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post updated 16 May 2021
JDS – Latest Designs
JDS Architecture News – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
30 Aug 2013
Kalvebod Waves, Copenhagen, Denmark
Design: KLAR + JDS/Julien de Smedt Architects
photo from architects firm
Kalvebod Waves
JDS state, “What has doomed the Kalvebod area until now were the long shadows drawn by the imposing structures fronting it. We studied the course of those shadows throughout the day and the year and located two main pockets of shadow-free zones. We decided to program those areas as resting islands on the water. From there on, all we needed was to find an active way to reconnect those islands to the urban network and to make them relate to the city’s infrastructure.”
20 May 2013
Premier Campus Office, Istanbul, Turkey
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Premier Campus Offices Istanbul
The volume of the block is literally carved out to invite the surroundings in. The local hilly landscape, characteristic to Istanbul, is continued in the meandering of the volume both in plan, adapting to the site’s edges, and in section, weaving into itself in a series of gentle curving slopes, echoing the nearby Bosphorus waves.
Youth Centre Lille, France
Design: JDS Architects
images from JDS
Over the past twenty years Lille has become a European hub; a destination for business and congress, a great place to study and live and also a tourist destination. It is a city with a turbulent history of conquest and reconquest, a heritage as an important medieval city and later on enjoyed and sometimes suffered the title of Northern France industrial capital.
The project by JDS emerges from the idea of creating an urban catalyst, accommodating three distinct programmes on a triangular site. By placing a program in each point of the triangle we offer maximum privacy while allowing them a closeness and continuity of space, organized around a garden, like a cloister of calm in the center of the city. The lifting of the mass of the programme at the corners illuminates and activates the adjacent public spaces and creates a continuity from outside to inside of the building.
Project: youth hostel, kindergarten, office
Budget: 12.150.000 EUR
Type: Invited Competition
Size: 6.980 m2
Client: SAEM Euralille
Status: 1st Prize 2011
Location Lille, France Team JDS, EGIS, Agence Franck Boutté Consultants, SL2EC
JDS Partner in Charge: Julien De Smedt
Project Leader: Renaud Pereira
Stoop
Design: JDS Architects
images from Julien de Smedt
Stoop, a public bench with multiple seating levels, allowing people to sit in a way that is less prescribed, more flexible and more social.
Looking at locations where there is no bench available and people still sit, doorsteps, handrails and stairs function as a seat. As a reference we pictured in mind a famous photograph: A Great Day in Harlem, taken by Art Kane. It shows a gathering of all the famous jazz musicians from the 20th century, posing on -indeed- a stoop.
Waiting in front of your friend’s house on a stoop in Brooklyn, posing with a tourist group on the Spanish Steps in Rome or having a picnic on the steps of the Sydney Opera House, we decided to incorporate the universal idea of using stairs as a sitting object, into our design of a bench.
A stepped bench with a triangular plan to allow a placement that not only serves as a bench, or table-bench, but functions as well as an urban auditorium. Stair serves as the ideal object on which the father watches the football game of his son and is surrounded by his friends, an important meeting takes place at work and right after you have lunch on it with your colleagues. It will be installed on schoolyards and at universities, to hang out with friends or to open up a laptop to prepare your next class. And of course, it will stand out on squares and streets all over the world.
Faaborg Harbour Bath
JDS with KLAR, Creo Architects
image from Julien de Smedt
Faaborg Harbour Bath design
Caen Peninsula Refurbishment, France
JDS, Francois Leclercq and KLAR
picture from Julien de Smedt
Caen Peninsula Refurbishment
Major Design by JDS
Holmenkollen Ski Jump, Norway
2010
picture from JDS architects
Holmenkollen Ski Jump
Julien de Smedt – Key Projects by JDS
Featured Buildings by Julien de Smedt, alphabetical:
Aarhus Tower, Denmark
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picture from JDS architects
Aarhus Towers
Alexanderplatz tower, Berlin
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picture from JDS
Aarhus Tower : Alexanderplatz tower
Athens Building, Greece
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picture from JDS
Athens Building
Condominium Tower
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picture from Julien de Smedt
Condominium Tower by Julien de Smedt : Condominium Tower
Dublin Swimming Pool – proposal, Dublin, Ireland
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picture from JDS
Dublin Swimming Pool : Dublin Swimming Pool
Helsingør Hospital Building, Denmark
2006
picture from JDS architects
Helsingør Hospital Building : Helsingør Hospital Building
The Iceberg Project – Isbjerget, Aarhus, Denmark
2008-
picture from Julien de Smedt
The Iceberg Aarhus
Maritime Youth House, Copenhagen, Denmark by PLOT Architects
2004
photo from JDS architects
Maritime Youth House
Mermaid Wellness Centre
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picture from JDS
Mermaid Wellness Centre
Mondri and Elano Hotels, Las Vegas, USA
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picture from JDS architects
Mondri and Elano Hotels
Ørestad housing – VM House, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005
Plot Architects – Julien De Smedt and Bjarke Ingels
photo © Nikolaj Møller
Ørestad housing
Ørestad housing – VM Mountain dwellings, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008
photo from JDS architects
VM Mountain dwellings
Silo Apartments
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picture from JDS architects
Silo Apartments
Sjakket Youth House, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007
photo © Vegar Moen
Sjakket Youth House
Stockholm Library Competition entry, Sweden
2007
picture from JDS architects
Stockholm Library
Stockholm Library : entry images
picture : Nikolaj Maller
Stockholm Library images
Trondheim Hotel and Congress Center, Norway
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picture from JDS architects
Trondheim Hotel
Copenhagen Havnebad, Denmark
image from Julien de Smedt
Copenhagen Havnebad design by PLOT with BIG
Julien de Smedt designs – no images:
Montreal harbour development – proposal, Montreal, Canada
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Mixed-use development – proposal, China
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More Julien de Smedt Buildings online soon
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark, northern Europe
JDS Architects Practice Information
JDS / Julien De Smedt offices – three studios in Europe:
Copenhagen (Denmark) + Brussels (Belgium) + Oslo (Norway)
Copenhagen Architects Offices
Julien De Smedt Architects selected for “Europe 40 Under 40”
Website: www.jdsarchitects.com
Copenhagen Architecture
Contemporary Architecture in the Danish Capital – architectural selection below:
Nordhavn Station + Orientkaj Station
Design: Arup and Cobe
photo : Rasmus Hjortshøj – COAST
Nordhavn Station + Orientkaj Station Copenhagen
Panda House, Copenhagen Zoo, Roskildevej 32
Architects: BIG
photo : Rasmus Hjortshøj
Panda House, Copenhagen Zoo
Carlsberg Central Office, Valby
Design: C.F. Møller Architects
image Courtesy architecture office
Carlsberg Central Office in Valby
Danish Architecture
Buildings / photos for the Julien de Smedt page welcome
