Storstrøm Prison on Falster
Storstrøm Prison, designed by C. F. Møller Architects, will be the setting for the world’s most humane and re-socializing closed prison, with architecture which supports the inmates’ mental and physical well-being.
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Major works to visit include the Nature Themed Daycare Center, Sønderborg, Jutland, by ZENI arkitekter a/s. In recent years, there has been a tendency to concentrate daycare facilities in fewer and larger daycare centers. This is obviously done to be more efficient, but also to be able to offer a wider range of facilities.
We also post details about the Maritime Center, Esbjerg, Southern Jutland, by WERK Arkitekter and Snøhetta. It opened in the seaport town Esbjerg on the Danish west coast, a new Maritime Center. The facility was developed by WERK Arkitekter and Snøhetta following a design competition in 2019. The center is created as a shared space for watersport clubs and visitors along the port. It provides the town with a social maritime hub and architectural landmark.
Finally, we feature The Sergeant, Sønderborg, Jutland, again by ZENI arkitekter. Sergenten is a former army garage and drill hall has been revitalized as a modern concert and event space, with state-of-the-art kitchen facilities.
Storstrøm Prison, designed by C. F. Møller Architects, will be the setting for the world’s most humane and re-socializing closed prison, with architecture which supports the inmates’ mental and physical well-being.
The world’s first ‘Biological House’ has opened its doors to visitors and sets a new high standard for eco-friendly buildings. The leading forces behind this innovative build, Een til Een, built the house in secrecy, and eventually welcomed visitors from all over the world.
C. F. Møller, Architects’ building is making a bold statement on the campus of the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, blending in and standing out at the same time with its unique façade and innovative interior layout for cutting-edge research.
C. F. Møller Architects designed the new music and theatre hall which is created to be a cultural power centre with four stages and the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music under one roof.
BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and LEGO bring the toy scale of the classic LEGO brick to architectural scale with LEGO House, forming vast exhibition spaces and public squares that embody the culture and values at the heart of all LEGO experiences.
CEBRA Architects designed the new building replaces an existing school and is in its scale, its architectonic expression and in its materials inspired by its surroundings: the neighbourhood and the public forest.
Architect: Sigurd Larsen. The Green House is one of a series of single family houses is designed for Frikøbing in Denmark. The development plan for the area has high demands on sustainability for construction materials, insulation, energy and air circulation.
Architect: Sigurd Larsen
The Light House is the second of Sigurd Larsen’s typologies to be developed in the area and consists of a simple plan arrangement that allow for low construction costs while offering generous living spaces.
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and CREO
The 32,000 sqm extension of Kolding Hospital in Denmark has been completed as one the first new built hospitals part of the EUR 6.4 billion modernising of Denmark’s future hospital capacity.
Danish Design Award winners news – the game-changing Open Embassy, the aesthetic-functional walking frame Scandinavian Indoor, the expansive car-sharing concept GoMore and the partnership-building VenligBolig, which promotes the integration of refugee families.
Design: Form4 Architecture, architects
Architecture competition to take a bus shelter, an atypical, ubiquitous object within the public realm, and create a design for a rural area of Denmark.
Design: Conm + Kallesø
The projects consits of two dwellings each 140 sqm. Each dwellings consists of an entrance, 2 toilets, 2 bedrooms, 1 master bedroom and a huge 60 sqm living room which has access to a semi secluded private garden facing the street.
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects. A successful premiere marked the beginning of a sold out season at Denmark’s first newly built theatre in over a century outside of the Danish capital Copenhagen.
Architects: Urban Agency and Aarhus Arkitekterne
Although the MCH Messecenter in Herning is already the biggest exhibition in Denmark, that doesn’t hinder the plans for its future development from being very ambitious.
Transforming a former German WWII bunker, within the protected shorelands of Blåvand the new building has four main volumes, housing four independent institutions: a bunker museum, an amber museum, a history museum and a special exhibitions gallery.
This Danish visitor centre design by architects CEBRA will be an architectural gateway that gathers and communicates a vast range of visitor experiences. It will form a natural starting point for hikes in the area.
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects. An old boiler building from the 1940s in the unique, historic industrial complex in Vejle. The architects have designed the 1,200 sqm refurbishment project to provide space for the new Design Driven Innovation Centre housing 30 creative companies.
Design: CEBRA Architects. An ambitious cultural project in Northern Sjælland in Denmark: a 3,000 sqm cultural building located on an island in Hundested harbour.