Snøhetta completes new extension and landscape for the Ordrupgaard Museum in Denmark

2021-08-16T17:43:00-04:00

Snøhetta has unveiled a new extension and landscape design for the Ordrupgaard Museum in Denmark.

Originally built as a three-winged, neo-classical country mansion during World War I, the museum was expanded by a modern glass and black lava concrete extension in 2005, designed by Zaha Hadid. Snøhetta’s design creates a holistic and continuous path throughout the museum and its surrounding park and gardens, linking Hadid’s intervention with the museum’s original building and permanent collection. This project comprises landscape interventions along with five brand new, subterranean exhibition spaces.

The Ordrupgaard Museum is located north of Copenhagen and houses Northern Europe’s most comprehensive collection of French and Danish art from the 19th and early 20th century.

Out of the new exhibition spaces, two create a continuation of Hadid’s extension, and the remaining three are dedicated to one of the museum’s main attractions: its extensive and permanent collection of French im...

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Snøhetta completes new extension and landscape for the Ordrupgaard Museum in Denmark