Open for business
Dear clients, collaborators and friends,
Cobe is closed for Corona, but open for business. Following the Danish Government’s guidelines to limit the spread of Covid-19, we have taken necessary actions to keep our colleagues, clients, collaborators and community safe.
This means for Cobe:
- As many employees as possible are working from home.
- Travel activities are replaced by virtual meetings.
- The number of physical meetings are reduced and replaced by virtual ones.
- Our café in Nordhavn is temporarily closed.
This situation has been met with an extraordinary level of energy from everybody at Cobe. Our commitment to meet each project’s obligations and to maintain each team’s productivity remain our highest priorities. We are collaborating and cooperating closer than ever, while working from our home offices across Copenhagen. When the situation stabilizes, we are looking forward to seeing you all again. In the meantime, don’t hesitate to reach out to us on any of our platforms for questions or business.
Best Regards,
Dan Stubbergaard and the Cobe team
The Bella City district secures midterm DGNB Gold certification
The Bella City district in Copenhagen is the first urban area in Denmark to be midterm certified with a DGNB Gold certification, demonstrating an outstanding commitment to meeting sustainability objectives. Created in a collaboration between Solstra Development, Cobe and Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects, Bella City has received the mid-term gold certification after 25% of the area has been completed.
Køge Nord Station wins Denmark's Structure Award 2019
The International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) has awarded Køge Nord Station with Denmark's Structure Award 2019, highlighting the station's advanced engineering and unique architectural design. Built over two important railway lines as well as Denmark’s busiest stretch of motorway with nearly 100,000 cars passing daily, Køge Nord Station enables more efficient and sustainable transport to and from the Danish capital, thereby helping to reduce car congestion throughout Copenhagen's metropolitan area.
The Ultra-Fast Charging Stations win ArchDaily Building of the Year 2020 Awards
ArchDaily has announced Cobe's Ultra-Fast Charging Stations as winner of Building of the Year 2020 Awards. The award is the world's largest architecture prize centered around people’s opinion. Altogether, 15 projects from around the globe have won the prestigious award, out of almost 4,000 nominated projects and with more than 95,000 votes. The stations for electric cars won the award in the 'Commercial Architecture' category.
See more info about the winners of ArchDaily Building of the Year 2020 Awards here.
Cobe to design new neighbourhood in Dortmund
Cobe has won the competition to design Dortmund’s new harbor neigbourhood, 'Hafenquartier Speicherstrasse', the transformation of the biggest channel harbor in Europe. The winning project focuses on creating a city where creativity, technology and sustainability goes hand in hand, giving new life to the abandoned industrial buildings at the harbor front. This includes the re-use of a silo and an enormous industrial 13,000 m² hall, transforming it into a new technology campus with auditoriums, workshops, exhibition spaces and foodhalls for the city’s booming tech-industry and creative start-up companies.
Make sure to visit the exhibition about the project at Studieninstitut Ruhr, Königswall 25-27, 44137 Dortmund, opening today at 6:00 pm in connection with the award ceremony.
Køge Nord Station is finalist for MIPIM Awards 2020
Køge Nord Station is finalist for MIPIM Awards 2020, selected among 228 entries from 45 countries around the world. Fingers crossed for the MIPIM Awards Ceremony on 12 March when the winner will be announced.
Visit MIPIM Awards for more information.
Our Urban Living Room officially opens to the public at Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin
On January 17, Cobe and Aedes Architecture Forum celebrated the official exhibition opening of Our Urban Living Room in Berlin, Germany. An exhibition that tells a story about the architectural and urban development of Copenhagen, while exploring the progression of the Danish capital – from an industrial city into an urban living room – known as one of the world’s most livable places.
We thank our clients, collaborators, friends and sponsors, including Dreyers Fond, Tømmerhandel Johannes Fogs Fond, Knud Højgaards Fond and Konkuruz.com, for making the exhibition possible.
The exhibition continues until April 30 2020. Admission is free.
Visit www.aedes-arc.de for more information
Our Urban Living Room opens in Berlin
On 17 January 2020, Cobe and Aedes Architecture Forum open the doors to the exhibition ‘Our Urban Living Room’ in Berlin. The exhibition invites visitors to experience the city from a new perspective – as an extended living room in which the boundaries between the private and public space are erased. The exhibition presents a selection of realized Cobe projects. Using models, images, texts, drawings and films, an expansive wooden installation also tells a story about Copenhagen's architectural development and how these changes affect the everyday lives of people and their social interactions.
This is Cobe's third ‘Our Urban Living Room’ exhibition, following its first at the Danish Architecture Centre in Copenhagen in 2016, and later at Laituri in Helsinki in 2018. The revised edition is developed by Cobe in collaboration with Aedes, and generously supported by Dreyers Fond, Tømmerhandel Johannes Fogs Fond and Knud Højgaards Fond. 'Our Urban Living Room' runs from 17 January to 30 April 2020 at Aedes Architecture Forum, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin, Germany. See more info here.
All of adidas under one roof
In 2019, the iconic sports brand adidas had its 70th anniversary. And in 2018, the world-famous company with the three iconic stripes opened the HALFTIME building – a huge and striking new building that forms part of its corporate headquarters, ‘World of Sports’, in Germany.
In addition to a canteen for all HQ employees, the building contains meeting rooms, a conference center and a showroom where the company’s high-profile brand ambassadors can stop by to see the latest designs, collections and ideas. To accommodate the many internal and public functions that HALFTIME includes, the building is versatile and multi-purpose, bringing together as many of the company’s activities and functions as possible together under one roof. The huge rhomboid roof covers the entire building like a carpet, bringing staff, visitors and brand ambassadors together and thus enabling more and wider contacts.
Cobe Sessions Podcast, episode 2, is online
The second episode of Cobe Sessions Podcast is out now, recapitulating 'Cobe Sessions – From C40 to 2025'. Meet Cobe's Founder Dan Stubbergaard, Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, Frank Jensen and CEO of Realdania, Jesper Nygård, discussing Copenhagen's sustainable future. The debate is moderated by Journalist, Mikkel Frey Damgaard.
Subscribe at your preferred podcast service or follow this link to listen to the podcast. This podcast is in Danish.
Cobe Sessions is a recurrent event held at our studio in Copenhagen’s Nordhavn where Cobe invites different players in the architecture and design business to share and discuss their work.
