Le parc de Copenhague au Danemark a vu récemment l’apparition de ce pavillon “Mirror House”. Designé par MLRP, la structure se veut être interactive entre les citoyens et leur environnement. Une idée intéressante à découvrir dans la suite de l’article en images.
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Artist Olafur Eliasson has designed fort-like headquarters to rise out of the sea for a Danish investment company.
Located in the harbour-side town of Vejle, the building will have a curved brick facade with sliced oval recesses. It will be accessed from the marina via a new footbridge.
Kirk Kapital A/S’s offices will occupy the upper floors of the building, while a publically accessible cafe and gallery will be situated on the ground floor.
Studio Olafur Eliasson is also collaborating with architects Lundgaard & Tranberg and landscape architects Vogt on a masterplan for the entire marina, which will be complete by 2016.
Other Danish projects we’ve recently featured include former shipbuilding warehouses converted into a cultural centre and some harbour-side housing blocks – you can see more projects from Denmark here.
Here’s some more text from Kirk Kapital A/S:
Plans unveiled for the new KIRK KAPITAL A/S headquarters in Denmark, designed by Olafur Eliasson
Ambitious plans were unveiled today for a new development for Vejle Harbour in Denmark. The development consists of:
· The new headquarters for KIRK KAPITAL A/S, designed by Olafur Eliasson
· A new island, Harbour Island, with twelve buildings for housing and commercial use
· A new marina by Vejle Municipality
The masterplan proposal for Harbour Island in Vejle has been developed in a collaboration between Studio Olafur Eliasson, Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter and Vogt Landscape Architects, based on plans conceived by Vejle Municipality to create an active connection between the city centre of Vejle and Vejle Fjord.
The new KIRK KAPITAL A/S headquarters are placed in the marina just south of Harbour Island. The building will contain a publicly accessible ground floor with a café and an exhibition space, as well as commercial leases and the headquarters for KIRK KAPITAL A/S on the upper floors. Expected completion date: 2016.
Danish architects ADEPT and Luplau & Poulsen have won a competition to design harbour-side housing blocks in their hometown of Aarhus.
The proposed development, collectively titled the City in the Building, will include an assortment of uncomplicated brick buildings that surround a shared courtyard.
Shorter buildings located beside the water will accommodate apartments for families and senior citizens, while taller buildings behind will house students.
All residences are planned to be dual-aspect and every block will contain some sea-facing homes.
Greenhouses will be located on the roofs, beside solar panel arrays and rainwater collection units.
The project is due to complete in December 2013.
Other competition wins from ADEPT include a skyscraper of stacked cubes – see all our stories about the architects here.
Here are some more words from ADEPT:
ADEPT and Luplau & Poulsen win 12,000 m2 residential project at Aarhus Harbour
Common greenhouses on the roof tops, adjacent terraces overlooking the bay of Aarhus, and a sheltered green courtyard – all in close proximity to downtown Aarhus. This is the essence of Brabrand Housing Association’s new residential complex that breaks with both the port’s massive scale, and present iconic building tendencies. The project is expected to be completed for inauguration in December 2013.
Wednesday November 2nd the Deputy Mayor Laura Hay revealed the winners of the competition at a reception at Aarhus City Hall. The winning team consists of the architects ADEPT and LUPLAU & POULSEN, turn-key contractor Dansk Boligbyg and NIRAS Consulting Engineers. The team has designed a project entitled The Port Dwellings – Housing for All at Harbour North, that consists of 238 public dwellings distributed between 83 apartments for families and +55 aged seniors, and 155 student-housing units.
The architects have taken the best aspects of the city’s existing block structure and reinterpreted it, providing a modern and sustainable expression on the waterfront in Aarhus Nordhavn. The simple building arrangement is complemented by shared greenhouses on the roof, varied building heights and sustainable initiatives that make the new dwellings robust and future-proof. The housing structure adapts to its context that, on the one hand, consists of large, industrial scale and on the other, a smaller and intimate scale with a lively maritime atmosphere.
