The Opera Park wins 2024 AZ Award for Best Landscape Design
The Opera Park has been honored with the 2024 AZ Award for Best Landscape Design. Described as “a horticultural archipelago", this award was determined by a public vote.
The AZ Awards is a significant benchmark for excellence, recognizing and showcasing the world's best projects in architecture, landscape architecture, and design by AZURE Magazine, and revealed and celebrated at the AZ Awards Gala in Toronto every year.
Discover 'Islands of Wellbeing' at 3daysofdesign
In collaboration with Fritz Hansen, Cobe presents 'Islands of Wellbeing' at this year’s 3daysofdesign festival in Copenhagen. Set in The Opera Park, and Paper Island, the collaboration offers a unique opportunity to explore and express a shared vision for the future of wellbeing through extraordinary design and architecture.
Mark your calendars and join us between June 12-14 in Copenhagen.
Cobe unveils community meeting places for Realdania's 25th anniversary
In celebration of Realdania's 25th anniversary, Cobe has teamed up with ReVærk, Archival Studies, Pihlmann Architects, Rumgehør, and Studio XYZ to create 150 new communal spaces in Denmark.
Named The Workshop, The Conservatory, The Nature Base, and The Community Roof, the communal spaces are a series of small pavilions, designed with the goal of maximizing community interaction while minimizing environmental impact. The meeting places will be constructed using recycled, surplus, and biogenic materials, and they are also designed for future disassembly and recycling, ensuring they leave no physical traces on their sites. By the end of 2026, at least 150 of these structures will be built around Denmark. The meeting places are gifted to communities, with the sole requirement of strengthening and uniting the local community.
To apply for a pavilion or explore the designs, visit this link.
The Opera Park wins Architizer A+ Awards 2024
The Opera Park is named jury winner at the 12th Architizer A+Award 2024. The jury has awarded The Opera Park the title of Best Public Park and Green Space.
Founded on the premise of democratizing architecture, the A+Awards is the industry’s largest and most international awards program and honors the best architecture and spaces from across the globe.
Two Cobe projects honored with the City of Copenhagen's Architecture Award: Inner Nordhavn and The Opera Park
Two Cobe projects have received the City of Copenhagen's highest honor – Inner Nordhavn has been recognized for its extensive urban transformation of a former closed industrial port area into a diverse and vibrant city district, and The Opera Park has been awarded for creating a new green lung in the heart of the city’s bustling harbor.
Cobe wins design contest for Munich's 'Sugar Valley'
Cobe has won the design contest for a new multi-use building complex at the former Sendlinger concrete factory site in Munich, Germany. Transformed into a new residential, commercial, and cultural neighborhood known as 'Sugar Valley', the project invites the neighborhood in with a special focus on a mix of office, retail, and public amenities.
Spanning two buildings of 36,200 m², the project celebrates community through generous and inviting architecture, with both the top and ground floors open to the public. The design rests on the idea of a set of volumes stacked on top of each other providing a series of green terraces and facades at different heights of the building.
Cobe wins design competition for vibrant new urban neighborhood in Berlin
Cobe has won the competition to design a new urban neighbourhood in the heart of Neukölln, Berlin, Germany. The neighbourhood will encompass 300 homes of different ownership types and sizes, and be an lush, inviting and community-oriented mixed-use area connected to the nearby river.
Corum breaks ground
The construction of ‘Corum’, previously know as ‘Falk Areal', has started in the German city of Freiburg.
Inspired by the neighboring historic freight depot and its pitched roofs and rational, industrial design language, Corum is envisioned as a place of encounters and exchange - a lively meeting point for working, living and culture in the area. Developed by Lifa Breisgau, the future campus will provide 350 workplaces, including the headquarters of the pharmaceutical company Dr. Falk Pharma and the Falk Foundation, alongside restaurants and public amenities. Set for completition in 2026, the building is on track for DGNB gold certification, with a flexible, future-proof design and a modular hybrid timber construction.
Cobe selected to design the future Museum Wegner
Cobe has been chosen as the architect for the future Museum Wegner. The museum will be located at the historic ‘Hestholm’ farm - approximately one kilometer from the city center of Tønder - a historical town in Southern Denmark at the border to Germany, where Hans J. Wegner was born and where he served his apprenticeship as a carpenter.
"We are humbled and honoured to have the opportunity to pay tribute to Hans J. Wegner - one of the great masters of Danish design. The new museum will be located at ‘Hestholm’ - one of the historic marsh farms in the Tønder area. In a mix of transformation of the existing farm and new extensions, the museum will provide the physical setting for Wegner's design universe in a way that respects the nature and cultural heritage of the local area, while also incorporating the international appeal that defines Wegner's furniture" - Cobe founder and architect, Dan Stubbergaard.
Four architecture firms join forces to shape Copenhagen's harbourfront
In a unique collaboration among four Danish architecture firms – Cobe, Dorte Mandrup, JAJA Architects and Vandkunsten – alongside Sweco engineers, Cobe will be designing a dynamic mixed-use city district with up to 100,000 m² of harbor front housing and commercial spaces, interconnected by canals, bridges, and lush green areas in Copenhagen’s South Harbor.
The project will focus on addressing the need for housing to be accessible to all in Copenhagen. It will include up to 1,000 large and small rental apartments and condominiums, and more than 25% of the total housing area will be designed as social housing. The ambition is to use biogenic materials wherever possible – including wood for structures. All buildings will target DGNB platinum certification and be constructed to align with the Reduction Roadmap initiative, that translates the principles of the Paris Agreement and the Planetary Boundary for Climate Change into CO₂ reduction targets for new Danish housing projects.
