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Katuaq Cultural Centre of Greenland in Nuuk
Visitors Facility in Greenland – by Schmidt Hammer Lassen, Architects
23 Feb 2017
Katuaq Cultural Centre of Greenland
Architects: Schmidt Hammer Lassen
Location: Nuuk, Greenland
Katuaq Cultural Centre of Greenland in Nuuk celebrates its 20th anniversary

This week, the Katuaq Cultural Centre of Greenland in Nuuk celebrates its 20th anniversary. When opened in 1997 the building provided for the first time a cultural and artistic meeting place for both locals, the international Inuit community and visitors from all over the world. Built to last and survive Greenland’s unforgiving climate, the cultural centre still stands today as a dynamic meeting point catering for a diversity of activities from concerts, cinema, theatre performances, conferences, exhibitions to public events. No larger images for pictures below:

In 1992 Schmidt Hammer Lassen won the international design competition ahead of 226 proposals, with a concept inspired by the dramatic Greenlandic landscape of winding fjords moving glaciers, icebergs and in winter the inspiring, undulating northern lights.

Katuaq Cultural Centre reflects these elements: the surging, bright, timber-clad fa̤ade, with its luminous skylight symbolizes the northern lights Рthe triangular, monolithic dark body of the building represents the iceberg Рthe interior bright, white fo...