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Equestrian Staircase

The Round Tower is a 17th-century tower located in central Copenhagen. It was built by Christian IV of Denmark as an astronomical observatory.

View from the top of the tower

Helical corridor leading to the top

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Yellow brick floors and exterior

Hard wood floors

Wooden columns in the observatory

Plastered interior walls

Copper dome

Brick Masonary

Wood Copper Plaster

Copper and Glass Exterior

Cobblestone floor

Concrete columns

AXEL TOWERS

Located at the center of Alextrov Square, this mixed use office space serves primarily as the headquarters of an international law firm. Completed in 2017, it uses traditional materials such as copper in a modernist interpretation.

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Flooring

Copper

Cobblestone

Concrete

BLOX - DAC

Home to the Danish Architecture Center, the Blox building uses stacked boxes that hark back to the shipping containers that once lined the harbor at Copenhagen. The color scheme aims to reflect both the water and patinated copper found all over the city.

model showing massing and materiality

Physical

View from across the harbor

Concrete

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Concrete partition wall

Prefabricated concrete

Exposed concrete

Prefabricated

Concrete

Exposed Concrete

Fabric

Wood

Ceramic tiled flooring and altar

Fabric carpets

Treated wooden pews

Ceramic Tiles

DR KONCERTHUSET

Located in the northern part of Ørestad, the DR Koncerthuset is the new headquarters of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. The concert complex consists of four halls with the main auditorium seating 1,800 people. Construction was completed in 2009 at cost of 5B DKK.

Main Concert Hall

Flensborg brick masonry construction

Ceramic shingles on the roof

Flensborg Brick Wood

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Ceramic tiled flooring Wooden chairs

Ceramic Shingles

Ceramic tiles

ORDRUPGAARD MUSEUM

Ordrupgaard is a stateowned art museum situated near Jægersborg Dyrehave, north of Copenhagen. The museum houses one of Northern Europe’s most considerable collections of Danish and French art from the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

Staircase detail

Threshold

Concrete walls

Aluminum structured skylights

Granite tiled floors

Concrete walls

Wood floors

Wood panelled roof

Glass curtain walls

Masonary tiled floors

Concrete walls

Masonary tiled floors

Marble floors

Concrete walls

Marble toppped

concrete stairs

Masonary walls

Wood topped concrete stairs

Masonary walls

Wooden panelled stairs

Masonary walls

Masonary tile topped

concrete stairs

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Glazing

Galvanized steel to be used as planters

Recycled plastic fibres and grasss forming an artificial ski slope

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Steel Artificial Ski Slope

View from the top of Copenhill

Galvanized

Concrete

CISTERNS IN SØNDERMARKEN

Exhibit with the cisterns

The cistern is currently a part of the Frederiksberg Museum and is used as an exhibition space. Located under Frederiksberg Hill in the heart of Søndermarken Park, it once contained the supply of drinking water for the Danish capital and could hold as much as 16 million litres of clean water.