West Don Lands wins 2019 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence
Cobe and Architects Alliance's affordable housing project in Toronto, West Don Lands, has been awarded the 2019 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence.
The project stacks the architectural components from the three surrounding neigbourhoods: townhouses, warehouses and silos, creating a complex that both adapts to its surroundings and contributes by adding new distinctive, robust architecture. Consisting of three buildings, two of which Cobe has designed, the project contains 761 market rental apartment units including 30 percent affordable rental units.
Quote from jury member Joe Lobko:
"This project reminds us of the basic rules of great urbanism: buildings that help define streets and public spaces, with a vibrant ground plane and appropriately scaled and shaped built form that artfully interprets its historic context, while accommodating a wide range of use and population. It works on so many levels. The approach to affordable housing for this privileged site is timely, ambitious and appropriate for provincial land such as this".
Roskilde Festival Folk High School wins German Design Award 2020
Cobe and MVRDV have won the distinguished German Design Award 2020 for Roskilde Festival Folk High School. The project is part of the Musicon district in the city of Roskilde, where a former industrial area has been transformed into a bustling new neigbourhood consisting of a school, student housing, and a rock museum, among others.
The jury of the German Design Council has given the following statement on awarding the folk high school:
"The colorful cubes, integrated into the existing architecture of the old concrete factory through a distinctive box-in-box concept, act as classrooms reminiscent of the modern interior style of a start-up company. A refreshingly-different choice of architecture for a school, which underlines the informal teaching style beautifully."
The German Design Award identifies and presents unique design trends and is given to projects that truly represent pioneering contributions to the German and international design landscape. See more info here.
Cobe Sessions No 4: From C40 to 2025
In October the world’s mayors met in Copenhagen at the C40 World Mayors Summit to discuss climate solutions worldwide. As the C40 host city, Copenhagen has a goal to be the world’s first carbon-neutral city by 2025. What strategies and concrete measures will get us there? And is Copenhagen able to achieve the goal in time?
Join us for a prominent debate between Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, Frank Jensen, CEO of Realdania, Jesper Nygård, and Architect and Founder of Cobe, Dan Stubbergaard. The debate is moderated by Journalist, Mikkel Frey Damgaard.
The session will be in Danish. FREE admission. NO registration. Cobe Sessions is a recurring event held at Cobe's studio in Copenhagen’s Nordhavn. We invite different players in the architecture and design business to share and discuss their work. The in-studio café run by Cobe and Depanneur is open during and after the event, where you are welcome to have a drink and hang out. See more info here.
Time and location:
December 5 2019 at 4.00-8.00 pm at Cobe's studio, Orientkaj 4, DK-2150 Nordhavn.
Free give-away: New book about The Silo
Following the Global Galvanizers Award that Cobe received last year for The Silo, European General Galvanizers Association (EGGA) has published a limited edition paperback book about The Silo, written by Isabelle Priest. The book explores the critically acclaimed project in details, telling about everything from the local history to the construction process and the interior and exterior of the building.
Get your free copy at our in-studio café – first come, first served.
New spectacular square in Copenhagen, promoting green transportation, climate change adaptation and biodiversity
Late August was the official opening of a new, major square at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark: Karen Blixens Plads.
The square has a unique undulating landscape with bicycle hills and plant beds. It is one of the largest public spaces in Copenhagen and has room for more than 2,000 parked bicycles, two-thirds of them in covered spaces inside the bicycle hills. In a soft transition, Karen Blixens Plads brings together the university's need for urban spaces and bicycle parking with the open landscape of the neigbouring common, promoting green transportation, climate change adaptation and biodiversity.
A closer look at greater Copenhagen’s new public transport landmark: Køge Nord Station
In early summer, greater Copenhagen’s new public transport hub, Køge Nord Station, was officially opened. A spectacular foot-bridge, a station and a park area, hovering high-speed trains, local trains and the busiest motorway in the country. Designed by Cobe, DISSING+WEITLING architecture and COWI, the station forms a significant hub for green mobility, and provides access to more efficient and sustainable public transport for everyone going to and from the Danish capital.
'Architects, not Architecture' returns to Copenhagen, featuring Dan Stubbergaard
The unique event format 'Architects, not Architecture' will be held in Copenhagen on October 10 2019, with architect and founder of Cobe, Dan Stubbergaard, as key note speaker, sharing his background and the formative experiences that shaped his work. The speaker line-up also includes Sheila O'Donnell, founder of O'Donnell+Tuomey (Dublin), and Morten Schmidt, co-founder of Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects (Aarhus).
Learn more about AnA and book tickets for the event here.
Tingbjerg Library is an honoree of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award 2019
Tingbjerg Library and Culture House is an honoree in the Spaces, Place, and Cities category in Fast Company's 2019 Innovation by Design Award.
The award highlights designers and businesses solving the problems of today and tomorrow and the 2019 applicants pool had more than 4,300 entries from around the world.
Click the link to see all the honorees of Fast Company's 2019 Innovation by Design Award.
Cobe to design new Opera Park in Copenhagen
The Opera Park is a generous public park, centrally located in Copenhagen’s inner harbor and next door to the Royal Opera House. The purpose is to create a lush green space at the water’s edge where the hustle and bustle of everyday city life is put on hold and where nature and calmness take over.
The park is a contemporary translation of classical English romantic gardens and features more than 80 different species of trees, plants and flowers – injecting an island of biodiversity into the city’s heart. The park’s centerpiece is a greenhouse, nestled into the trees, with a café and a vertical connection to the underground parking facility for 300 cars. The surrounding area is rapidly being developed to meet the demands of Copenhagen’s increasing population, while the Opera Park will stand as an open and public space filled only with its diverse plant life as well as the lives of Copenhageners and those who will visit its newest green space.
Red Cross Volunteer House shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2019
Red Cross Volunteer House has been shortlisted in the civic building category for Dezeen Awards 2019! Built for Denmark's 34,000 Red Cross volunteers, it has also been designed as a public space and an urban living room for the city.
The Dezeen awards programme celebrates the world's best new architecture, interiors and design, and the volunteer house was selected among 4,500 entries from 87 different countries, judged by an international panel comprised of 75 leading figures from the architecture and design world. Organised by Dezeen, the world's most popular and influential architecture and design website, Dezeen Awards is the benchmark for international design excellence. The winner of each category will be announced in October 2019.
See the shortlisted projects for Dezeen Awards 2019 here.
