Adidas Meet & Eat wins ICONIC Award 2015
Today, the German Design Council announces Adidas Meet & Eat as the winner of the ICONIC Award 2015 – Visionary Architecture. Cobe will receive the award at the ICONIC Awards Ceremony in October 2015, in Münich, Germany.
This year is the third time, the German Design Council is organising the ICONIC Awards competition – an international competition focusing on the interaction between architecture and design.
Nørreport bicycle parking wins Danish "Skub Op" Award 2015
Yesterday, the City of Copenhagen awarded Nørreport’s bicycle beds the “Skub Op” Award 2015. The award is granted to a project that helps raise the standards for the municipality’s effort in improving the conditions for cyclists. Nørreport's bicycle beds are areas for bicycle parking, which is placed 40 cm below the city floor, in order to create a clear hierarchy between the area for bicycles and the area for city life.
Louisiana Channel releases movie about Cobe
Today, Louisiana Channel released their new movie about Cobe. In “Cobe – Monuments of the Future” you meet Cobe’s Creative Director and Founder, Dan Stubbergaard, for a talk about welfare architecture, learnings from Copenhagen and the creation of monuments for the future.
Watch the movie here.
Cobe wins KUA University Square
Cobe has won the competition for a new urban space and student's campus for the University of Copenhagen. 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, KUA University Square will be one of the biggest public squares in Copenhagen.
The project will be inaugarated in 2017.
Cobe wins visionary gangway project
Cobe together with Jorton, SM Valmont, MOE and Krabbenhøft & Ingolfsson have won the international competition for a new promenade and pedestrian bridge connecting Esbjerg harbour – Denmark's biggest harbour as regards area – with the city center of Esbjerg. The 280 m long bridge takes shape as a branch gradually connecting and growing between the harbor edge and the city. Each turn offers new vantage points with unique views to Esbjerg, the historic surrounding landscape and the water front.
The project will be completed by the end of 2016.
Nørreport Station nearing completion
Nørreport Station is nearing completion with constructions finishing in August 2015. After three years of construction work, the busiest station in Denmark will be an open and welcoming public space with specific thought directed to the needs of cyclists and pedestrians.
Tingbjerg Library starts construction
Today we celebrated the groundbreaking of Tingbjerg's new library – a social beacon for the area, offering a range of activities to the community. The library will open its doors mid-2016.
Krøyers Plads wins Best Residential Development at MIPIM Awards 2015
Last night, Krøyers Plads won the prestigious MIPIM Award at the Awards Prize-giving Ceremony in Cannes, France. Krøyers Plads won in the category Best Residential Development for its sustainable profile combined with world class architecture. Krøyers Plads is the first residential building in Denmark to obtain the Nordic ecolabel ‘Svanemærket’.
Created in 1991, the MIPIM Awards is an internationally-renowned real estate competition. The MIPIM Awards honour the most outstanding and accomplished projects, completed or yet to be built, around the world.
See the other MIPIM award winners here.
Dan Stubbergaard receives the Dreyer Foundation’s Honorary Award
Yesterday, Dan Stubbergaard recieved the Dreyer Foundation’s Honorary Award. The Honorary Award is granted to an architect who has made a particularly valuable contribution within his or her field, and was this year granted to Cobe for “the studio’s brilliant ability to embrace the city's daily life in unpretentious and animating frames.”
Read more about the Dreyer Foundation Honorary Award here.
Farsta centre
Stockholm is one of Europe’s fastest growing city regions. Over the next 30 years it is expected to grow by 140.000 inhabitants. To handle this growth the City of Stockholm has defined 9 strategic growth centres around Stockholm. The first one to be developed is Farsta.
