Last chance to visit Our Urban Living Room in Helsinki
Next week is your last chance to see Cobe's Our Urban Living Room exhibtion in Helsinki, closing on 30 November 2018.
The exhibition and accompanied book is based on Cobe's last 10 years of practice in Copenhagen, grounded in social livability and urban democracy with the aim to create buildings and spaces that invite Copenhageners to use and define them; as an extended living room, where the boundaries between private and public space become fluid.
See more images of the exhibition on our Facebook and Instagram and buy a copy of the Our Urban Living Room book through the online shop of Arvinius+Orfeus Publishing.
Lecture in Cologne
Project Director Caroline Nagel is participating in the round table discussion and lecture 'The Sooner Now' in Cologne, presenting Cobe's Deutzer Hafen and discussing innovative urban development and future living concepts.
The Sooner Now is a joint initiative by Freunde von Freunden and MINI fostering collective imaginations of urban futures. See more info here.
When:
November 20, 2018 at 4:30 PM – 8 PM
Where:
25 Hours Hotel
Im Klapperhof 22-24
50670 Cologne
Germany
Ultra-Fast Charging Stations win Building Awards 2018
Cobe’s Ultra-Fast Charging Stations is named winner of the Infrastructure Prize at Building Awards 2018. The jury found, among other things, that the ultra-fast charging stations are a step in the right direction if Denmark is to be free of petrol and diesel cars.
While it takes approx. five minutes to fill up your car with petrol, charging an electric vehicle today is a more time-consuming exercise. Cobe’s design for the ultra-fast charging station is based on a green rethink of the conventional petrol station. The charging station should not only minimize the charging time, but also create a meaningful break for the driver. The station takes the form of a series of structural ‘trees’, with ‘crowns’ that filter light and shade. The modular approach means that the design is scalable, and that one ‘tree’ can easily be multiplied to become a ‘forest’ depending on the required capacity.
The future is being built in Fredericia these days, with the first ultra-fast charging station under construction, set for completion in 2019.
Stockholm book launch of Our Urban Living Room
We are celebrating the Stockholm book launch of Our Urban Living Room next week. Please join us for two events:
A conversation with Cobe and Veronica Hejdelind from Arwidssonstiftelsen.
When: November 14 2018, 5.30 pm to 7 pm
Where: Konst-Ig, Åsögatan 124, 116 24 Stockholm, Sweden
See more info here
A lecture based on Cobe's ten years of practice, grounded in social liveability and urban democracy
When: November 15 2018. The lecture begins at 6 pm. Mingle with drinks, snacks and book sales from 5.30 pm
Where: Konstakademien, Fredsgatan 12, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden
See more info here
The Silo is nominated for EU Mies Award 2019
Out of 383 projects from 38 countries, The Silo is nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2019.
Biannually, the prize is granted by The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the European Commission to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Europe. In this way, the Award draws attention to the major contribution by European professionals to the development of new ideas and technologies. At the same time, it offers both individuals and public institutions an opportunity to reach a clearer understanding of the cultural role of architecture in the construction of our cities. The Mies van der Rohe Award is the official architecture prize of the European Union.
40 shortlisted projects will be announced in January and the final winner in mid-April 2019.
Read more about the prize here.
Offical opening of Designmuseum Danmark
Desigmmuseum Danmark celebrates their new plaza, entrance, café, ticket office and museum shop with a public grand opening event on Friday November 2 2018. Please join us at 3.30-5.00 pm and celebrate the museum's new entrance where you will have the opportunity to experience and explore design – even before entering the museum.
When:
2 November 2018, 3.30-5.00 pm
Where:
Designmuseum Danmark
Bredgade 6
DK-1260 Copenhagen
Denmark
Tingbjerg Library and Culture House is open to the public
1 October 2018 Tingbjerg Library and Culture House officially opened to the public. The opening was marked by a huge celebration where the public and future users of the building experienced their new community house.
With the opening, Tingbjerg Library and Culture House is a new landmark building that will be a new gathering point for people of all ages and backgrounds. The new library and culture house has been designed with input from the residents of the multicultural Tingbjerg community in western Copenhagen to create a new destination at the heart of their neighbourhood. Cobe’s aim is for the project to serve as an urban catalyst and an architectural framework for social and cultural activities, thereby contributing to a positive development of the local community on the fringe of Copenhagen.
Cobe opens adidas Halftime
On 12 October 2018, Cobe and adidas celebrated the official opening of Halftime – a 14,000 m² event center with integrated employee restaurant, designed by Cobe, in adidas’s headquarters, 'World of Sports' in Germany. The design is guided by adidas' three company behaviors; creativity, collaboration and confidence.
Debate in Copenhagen
Cobe will be participating in the Urgent.Academy – Share Your Practice conference held at Copenhagen Business School in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference is setting out to share the real practices within strategic design, change-making and architecture. Cobe's Dan Stubbergaard will be speaking about how be make spaces that make sense and cater to how we want to live, work and interact with each other.
Sign up here.
When:
11 October 2018, 1:00-5:00 pm
Where:
Copenhagen Business School – Arla Auditorium
Solbjerg Plads 3
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Book about The Silo published
Strandberg Publishing presents Cobe's transformation of The Silo in Nordhavn, Copenhagen. The book contains an interview with Founder of Cobe Dan Stubbergaard, an essay by Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss about the project and Cobe’s work in general, images by COAST Studio and graphics by Studio Atlant.
The 96 pages book is part of a book series of 10 volumes each showcasing and illustrating one building and through this portraying the architecture firm behind it.
Buy the book through the online bookshop of Strandberg Publishing here.
