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.
Official opening of Tingbjerg Library and Culture House
Copenhagen's new meeting place, Tingbjerg Library and Culture House, is finally ready to open to the public. Put an X in your calendar on 1 October 2018, as the new library and culture house invites to the official opening event.
The day will be filled with music, workshops and lectures. The final programme of the day will be announced on the library's Facebook page and website.
When:
1 October 2018, 3:00-9:00 pm
Where:
Skolesiden 4
2700 Brønshøj
Denmark
The Silo wins RENOVER Prisen 2018
The Silo wins RENOVER Prisen 2018, acknowledged as Denmark's best renovation project the past year. Out of 182 entries, the prize was granted last night to the team behind the renovation of the former grain silo in Copenhagen's Nordhavn; Cobe, Klaus Kastbjerg and NRE Denmark. The Silo was awarded with the following words:
"The Silo is a billiant example of an ambitious transformation of a post-industrial harbour area into attractive, exclusive residences. This is of great value as there are multiple abandoned silos located around Denmark's harbour areas, awaiting the decision to be reused or demolished. The recklessness of The Silo's material roughness, the interior design and the groundbreaking architectural facade expression are all so promising and innovative that there is absolutely no doubt about the renovation's calibre."
RENOVER Prisen is an annual award celebrating Denmark's best renovation – funded by Reldania and Grundejernes Investeringsfond. The ambition is to provide the visibility and recognition that the architectural discipline deserves by emphasizing outstanding renovation projects that exist throughout the country. Read more here.
Lecture in Helsinki
Cobe is participating in the annual Finnish Housing Fair, taking place in Helsinki this year, organised in cooperation with the City of Helsinki and the City Living in Jätkäsaari.
Project Manager Alexander Ejsing will deliver a lecture based on Cobe's work in Copenhagen, grounded in social liveability and urban democracy, followed by the opening seminar for the architecture and innovation competition Housing Reform Helsinki – Housing 2020.
When:
7 september 2018, 12:00-4:00 pm
Where:
Clarion Hotellissa, Sitra Auditorio
Ruoholahti
Itämeternkatu 11-13
Helsinki
Finland
Sign up for the lecture here.
Cobe is Architect of the Year Finalist for Dezeen Awards 2018
Cobe has been shortlisted as finalist in the Architect of the Year category for Dezeen Awards 2018. The studio category celebrates all-round design excellence over a body of work by an architect or architecture practice that has been in business for more than ten years.
Dezeen Awards is a new annual prize-giving organized by Dezeen magazine. It will identify the world's best architecture, interiors and design, as well as the studios and the individual architects and designers producing the most outstanding work.
The winner will be announced November 27 2018.
See more info here.
Our Urban Living Room officially opens in Helsinki
Last Thursday, Cobe, Laituri and Arvinius+Orfeus Publishing celebrated the exhibition opening and book launch of 'Our Urban Living Room' during Nights of the Arts in Helsinki.
The exhibition and book is based on Cobe's last 10 years of practice, 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.
Our Urban Living Room runs from 23 August until 30 November 2018.
See more images of the exhibition on our Facebook page here and buy a copy of the book through the online shop of Arvinius+Orfeus Publishing here.
