Our friends from CEBRA shared their recently awarded Sports Center design with us.
The 3.5 m2 extension will incorporate handicap friendly solutions within a sports facility, as almost 50 % of the students attending Egmont High School experience some form of disability whether it be that they are blind, mentally challenged or an amputee. Entitled Kolden, the Danish world for ‘the globe’, the project reflects the fact the everyone is welcomed in the facility. Continue Reading →
On September 14th. 2007, Copenhagen architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) have won the competition for the new Danish Maritime Museum in Helsingor.
The design surrounds an existing dry dock, cutting into its walls and bridging across it but otherwise leaving the dock space empty. Continue Reading →
Last year, BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) completed ‘Mountain Dwellings’ (winner of the Building of the Year 2009 Award under the Housing category), showing us new approaches to a complex typology. Continue Reading →
In 2008, JDS/Julien De Smedt Architects and Aarhus-based CEBRA, in collaboration with the Dutch firm SeArch and French architect Louis Paillard wins the competition to build a 25,000 sqm housing complex in the new Aarhus Docklands development.
Called ‘Iceberg‘, the 21.500 m2 project features mixed dwellings types and commercial space. The project receives its jagged heights to allow better views toward the ocean and better daylight conditions, and the tops and bottoms are shifted so that views between the volumes become possible. This breakdown of the mass creates the potential for an “iconic” building for the harbor area, and one that, due to its form, creates its own skyline within itself. Continue Reading →
Danish architectural firm CEBRA has been designing several buildings for young users, and their new ‘Design Kindergarten’ attempts to break preconceived notions of “what a school should look like” as a way to pique children’s curiosity and creativity.
Still in progress, the daycare center’s organization is based around different “themes” that focus of specific activities -in this case art, design and architecture. This is somewhat new to the Danish model of daycare, as the building will turn into more of an educational preschool facility where knowledge is acquired, not though a formal lesson, but rather through play. Continue Reading →
CEBRA is working on an extension to the School at Bülowsvej in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. The extension is a new, solitary building housing kids from 1st to 3rd grade. Continue Reading →
Danish firm BIG, in collaboration with Fuglark, Lemming & Eriksson, Sámal Johannesen, Martin E. Leo and KJ Elrad win the largest ever commission on the Faroe Islands for a 19.200 m2 Education Centre in Torshavn.
The Faroe Islands are an autonomous province of Denmark, and this is the largest educational project in the country’s history, and will house the Faroe Islands Gymnasium, the Torshavns Technical College and the Business College of Faroe Islands. Continue Reading →
‘Coop Himmelb(l)au’s House of Music in Aalborg, Denmark is a shared hybrid space that becomes a center of inspiration, “both of the shared-synergetic behavior and of the form and expression of the architecture..” Continue Reading →
With her colorful ‘Neon wallpapers’ and her delicate luminous weavings the Danish textile designer Astrid Krogh has not only lighten up some rather dry environments such as the Danish Parliament or the headquarter of the Danish State Railway – many of her works are associated with the architecture of well-known international practices.
Artist Astrid Krogh uses neon lights instead of paint as her medium to create bright wall displays. Her latest neon light installation is ‘Flora’, a decoration for the Nikolai Quarter in Kolding, Denmark, which was commissioned by the Commune of Kolding.
In contrast to Astrids previous neon tapestries ‘Flora’ is less patterned but a very free composition of old floral ornaments.
For her 12 x 11 meters installation, the artist used 220 meters of neon tubes.
