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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.

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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.

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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.

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Cobe wins competition to transform the harbour of Cologne

Stadt Köln and Moderne Stadt choose Cobe to transform the old industrial harbour of Cologne, Deutzer Hafen, into a new urban district! Together with Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl and Transsolar, we envision a masterplan that includes new housing typologies, public plazas, a new bridge and a public infinity pool where you can take a swim in purified rainwater. The pool ends in a huge waterfall and will cleanse the Rhine River over the coming years. The new neighbourhood in Cologne will provide homes for 5,000 inhabitants and work spaces for another 4,500.

See more images of the project on our Facebook page here.

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Cobe celebrates groundbreaking in Køge

Today, we are celebrating groundbreaking of Køge North Station – a new distinctive landmark for green mobility in the capital region of Copenhagen. The project consists of a 225-meter long pedestrian bridge, a new train station and an associated park and ride facility and will be a new gateway to Copenhagen for the 90.000 people passing through the area daily. Køge North Station is expected to be in use by the end of 2018.

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Cobe wins competition to design island number 1420 in Denmark

Cobe, together with Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects, Sted and Rambøll, wins the competition for Kronløbsøen – a new island in the Inner Nordhavn district in Copenhagen, including 30,000 m² of housing, two urban spaces, three bridges and a three-storey underwater car park.

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Introducing HalfTime

Cobe's building for Adidas will from now on officially go by the name HalfTime. The name for the new building has been chosen from proposals made by Adidas' employees. In July we celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony and the construction is now well under way. HalfTime is expected to be finished in summer of 2018.

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Cobe celebrates groundbreaking at Adidas HQ

Today, the first step towards realising Adidas Meet & Eat – a new conference center, employee restaurant and showroom – is taking place in at the world-renowned sport's brand's headquaters in Herzogenaurach in Germany, where Adidas' CEO Herbert Hainer will cut the first sod together with Dan Stubbergaard. The iconic rhombus-shaped building, which will be the only public building in adidas’ headquarters campus 'World of Sports' and house many different functions for both employees, visitors and sport stars, will be completed in late 2018.

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Nørreport Station awarded the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2016

Among 276 candidatures from 33 countries, Nørreport Station and the City of Copenhagen has received Special Recognition in the prestigious European Prize for Urban Public Space 2016 – representing one of the best interventions carried out in public space in European cities in the past years.

The European Prize for Urban Public Space is a biennial competition organized by seven European institutions with the aim to recognize and encourage the recovery projects and defense of public space in our cities.

See more information here.

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Cobe and MVRDV open Ragnarock

Cobe and MVRDV's museum for pop, rock and youth culture has officially been inaugurated today by His Royal Highness The Crown Prince of Denmark. With a gold studded facade, velvety red interior and daring cantilevered auditorium, Ragnarock museum offers visitors a fully immersive rock experience and acts as a cultural beacon in a former industrial area in Roskilde, Denmark.