Nørreport Station wins the Danish Lighting Award 2016
Nørreport Station is announced as the winner of the Danish Lighting Award 2016 – awarded for the way light supports and guides the natural flow of people while underlining the architectural concept. The light design at Nørreport Station has been crucial for the project to avoid dark areas and reduce the sense of insecurity.
Presented since 2008 by The Danish Lighting Center, the award promotes the use of good and appropriate lighting and disseminates information for the improvement of the lighted environment to the benefit of society.
See more info here.
Krøyers Plads wins the Green GOOD DESIGN Award 2017
Krøyers Plads is the winner of the Green GOOD DESIGN Award 2017. Founded in 1950 by Eero Saarinen and Charles and Ray Eames, the award identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and aims to bestow international recognition to the companies that have forwarded exceptional thinking towards a more healthy and sustainable universe.
Read more about the award here, presented by The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.
Krøyers Plads completed
Krøyers Plads is finally completed and its residents have moved in. The 3 five-story housing units takes its inspiration in the building typology already found in the surrounding area – the industrial warehouse. As a continuation of the existing warehouse structure along the harbour front, all situated perpendicular to the water’s edge with characteristic gables in varying heights, Krøyers Plads becomes a contemporary version of the warehouse, deeply anchored in the typology and the historical site in Copenhagen.
Dan Stubbergaard appointed Distinguished Guest Professor at the University of Washington
For the spring quarter 2017, Dan Stubbergaard will be serving as The Scan|Design Foundation's Distinguished Guest Professor at the University of Washington, Department of Architecture, in Seattle, US, leading a graduate-level architecture design studio. During the professorship, Dan will also be delivering a public lecture at the university.
In 2015, Dan Stubbergaard also headed a Master Studio at the University of Washington.
Cobe to design House of Food Culture on top of coming metro station in Copenhagen
Cobe wins the comeptition to design a House of Food Culture and 5 townhouses including 30 housing units on the prominent and historic avenue of Frederiksberg Allé in Copenhagen!
The House of Food Culture will include food stalls, workshops and educational facilities and will be built on top of the entrance to one of the new stations on Copenhagen's coming metro city ring. With an estimated daily flow of 10,000 people, it will be one of the capital’s new central meeting places and a focal point for urban life.
The House of Food Culture is designed by Cobe as one of four partners of the winning team. Danish NRE Group will build the project. The investors for the project are Union Holding and NRE Denmark, and Arne Elkjær is the engineer.
Presenting Karen Blixens Plads
A new name for the University of Copenhagen's new square and student hang-out is now official: Karen Blixens Plads, named after the famous Danish poet Karen Blixen.
One core element of the design is the creation of high capacity bicycle parking under and around three bicycle hills. Another is the integration of the University’s urban functions with the adjacent nature reserve, Amager Fælled. With its approximately 20.000 m², Karen Blixen Plads will be one of the biggest public squares in Copenhagen.
Nørreport Station wins 2016 WAN Awards
Nørreport Station is announched as the winner of WAN Awards 2016! Once a tired urban space with a chaotic, unsafe and noisy atmosphere, the station is now a place characterised by safety, comfort and efficiency, very people friendly, the jury emphasized.
WAN (World Architecture News) launched in 2005 and is now one of the world's leading suppliers of news to the global architectural community. The yearly WAN Awards celebrates the best in architectural design, as the largest award of its kind, attracting entries from all over the world.
See more information here.
Cobe awarded Gazelle for the fifth year in a row
For the fifth year in a row Cobe is appointed as a Gazelle company by Danish business newspaper Børsen. Every year since 1995, Børsen has selected a small group of Danish high leaping companies, which have shown positive growth each year within four financial years. Accomplishing this five years in a row makes Cobe a Super-Gazelle and places the company in the exclusive group of role models, continuously creating jobs, growth and optimism. Only 3,3% of the 1.805 Gazelle-awarded companies in 2016 have recieved the award 5 years in a row or more.
Cobe and Kilo design architectural terracotta collection
As part of the Our Urban Living Room exhibition, Cobe and Kilo have bridged scales, and together designed a limited edition architectural terracotta collection. As the exhibition refers to the extension of the personal sphere into the cityscape, the collection brings the city back into your personal living room. The collection is inspired by the material and DNA of Cobe’s Forfatterhuset Kindergarten and contains 3 simple objects for everyday use – a small bowl, a flower pot and a vase. Buy them at the Danish Architecture Centre during the run of the Our Urban Living Room exhibition.
See here for link to webshop.
Our Urban Living Room hot off the press
Our publisher Arvinius + Orfeus has just recieved the first print of the Our Urban Living Room book, just as we are about to celebrate the book launch and exhibition opening of Our Urban Living Room on Friday at Danish Architecture Centre.
Order your copy here and see more images of the book on our Facebook page.
