Krøyers Plads awarded best housing project in Copenhagen
Since 1902, the City of Copenhagen has once a year awarded the best buildings and urban environments of Copenhagen with the purpose to inspire architects and their commissioners to create innovative contemporary architecture, and thus increase quality of life for all inhabitants of Copenhagen.
This year, Krøyers Plads is awarded Best Housing Project in the city, presented today at Copenhagen's city hall by Mayor of Culture and Leisure Carl Christian Ebbesen.
Cobe at CAFx 2017
Copenhagen Architecture Festival 2017 kicks off Thursday April 27, and in collaboration with the festival, Cobe will be hosting a series of unique events.
In addition, Dan Stubbergaard has together with designer Henrik Vibskov curated five films during the festival running from April 27 until May 7.
Debates:
3 May 2017: CAFx Cobe: Papirøen Revisited
4 May 2017: CAFx DR K and Cobe: Fantastiske Forvandlinger
Films:
27 April – 6 May 2017: Dan Stubbergaard x Henrik Vibskov
Krøyers Plads wins Architizer 2017 A+ Award
Krøyers Plads is the Architizer A+ Award Jury Winner in the Multi Unit Housing – Mid Rise (5-15 Floors) Category!
As the world’s largest and fastest growing website for architecture, Architizer's awards programme received entries from more than 100 countries this year representing the best of architecture and design worldwide.
Read more about the winners of Architizer’s 2017 A+ Awards here.
Cobe shortlisted in international competition for aquatics centre on Paper Island in Copenhagen
Cobe – together with BIG, Hundsbæk & Henriksen, SLA, Dansk Energi Management & Esbensen, Teknologisk Institut, Gade & Mortensen and A KASSEN – is among 5 teams selected to participate in the international competition for the design of an aquatics centre and harbour pool uniquely located on Paper Island in the heart of Copenhagen's harbour.
The project is part of Cobe’s winning masterplan for Paper Island where a series of new halls for informal, public functions are envisioned, one of them being a swimming hall. Private housing will be placed on top of the halls encircling a green and intimate courtyard.
Cobe strengthens in-house landscape competences
Cobe’s landscape team is growing strong. This week, we welcome the 10th landscape architect to the office, ensuring unique in-house landscape capabilities and expertise.
Roskilde Festival Folk High School celebrates groundbreaking
Roskilde Festival Folk High School is at the next stage of development as the project begins its construction today. The 3,000 m² Roskilde Festival Folk High School is the first newly-established and newly-built folk high school of its kind in Denmark in 45 years, and also includes additional 2,600 m² student housing.
Roskilde Festival Folk High School and student housing will be completed in 2018 and is part of the masterplan for ROCKmagneten transforming the existing cement factories on site into a district for rock music, creativity and youth culture. Cobe won the competition for ROCKmagneten in 2009 together with MVRDV.
Cobe to transform Deutzer Hafen in Cologne
The planning work for Deutzer Hafen in Cologne has started up. The project transforms the old industrial harbour of Cologne into a lively and sustainable new neighbourhood with a huge waterfall and public swimming pool as landmark.
Cobe at MIPIM
Cobe will be attending the upcoming MIPIM conference in Cannes, France, running 14-17 March 2017, with our finalist project for the MIPIM Awards 2017: Paper Island.
We look forward to meeting many of our clients, collaborators and colleagues in Cannes. Please don’t hesitate to contact us for a meeting.
Architectural terracotta collection honoured in Wallpaper* Design Awards 2017
Our architectural terracotta collection, designed in collaboration with Kilo Design, has been honoured in Wallpaper* Design Awards 2017. Inspired by Cobe’s Forfatterhuset Kindergarten and its unique brick slats and green roof gardens, the pots bridge scale and design, and bring the city and architecture into the living room.
See more info here.
Frederiksvej Kindergarten wins Archdaily 2017 Building of the Year Award
Frederiksvej Kindergarten has won the prestigious 2017 Building of the Year Award – hosted by Archdaily, the world's most visited architecture blog. More than 75.000 ArchDaily readers around the world have voted and chosen the 16 best works in 2016. Frederiksvej Kindergarten wins for Best Educational Architecture.
Read more and see the 15 other awarded projects here.
