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

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:00:54 GMT

torpedohallen, 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.

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Copenhagen

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:59:21 GMT

Lots more photos to come from my Europe trip, just uploading a couple here as a taste. This is in the centre of Copenhagen in Denmark.

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DSC00608, Copenhagen, Denmark

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:57:58 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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the amazing library of (Denmark #38 Copenhagen, Christiansborg Slot)

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:55:00 GMT

The whole Christianborg Slot is simply amazing but this library hits the top. Books all around. A top floor with no stairs to climb. The small elevator in a doll-house style. Everything is smashing. I loved it. The little boy did too.

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

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:52:37 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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