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ADEPT adds timeless brickwork facade to historic Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen

2020-05-22T12:49:00-04:00

The historic Carlsberg Brewery site in Copenhagen has opened to the public and has developed into a new urban neighborhood called the Carlsberg City. The preserved buildings were transformed by a number of European architects, creating a contemporary merging of the historical and the modern.

Copenhagen-based architecture firm ADEPT contributed the Theodora House, a mixed-use complex named after the daughter of Carlsberg'd founder, to the district. Part of the building complex is new construction and the other is an adaptive re-use of a former yeast storage space now occupied by offices.

The new portion of the complex is made up primarily of apartments with additional space for shops and cafes. The architectural brick facade connects the new and the old, tying the color and materiality of the new building to the existing surrounding structures with a novel and modern approach that is achieved by rotating some of the brick units that make up the facade.

Ricardo Bofill’s “Time Space Existence” exhibition on La Fabrica for the 2014 Venice Biennale

2014-06-06T18:54:00-04:00

"Time Space Existence" tells the story behind La Fabrica, the well-known headquarters of Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura that is located in a repurposed cement factory in Barcelona...By reimagining La Fabrica in new locations -- particularly in Venice -- the exhibition serves as a case study that goes beyond the structure's physical presence and explores its timelessness throughout the last century.

As one of the many Collateral Events at the 2014 Venice Biennale, the exhibition opens to the public at The Palazzo Bembo starting June 7 through Nov. 23, 2014.

Check out more details on Bustler.

The Classics, Circa 2050

2012-09-13T13:30:00-04:00

I asked a dozen contemporary furniture experts for their opinions on which objects produced in the last decade or so would occupy the design-conscious home of 2050, just as, say, the Eames lounge chair, a mid-20th-century creation, resides in ours. The result is a showroom’s worth of potential design classics, against which I offer my own list of five. But first, what makes a classic?