Arne Jacobsen Architect, Denmark : Architecture

Key Projects Copenhagen Buildings - Arkitektur i København SAS Royal Hotel Copenhagen, photograph © adrian welch Dansk Arkitektur Arne Jacobsen 1902-71 Jacobsen is famous for designing the fixtures & fittings as well as the buildings. He is probably better known to non-architects as the designer of furniture classics such as the Egg chair, the Swan, Ant and the beautiful but ubiquitous Series 7 chair. He also designed some key buildings abroad: notably St Catherine's College Oxford, the Royal Danish Embassy in London and The Belvedere Restaurant in Hannover. 1924 becomes an architecture student at the Royal Academy of the Arts in Copenhagen 1927 graduates from the Royal Academy of the Arts 1930 wins his first public project, at Bellevue, Copenhagen Aarhus Rådhus - Aarhus Town Hall, Jutland, Denmark image © Isabelle Lomholt Aarhus Town Hall Key Copenhagen building: SAS Royal Hotel Copenhagen / SAS Royal Hotel København 1960 Hammerichsgade 1, Copenhagen - adj. Tivoli Gardens Royal Hotel Copenhagen, photo © adrian welch Radisson SAS Royal Hotel was the first Copenhagen skyscraper. Room 606 features original Jacobsen furniture and fittings. SAS Hotel, Copenhagen: provided by Danish Architecture Centre in 2004 Alberto K restaurant is located on the top floor and also features original Arne Jacobsen furniture. Radisson SAS Royal Hotel Copenhagen is a 5 star hotel. Arne Jacobsen Hotel Bellavista Housing Estate Strandvejen, Klampenborg, north Copenhagen 1934 Innovative early building. Received an award from Gentofte Borough in 1934. Bellavista was listed in 1987. Restaurant Jacobsen is located here - restoration by architects MAA PAR Ladegaard & Christiansen Danish National Bank Building central Copenhagen 1978 photo © adrian welch Arne Jacobsen Building Stelling Building Gammeltorv, København Copenhagen 1937 photo © adrian welch Stelling's House: former paint store Café Stelling - original Arne Jacobsen interior from A Stelling’s Paint Shop Arne Jacobsen Interior Key Danish buildings by Arne Jacobsen: Aarhus Town Hall - Århus Radhuset, Jutland 1941 Aarhus Town Hall Annex in 2000 by 3XN Architects Rødovre City Hall, Rødovre Parkvej, Copenhagen 1952-56 Arne Jacobsen building outside Denmark Royal Danish Embassy, London, UK 1977 photograph © adrian welch Royal Danish Embassy London St Catherine's College, Oxford, England 1960 The Belvedere Restaurant, Hannover, Germany 1964