“Placing the building volumes along the edge of the site proved to be highly appropriate for the location. It gathers the dwellings around a large green courtyard sheltered from the wind and creates the best sun and daylighting conditions for the apartments,” says Martin Laursen, partner of ADEPT. The development is being realized predominantly in brick, dropping in building height towards the water and the marina. As a consequence, the apartments furthest from the water, the youth homes share the extensive views. In addition, the building structure is subdivided into smaller buildings, marked by varying heights and subtle changes in façade expression. “The building’s division into smaller buildings relates to the human scale and creates affinities between the residents and the individual ‘town house’,” says Simon Lyager Poulsen, ADEPT’s project architect on the Port Dwellings.
The project differs from the bulk of existing and proposed port projects in that it does not attempt to be a major iconic building – an aspect of the scheme remarked upon positively by the developer and competition jury. Brabrand Housing Association has deliberately chosen to focus on a building that inserts itself in the port in a humble manner, challenging the large scale of the context by addressing the scale of inhabitants’ daily lives.
The family apartments are located in the lowest buildings, in close proximity to the water and the intimate scale of the marina. In this way children and parents have convenient access to activities at the waters edge, the forest and the inner courtyard. In addition, all roof surfaces are designed for shared-use amongst residents. The sunny roof surfaces are activated with greenhouses, common areas and living terraces with excellent views of the city, forest and bay. The remaining roofs are established as green surfaces both for collecting rain water and supporting solar panel arrays.
The settlement is a ‘zero-energy building,’ which, with it’s solar panels and greenhouses, takes more advanced steps toward meeting future energy requirements than those currently formulated by the municipality and the state government. Brabrand Housing Association expects the future settlement to meet the energy requirements of 2025 – an energy class yet to be formulated. At the same time the dwellings can be built within the allocated budget, which allows rents to be competitive.
Each apartment is lit from two sides and has private outdoor spaces overlooking the water and the common courtyard. The units range in size between 78m2 and 115 m2 and consist of 2, 3, 4 and 5 room apartments. Robust and flexible plan layouts ensure live-ability over the years, across generations and changing architectural trends. In these terms, the winning project offers both a robust, simple and coherent project as well as a varied and lively architecture.
Throughout the competition process, ADEPT and LUPLAU & POULSEN have enjoyed a close collaboration. LUPLAU & POULSEN has in recent years been responsible for several new Brabrand Housing Association projects. “We are delighted to continue the strong cooperation with Brabrand Housing Association,” says Jørn Lyager Poulsen, partner responsible for the housing project at LUPLAU & POULSEN. The three partners in ADEPT, who all come from Aarhus are, like LUPLAU & POULSEN, excited about the opportunity to build in their hometown and to contribute to the development of the waterfront in Aarhus.
A faceted glass shroud cloaks these former shipbuilding warehouses in Elsinore, Denmark, which architects AART have converted into a cultural centre.
The seafront shipyard buildings of The Culture Yard now contain concert halls, a public library, exhibition rooms, conference rooms and a dockyard museum.
The concrete structure and bricks walls of the existing buildings are left exposed inside the centre, whilst original wrought-iron staircases and balconies are retained behind the glass.
After dark, the lights behind the transparent facade brightly illuminate the sea-facing side of the building.
Some other popular Danish projects we’ve published include an artist’s studio inside a stable and a metro station with a spotty circular roof – see all our stories about Denmark here.
Photography is by Adam Mørk.
The following text is from AART:
The Culture Yard
1st prize in open international architecture competition // 17.000m2 cultural centre in Elsinore in Denmark
In many years the attention has been aimed at the site adjacent, where the UNESCO World Heritage site, Kronborg Castle, which is famous for its role in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, exerts its magnetic pull on both tourists and local citizens of Elsinore – but now Elsinore’s old shipbuilding yard has been transformed into a 17.000m2 cultural and knowledge centre, including concert halls, showrooms, conference rooms, a dockyard museum and a public library.
The Culture Yard symbolizes Elsinore’s transformation from an old industrial town to a modern cultural hub. In this way, the yard is designed as a hinge between the past and present, reinforcing the identity of the local community, but at the same time expressing an international attitude, reinforcing the relation between the local and global community.
