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Utzon Center, Aalborg
New Architecture in Jutland, Denmark design by Kim Utzon Arkitekter
post updated 10 October 2021
Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark
New photos taken today of this contemporary Danish building:

photos © Adrian Welch

internal colonnade:

building sculpted roof example:

Sydney Opera House building tiles test sample:

and explanatory text:

27 Nov 2008
Utzon Center Aalborg
Date: 2008
Design: Kim Utzon Architects
Photographs: Torben Eskerod Denmark

The Site
The Centre is situated at the harbourfront with seaview, in the parksequence, characteristic for the new harbour front area in Aalborg.
The platform creates a basis for the buildings around the courtyard, and emphasizes it as a special place, where the sun creates a southern like micro climate that invites you to stay.

The organisation with the secluded volumes around the courtyard, offers a transparency through the access slits between the volumes. They invite you to stroll informally through the building or just to look at the varied views they offer.

The Building
The building complex is a concept of individual buildings, creating a special place around a courtyard on a platform, with the surrounding sculptural and varied roofscape.
The auditorium, the boathall and the library are designed with dramatic and very tall sculptural roofs.
These roofs are emphasized by the buildings in between, the exhib...