Architectuur

DSC00597, Copenhagen, Denmark

Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:44:42 GMT

Copenhagen, the capital city of Denmark, is situated on the east coast of the Danish island of Zealand, the largest of Denmark’s approximately 500 islands. The entire country is in size, one half the area of Maine. The name Copenhagen or “Kobenhavn” means “Merchant Harbor” and it is believed that the city was founded in 1167 by Bishop Absalon, at the spot where fishermen and merchants gathered to market their goods.

See set comments for “Copenhagen Denmark Overview”.

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Skuespilhuset, Copenhagen

Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:40:33 GMT

The Royal Danish Play House

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c.f.hansen, copenhagen city hall and courts, 1803-1816

Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:40:08 GMT

copenhagen city hall and courts, 1803-1816.
architect: c.f. hansen, 1756-1845.

entrance to the building which today houses the city court.

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vandkunsten, architects: torpedohallen, naval shipyard conversion, holmen,...

Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:39:04 GMT

torpedohallen, conversion of naval shipyard building to housing, holmen copenhagen, 1953 / 2000-2003.
architects: tegnestuen vandkunsten.

after 14 years as an architect at vandkunsten, I recently decided to quit my job and thought these february photos of the torpedo boat hall conversion, the very first project I worked on, would be a good way to mark that rather momentous decision.

for now, I am going to be spending some time with my children, but if anyone hears of a job for an experienced architect in greater copenhagen, let me know :)

www.vandkunsten.com

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vandkunsten, architects: torpedohallen, naval shipyard conversion, holmen,...

Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:38:38 GMT

torpedohalltorpedohallen, conversion of naval shipyard building to housing, holmen copenhagen, 1953 / 2000-2003.
architects: tegnestuen vandkunsten.

I uploaded some very bleak february photos of torpedohallen, the first building I worked on at vandkunsten; it felt like a fitting way to mark that I left the office after 14 years.

here are a few shots from around five o'clock on a june morning to show you another aspect of the house. the sun had been up for a while and light was coming from the northeast. seeing something you know well under a new light can be a revelation, which I suppose could also be said to be the point of the winter photos.

www.vandkunsten.com

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Copenhagen architecture - Arial No.3

Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:38:20 GMT

Copenhagen based photographer Thomas Rousing, captures the beauty of everyday life in the city and objects found on his way through it. He seeks to explore the interestingness of making images filled with endless views and colorful details.

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Copenhagen

Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:37:49 GMT

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c.f.hansen, christiansborg palace church, copenhagen, 1810-1826

Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:37:05 GMT

christiansborg palace church, copenhagen, 1810-1826.
architect: c.f. hansen, 1756-1845.

final c.f.hansen interior for now.

the palace church gives a rather moving idea of just how much was lost when hansen's christiansborg palace burnt down.

as in the photos below, daylight is filtered through a layered construction, ultimately hiding the source of light from the visitor. a single oculus in the dome tells of the time of day.

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Copenhagen images - Architecture #3

Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:36:47 GMT

Danish architecture has evolved from squares and boxes, to spheres and impossible shapes.

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jean nouvel, danish radio concert hall, copenhagen 2002-2009

Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:36:22 GMT

danish radio concert hall, copenhagen, denmark 2002-2009.
architect: jean nouvel (b.1945)

an almost non-existing facade based on scaffolding, placed in one of the most desolate corners of new copenhagen neighbourhood ørestad which in itself is largely a collection of desolate corners, there could hardly be a stranger introduction to one of the most expensive concert halls in recent times.

but nouvel's scoop is to hint at a rich inner world, to say that the true city is inside. I have aldo van eyck's essay on labyrinthian clarity from the situationist times, issue 4, here in front of me. it could be the programmatic subtext of nouvel's concert hall even if van eyck would have been stupefied to learn just how heterogenous a single building can become when based on his famous line,

for a house is a tiny city, a city a huge house.

nouvel avoids repeating a single detail from major space to major space and one of the questions posed by his house in ørestad is if such complexity can be held together simply by a perimeter of blue fabric. nouvel might have answered with one of the concluding lines from van eyck,

I have...found it expedient to define space simply as the appreciation of it, thus excluding all frozen properties attributed to it academically.

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