The contrast between past and present permeates the Culture Yard. For instance, the original concrete skeleton with armoured steel has been reinforced, but left exposed as a reference to the area’s industrial past.
The historic context has thus been the main structural idea in the design process, ensuring the keen observer will discover a chapter of history in every corner of the yard and every peeling of the wall.
In other words, if you want to understand what Elsinore really is, what the intangible blur between past and present feels like, this is the place to visit.
Thanks to architectural features such as wrought iron stairs and concrete elements, interacting with modern glass structures and interior designs, the contrast between the days of yore and the present becomes evident.
It is the Culture Yard’s way of playing with the field of tension between old and new, making the notion of past versus present, the industrial society versus the information society, constantly present.
Particularly striking, when viewed from the seafront and Kronborg Castle, is the multifaceted façade.
Like a fragmented, yet strongly coherent structure, the enormous glass and steel façade challenges the historic site and stares unflinchingly across the Sound – the strait that separates Denmark and Sweden.
The transparent façade also reinforces the relation between inside and outside, as you can peak in from street level and enjoy the magnificent sea view and view of Kronborg Castle from every floor of the building, especially from the glass cave which in a dramatic gesture protrudes out of the building above the main entrance.
In this way, the façade encloses the yard in a distinctive atmosphere, as the dazzling and dramatic play of lines generates a sense of spaciousness.
Although the façade is made of hundreds of lines and triangles it appears as one big volume, generating a sense of place and time.
The volume also takes the environment into account, since the façade not only functions as an aesthetic and spatial architectural feature, but also as a climate shield, reducing the energy demand for cooling and heating of the building.

Project: 1st prize in open international architecture competition 17.000m2 cultural centre in Elsinore in Denmark
Client: Elsinore municipality
Architect: AART architects A/S
Landscape architect: AART architects A/S
Engineer: Søren Jensen Consulting Engineer
Address: Allégade 2, 3000 Elsinore, Denmark
Year: 2006 – 2010
Size: Approx. 17.000m2
Construction costs: DKR 315 million
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The circular roof of a metro station near Copenhagen looms over sunken platforms like a spotty UFO.
The station, designed by Swedish studio Metro Arkitekter, is located near to the airport on the route to the city centre.
The 52 spots that perforate the round concrete roof are skylights that filter daylight through to the two platforms below.
Narrow steel columns elevate the 45 metre-wide roof from behind curved glass partitions, which define the station’s perimeter.
At the base of these partitions, a curved concrete bench with teak edges circles the station.
A metro station combined with a park was also featured on Dezeen recently – see the story here and see more stories about railway stations here.
Photography is by Rafael Palomo.
Here’s some more information from the architects:
Station Hyllie
Hyllie is the first station you reach when travelling by train from Copenhagen’s Kastrup airport and is therefore Malmö’s gateway to Copenhagen. This is no traditional station building – we have been working with other elements instead. The large round roof (diameter 45 m) – lit from below using uplights – hovers like a UFO above the station entrance. The roof is perforated by 52 round lantern lights which allow daylight to penetrate right down to the platforms, thereby eliminating any sense of an underground station. Daylight and lines of sight have acted as important parameters for creating a safe environment. The station is a regional and local train station with four tracks and two platforms. Bartenbach LichtLabor of Innsbruck are responsible for the lighting concept. The artistic decoration has been carried out by Kristina Matusch of Malmö.
Address: Hyllie Torg, Malmö
Architect: Metro Arkitekter AB through Claes R Janson (resp), Ola Arnholm (project architect), Carl Kylberg, Anna-Karin Joelsson (HL), Jörgen Åkerlund.
Other consultants: ÅF/ Sweco, Tyrens, Sweco
Constructor: Jernhusen AB
Building contractor: NCC
Area: 10 000 sqm
Year: 2010
Material used: stainless steel structure, fiber concrete, fiber cement, concrete, glass, teak details and railings
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Mark Nixon of London studio CZWG has turned a bridge in Aarhus, Denmark, into a musical instrument by hanging metal pipes from the underside.
Varying in length, the 600 gold-anodized aluminium pipes move freely in the breeze, sounding like a traditional wind chime when they collide.
