Krøyers Plads Housing Copenhagen, Copenhagen Nordic Eco Development, Danish Architecture Images
Krøyers Plads Housing, Copenhagen
Inner Harbour Development Denmark ? design by Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects / COBE, architects
13 Jan 2017
Krøyers Plads Housing in Copenhagen
Location: Krøyer Square, Copenhagen, Denmark
Design: Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter and COBE, architects
13th January 2017 – Krøyers Plads is a five-story housing project with a significant location in the centre of the Copenhagen harbour area designed by Danish architects Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects and COBE. The award-winning and Nordic Eco-labelled project is now finished. The project is based on a hyper-democratic and contextual approach where folded roofs and architectural heaviness create a dialogue between old and new, and a modern, empathetic interpretation of the architectural uniqueness of the old Copenhagen warehouses.
Illustrations: Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects and COBE. Photographer: Rasmus Hjortshøj – COAST.
Krøyers Plads is a significant location in the centre of the Copenhagen harbour area. The site constituted a gap in the continuous rows of old warehouses that sit perpendicular to the harbour and was an architectural and political battlefield in Copenhagen for more than a decade. When the final building design for this beautiful historical site was developed by Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects and COBE, many architectural proposals had already been rejected by local organiz...