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New Museum Garden
Copenhagen Landscape at National Gallery of Denmark ? design by POLYFORM Architects
page updated 27 Dec 2016 with new photos ; 18 Nov 2014
New Museum Garden in Copenhagen
Location: Statens Museum for Kunst, Sølvgade 48-50, Copenhagen, Denmark
Architect: POLYFORM Architects
A melting pot of art and Copenhagen life
The new landscape in front of The National Gallery of Denmark is designed as a melting pot ? where art can mix with urban life. The urban space is created by Danish POLYFORM Architects and Dutch landscape architects Karres en Brands and has received a warm welcome from the Copenhageners. At the opening event the museum set a new visitor record as almost 8.000 people celebrated the city?s new artsy urban space.
photo : WHelle Kristiansent
POLYFORM partner Thomas Kock explains how the urban space is designed to be accessible and welcoming to everyone: ?This garden is meant for both the museum and the city ? its embracing design obviously gives an easy accessible entry to the arts, but it also gives the general public a new green urban space to meet up in, the option to sit down by the fountain and maybe enjoy art happenings and events.? Thomas Kock also underlines that the new urban space is the exact opposite of the previous baroque-inspired garden and it?s strict, closed off design: ?Today soft round islands of grass and winding pathwa...