People on the bridge can touch interactive nodes on its surface to activate the chimes in a controlled order, playing the instrument.
Named Chimecco, the sculpture forms part of this year’s Sculpture by the Sea exhibition, which takes place entirely outdoors.
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Here is some more information from Nixon:
Chimecco, an interactive instrument
Sculpture by the Sea, Aarhus Denmark
Mark Nixon’s kinetic sculpture ‘Chimecco’ has been realised as part of the exhibition ‘Sculpture by the Sea’ in Aarhus, Denmark: one of the most popular outdoor sculpture exhibitions in the world – which last year drew crowds of over 500,000 people.
Mark’s design for a large interactive wind chime was selected as one of the winners of an open competition from over 350 submissions.
Mark has spent the last month in Aarhus helping to construct the piece together with a team of assistants.
The piece is constructed from 600 50mm diameter gold anodized aluminium pipes ranging in length from 120 mm up to 3750mm.
These pipes are attached to the underside of a bridge and with a series of interactive nodes on the top surface that allow for people to “play” the instrument.
The design is based on three conceptual ideas.
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Our video exploring the colorful history of tattooing in Copenhagen
In this video author
Jon Nordstrøn brings his book Danish Tattooing to life by visiting Copenhagen’s most famous tattoo shops, telling stories along the way about the artists who made the subculture so significant there. From homemade tattoo guns to the influence of psychedelics on more recent styles, Nordstrøn’s colorful history is a must for anyone interested in the origins of the artform.
Tattoo fans will also want to know about the book’s follow-up, “Nordic Tattooing,” which looks at the development of that region’s styles through the tattoist’s original drawings. Both books are available by contacting Nordstrøn’s imprint
Nordstroms.
Danish typeface designers e-Types have opened a shop for their type foundry in Copenhagen, Denmark, where customers can buy digital fonts in a physical space.
Customers can buy fonts loaded on USB sticks at the shop as opposed to the online Playtype store where fonts are downloaded or sent by email.
The shop also stocks posters, t-shirts and homeware decorated with letters designed by e-Types and their colleagues.
Oversized fonts have been printed on the glazed storefront and on the walls inside.
Merchandise is displayed on wooden tables, and the floor is tiled in black and white.
The shop will be open for just one year.
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The following information is from e-Types:
The world’s first brick and mortar type foundry. e‐Types launches concept store to celebrate the revamp of Playtype.com.
In connection with the redesign and launch of their online type foundry www.playtype.com, the Copenhagen‐based design agency e‐Types is launching a typographic concept store, “Playtype”, located in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark.
“We ́ve always been type nerds. It’s what founded our company and what keeps the midnight oil burning at e‐Types, with people spending hours on the correct curvature of a “C” or the appropriate amount of space around an “A”. Typography is essential to who we are as a firm but also for the work we do for our clients; much of a company’s identity rests in its use of type. Just think of Coca Cola or IBM. Releasing our fonts like this is a way of signaling that we want to put Danish type design on the map” says Jonas Hecksher, Partner and Creative Director at e‐Types.
Apart from selling fonts, the shop will feature a number of products and editions ‐ some designed by e‐Types, some in collaboration with friends and colleagues from the design and art world. “The offline shop is a way of starting a dialogue with a wider audience about the significance of typography, sure. But it is also a place where we can experiment with our craft. A place where our designers can work more freely than they normally would when working with a corporate design programme.
The shop gives us a place where our designers can have a cool idea on a Monday and see it come to life in the shop the following week. For now, we’ve created a couple of t‐shirts and posters, but maybe we’ll transform the whole space into a gallery next month or something completely different the month after that. It’s an experiment. A playground.” comments Rasmus Ibfelt, Partner and Managing Director at e‐Types.
The online shop Playtype.com will feature over 100 new fonts designed by e‐Types and longtime friends and partners, the prolific London‐based typographers A2/SW/HK run by Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel. The font collection is the culmination of over 20 years of type design, with many typefaces never having been publicly available till now. “Some of the fonts we are releasing were originally for clients and some are sketches and doodles that gradually have evolved into full‐blown type families.
