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ADEPT completes the new Aarhus School of Architecture

2021-10-13T08:00:00-04:00

Buzz is spreading around Denmark this week following the completion of the design capital’s first-ever purpose-built architectural school in Aarhus, its second-largest city.

Image © ADEPT

The Danish firm ADEPT has converted a 12,500-square-meter (135,000-square-feet) former railyard site at the Aarhus School of Architecture to deliver an innovative approach to learning to one of Europe’s most respected architecture schools.

Image © Rasmus Hjortshoj

The new building offers students the chance to experiment in their own education, collaborating with each other in a cross-disciplinary space that is itself the byproduct of intensive user input and a process that circumvented internal hierarchies of building design and project organization.

Image © Rasmus Hjortshoj

“It is a building that was designed to never be enough in itself,” ADEPT partner Martin Krough said in a statement. “Only through its occupants is it complete."

Image © Rasmus Hjortshoj

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Kids' City opens at the Danish Architecture Center

2020-02-11T12:44:00-05:00

Last week, the Danish Architecture Center opened it's anticipated exhibition Kids' City, a child-centric exhibition exploring architecture and construction. The exhibition investigates 6 typologies of urban architecture including bicycle infrastructure, playful daycare buildings, nature areas, and new ideas for child healthcare. Kids' City was developed in collaboration with leading Danish architecture firms such as BIG, ADEPT, and COBE Architects. Archinect previously covered the exhibition, noting its aim to highlight Copenhagen's status as one of the best places to raise a child.

Architecture Office's new exhibition explores the transformation of European immigrant towns in the US

2019-04-04T14:51:00-04:00

Founded by Nicole McIntosh and Jonathan Louie, Architecture Office's newest exhibition Swissness Applied focuses on the architectural transformation of European inspired immigrant towns and their presence in the United States. A nation comprised of people and cultures from around the globe, the project allows for the topic of cultural appropriation in architecture, urban design, and planning to be discussed.

Architecture Office co-founder Nicole McIntosh is a Swiss-born architect whose collaborative research explores a highly curated exhibition of various European immigrant towns whose characteristics reference from German, Danish, and Swiss design motifs. US towns such as Frankenmuth, Michigan; Solvang, California; and New Glarus, Wisconsin have been implemented into the American landscape by the individuals who immigrated to those areas. For this exhibition, New Glarus is a town the studio uses as the primary subject of focus in Swissness Applied.

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Through the eyes of Verner Panton; a master of color through contemporary expression

2019-01-03T09:38:00-05:00

If you don't know his name, you probably know of his work. Verner Panton's iconic designs have noted him an innovator in furniture as well as atmospheric design. Deemed the "bad boy" of Danish design, Paton's rise as an icon in contemporary design broke through social convention. His take on design and its accessibility to others was his calling card. Obsessed with the needs of individuals, Panton believed that intelligent design should be available for the masses, and not merely set aside for the wealthy.

A less successful experiment is preferable to a beautiful platitude”

The '60s was a time of the search for the psychedelic and social progress, Panton's design theory and ideals fit well within the needs of the time. Famously said, "A less successful experiment is preferable to a beautiful platitude.” A true optimist in the future of design and social mobility, Panton strived to create objects and spaces that provoked the senses. In his new monograph by Phaidon, writers Ida Enghol...