBE, represented by architect Dan Stubbergaard, is the 2012 winner of Scandinavia's prestigious architecture prize, Nykredit's Architecture Prize of DKK 500,000 (USD 86,000).

Printable house presents new paradigm in eco-architecture

2012-05-04T20:58:00-04:00

Danish architects are building a digitally fabricated house printed from a computer file - a new concept they say minimizes waste and simplifies the building process.

CEBRA Architects to Design Information Portal at Rebild, Denmark

2012-01-23T14:14:00-05:00

The joint proposal by Danish architects CEBRA, developers HP Byg, engineers Viggo Madsen and exhibition architect Elisabeth Topsøe has won the competition to design a new information portal for Rebild, one of the most popular tourist destinations in northern Denmark.

ROCKmagneten: MVRDV and COBE Win Danish Rock Museum Competition in Roskilde

2011-09-30T13:43:00-04:00

The MVRDV and COBE scheme for the transformation of a former concrete factory into a multifunctional creative hub was chosen winner of an international design competition. The master plan proposes an informal transformation of the 45,000m2 site into a dense neighborhood, incl. 8,000m2 existing factory halls, organized around a plaza for events.

Bjarke Ingels designs incinerator that doubles as ski slope in Copenhagen

2011-07-05T12:02:00-04:00

How do you turn a 100-metre-tall incinerator in the heart of Copenhagen into a social and cultural hub? By building a ski slope on the roof, of course.

We also published news of this project back in January.

Finalist Proposal ‘Aurora’ for Odense University Hospital

2011-07-01T17:19:00-04:00

Danish Henning Larsen Architects have shared with us their finalist competition entry for the new University Hospital & Faculty of Health Sciences in Odense, Denmark. As part of a team consisting of Friis & Moltke, TKT, Cowi, Rambøll Danmark, SLA Landscape and NNE Pharmaplan, Henning Larsen Architects named their proposal 'Aurora' – as a symbol of renewed hope and a new beginning. Aurora was one of three finalist proposals; the competing consortium Medic OUH won the competition.

‘Chimecco’ at Sculpture by the Sea

2011-06-28T20:29:53-04:00

The kinetic sculpture ‘Chimecco’ is a large interactive wind chime by artist Mark Nixon. It is currently being exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea in Aarhus, Denmark: one of the most popular outdoor sculpture exhibitions in the world. The design was selected as one of the winners of an open competition from over 350 submissions.

If you're in Denmark this week, visit the exhibition which opened June 2 and still runs until July 3, 2011 along the spectacular three-kilometer long coast line from Tangkrogen to Ballehage in Aarhus.

The Glue Society's "I Wish You Hadn't Asked"

2011-06-09T12:59:11-04:00

For this new project, The Glue Society has constructed a fully functional house in Aarhus, and for the month of June is making it rain continuously indoors, with the resulting decomposition of the building being observable both inside and out.

Middelfart Savings Bank by 3XN

2011-05-26T21:41:00-04:00

Last week, we published the winners of the 2011 RIBA Awards, as well as the RIBA International Awards, presented by the Royal Institute of British Architects for architectural excellence in the UK and abroad. The 3XN-designed Middelfart Savings Bank in Denmark was one of the eight buildings honored in the European Union award category.

3XN’s Bella Sky Hotel Opens Today as the New Nordic Home

2011-05-16T16:57:00-04:00

If you're in Copenhagen these days, make sure to swing by the brand-new Bella Sky Hotel in Ørestad which was officially opened today by Danish Minister of Economic and Business Affairs, Brian Mikkelsen and Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, Frank Jensen. Last week, we already posted first photos of the newly completed hotel exterior, today, we can also give you an insight view of what 3XN designed to impress arriving guests as a tasteful and warm Scandinavian home.

3XN-Designed Bella Sky Hotel Opens in Copenhagen Next Week

2011-05-11T14:49:00-04:00

Copenhagen's Bella Sky hotel, the largest hotel in Scandinavia, is scheduled to officially open next Monday, May 16. The hotel, designed by Danish studio 3XN, tries to become a new landmark on the Copenhagen skyline, symbolizing the identity of the modern Ørestad area, and also marking the capital’s increasing importance on the international convention and congress scene.

Henning Larsen Architects’ Healing Architecture Wins in Herlev, Denmark

2011-04-20T13:28:00-04:00

Danish practice Henning Larsen Architects and the consortium consisting of the architecture companies Friis & Moltke and Brunsgaard & Laursen, the engineering companies NNE Pharmaplan and Orbicon Leif Hansen, the consulting company Norconsult and landscape architects SLA have won the competition for the extension of Herlev Hospital, just outside of Copenhagen.

3XN’s Bella Chandelier Is Ready for Installation

2011-04-18T13:44:00-04:00

When the Bella Sky Hotel, the largest hotel in Scandinavia, launches in Copenhagen May 16, guests are greeted in the foyer by The Bella Chandelier – a living scenography of light and color created by GXN, the R&D department of Danish architects 3XN.

Review: The Best Lecture Times by Steven Holl and Bjarke Ingels

2011-03-10T12:56:00-05:00

Lovedog bites the Pragmatic Utopia: "AMBIGUITY" and

"HEDONISTIC SUSTAINABILITY" with white on black slogan slides as presented. Superficial review of Steven Holl and Bjarke Ingels lectures in Los Angeles.

"AMBIGUITY" by Steven Holl

Date and place:
3/2/2011, SCI Arc, Los Angeles

Main Material:
Lecture built around meaning of "ambiguity" in the works of the architect. Large scale mixed use projects in China.
Queens Library in New York, museums, watercolor drawings, concept diagrams, architect's own photos of finished projects with construction slides. Show and tell format. Reading from a text.

Crowd:
Students, 30 and 40 somethings, older ladies and gentlemen, in all equal amounts.

Sense of Humor:
Negligible, except audience laughed in an on the know moment when Holl showed a picture of himself with Thom Mayne wearing hard hats touring Holl's construction site in China.

Relevancy to what's going on (based on global poverty ranking in relation to his clients):
None...