The new Danish Opera House opens today. To mark the event, architect Henning Larsen publicly bitched out the client-donor, an ego maniacal, wealthy shipping magnate who imposed his aesthetic ideas on the design.
The following article raises many more troubling questions about changes in Denmark, maybe starting to become a lot more like the rest of the (design impoverished) world and shifting prerogatives from the public to the private sphere. This public building project sidestepped usual site planning and architect selection thanks to the patron's power and singular vision. (NYT)
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FYI the most ironic thing about this project, though not mentioned in the NYT article, is that the Opera is situated right in front of the Royal Danish Academy's Architecture school (literally showing its back on it) and that all traffic to this cultural super structure has pas through a singel lane iron bridge dating from the naval station days... However the opening was great fun, all those Police corteges driving around small the corner really made my intense studio work session that night abit less routine. As we say " It's big and It got built" you can't take that away from it.
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