Some were inspired by a particular context – for example “Nouvel” which was inspired by Jean Nouvel’s architecture for Koncerthuset, the new concert venue designed for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Others were designed to be purely functional and work under extreme circumstances ‐ like “Medic” that is designed for emergency medicine.” says Jens Kajus, Partner and Creative Director and like many of the e‐Types team, a long‐ time contributor to the Playtype font collection.
“Playtype.com is the perfect match for A2’s commercial fonts. Like e‐ Types, our studio has been crafting high‐end and versatile typefaces for many different kinds of clients for more than a decade. It is our hope that the expanding world of advertising, branding agencies and design studios across the globe will see this injection of fresh faces as a starting point for future communication.” says Henrik Kubel, Partner at A2/SW/HK.
The shop in Copenhagen will open on December 1st 2010 and close exactly one year later on December 1st 2011. Playtype.com however, is here to stay.
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Une nouvelle série “Deserted City” par le photographe Kim Høltermand basé au Danemark. Habitué aux images d’architecture, il présente cette-fois des paysages et des lieux remplis de brouillard et de mystère. Plus d’exemples de son travail sur son portfolio et dans la suite.
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Danish architects C. F. Møller have won a competition to build a new state prison on the island of Falster in Denmark.
Laid out like a small village, the proposal will integrate various work and leisure facilities alongside green spaces, all linked by a network of streets with a six metre perimeter wall enclosing the prison.
Administration buildings, a library, a religious worship room, sports facilities, a shop and a central square will sit at the heart of the complex.
There will be five separate star-shaped prison blocks located on the outskirts of the facility, one of which will be high-security, where up to 250 prisoners will be housed.
Construction is due for completion in 2016.
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The winning proposal for Denmark’s new state prison on the island of Falster: C. F. Møller Architects has won the competition to build a new, closed state prison on the island of Falster.
The prison is uniquely designed as a small village and integrates several landscape features, among other things animal husbandry, within the perimeter wall.
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The new state prison for approximately 250 inmates is designed as a low, urban structure, centred round the various leisure and working facilities, which are connected via several streets and a central square.
The design creates an urban environment, interacting with the landscape on both sides of the six-metre tall perimeter wall. For this compact, urban structure means that there is also left space for natural and cultivated areas, areas for animal husbandry and for the integration of sports facilities in the landscape within the perimeter.
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Varied and stimulating environment
Mads Mandrup, who is architect and partner in C. F. Møller and responsible for this project, states: ”The inmates spend all their waken hours in the prison environment, and the architecture within the prison walls is therefore an extremely important part of their lives and experiential universe. That is why we have deliberately created a very varied and stimulating environment of different spaces and landscape features – hopefully this will contribute to the re-socialization of the individual and to create renewed confidence in the community and mutual respect for society as a whole.” In the centre are an administration building, an occupation building and a cultural centre with library, religious worship room, sports facilities and a shop. Radiating outwards from here are the prison blocks – four ordinary block wings and one high security block wing.
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Each individual building in the total complex has its own identity. Overall, the complex is in a warm, grey shade of brick. Variation is provided by, amongst other things, the occupation building, which is crystal-shaped and faced with perforated metal plates in green shades, and the cultural centre, which is round, covered with glass and ringed by green slats. Dynamic, star-shaped perimeter With its corners and variations, the six-metre tall, star-shaped perimeter wall creates a dynamic sequence which gives a less restrictive appearance by providing a sense of dialogue with the outside world.
C. F. Møller Architects has won the competition in collaboration with the engineering company Rambøll Denmark and in close dialogue with Marianne Levinsen Landscape, furthermore the design company aggebo&henriksen and the working environment consultants company CRECEA have contributed. Eight teams participated Eight teams were prequalified for the competition.
The other architectural companies participating were Arkitema, schmidt hammer lassen, Lundgaard & Tranberg, Erik Møller Arkitekter, PLH Arkitekter, a team of both Kjær & Richter and aart and a team of Henning Larsen Architects and Friis & Moltke, The jury consisted of a number of expert judges, representatives of the Muncipality of Guldborgsund, representatives of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, the Danish Palaces and Properties Agency, and the Danish Prison and Probation Service.
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