villa sørensen, nordre strandvej 53B, elsinore, denmark 1935. architect: arne jacobsen, 1902-1971. teak detailing of back door. I doubt you could find a front door of that order done today :) the reference to maritime detailing typical of the funkis years is discreet and not inappropriate for a villa so close to the coast (or indeed anywhere else). more jacobsen.
2018, London (GB) Winning competition entry via #1, #2
glostrup town hall, glostrup, greater copenhagen, denmark 1953-1959. architect: arne jacobsen, 1902-1971. detail. more jacobsen.
The Ant™ chair’s visual expression is delicate and artful, much like the curves of a musical instrument. Designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1952, the chair is made from nine layers of pressure moulded veneer. Its elegant shape disguises its remarkable strength and comfort. The three-legged Ant is inspired by the simple, agricultural stools created to stand firmly on uneven floors in Danish farmhouses. The chair beautifully exemplifies Jacobsen’s understanding of the inherent strength of raw materials, consisting of only two parts: the combined seat and backrest in form-pressed plywood and a tubular steel frame.
must say, I learn a lot from writing this little Design Icons series. This one is about Arne Jacobsen, famous for this Egg/Swann/Ant chairs. But who would have thought that the little Louis Poulsen lamps (which I use a lot …
1942, Aarhus (DK) via #1, #2
Image 3 of 19 from gallery of Architecture Classics: Aarhus City Hall / Arne Jacobsen + Erik Møller. Photograph by Flickr user iznogut
national bank of denmark, copenhagen, 1961-1978. architect: arne jacobsen, 1901-1971. final stages completed by architects dissing+weitling. the main entrance is almost a doodle in its odd, offhand geometry, but it works surprisingly well, adding humanity with its delicacy without upsetting the monumentality of the closed box. every weekday morning the brass gate is lowered into the basement, revealing a frameless glass door. at five o'clock, the brass gate returns and bankers working overtime leave by the narrow door in its right side, the half-a-keyhole shape providing space for a briefcase held in the right hand. the entrance leads you to a hall 20 meter high with a beautiful 5 floor steel staircase suspended from the ceiling. I have yet to take a picture of that but I recommend all visitors to copenhagen to stop by as the hall is open to the public and one of the best spaces in town. the kidney shaped object to the right holds a letter box and a camera surveilling it. early morning shadows and highlights. more arne jacobsen
Hamburg, Arne Jacobsen, 1963-69. View this on the map
SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen was designed from the inside out by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen. Opened in 1960, the hotel is one of the best examples of gesamtkunstwerk, the concept of a complete artwork. Find out about their rich history and recent renovation by Danish design firm Space Copenhagen.
national bank of denmark, copenhagen, 1961-1978. architect: arne jacobsen, 1901-1971. final stages completed by architects dissing+weitling. I have previously attempted to make the point that jacobsen's career did not simply begin in neoclassicism and end in modernism but rather that it formed a continuous oscillation between the two. as such, the short facades of his national bank, designed just two years after the completion of the all glass SAS royal hotel, can be read as a highly abstract tempel front. the bank replaced an entire 1880's city block and quickly became one of the most unpopular houses in copenhagen, criticized for not fitting in. while popular sentiments may have changed somewhat with the ongoing reappraisal of jacobsen the designer, the fallacy of the original rejection still lingers. the national bank is in fact a piece of highly refined contextualism in which jacobsen rather than mimicking the surrounding buildings consciously connects with certain aspects and certain architects from the long history of copenhagen architecture. in that respect, it is a model monument to my mind but more than that a model methodology as opposed to the post-modern you-build-red-brick-I-build-red-brick urbanism. the bank was designed around the same time as jacobsen's more famous st. catherine's college in oxford. more jacobsen.
Trailing up the coast north of Copenhagen are a string of four white, sandy, couldn’t-be-anywhere-else beaches, accessed both by train and by bike. From south to north, Charlottenlund is the third of
Old Times at Bellevue Beach in Copenhagen Bellevue isn’t just any old beach. In 1931, Arne Jacobsen was invited to enter a competition for a bathing area as part of Gentofte Municipality’s overall …
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Striking designs in architecture also become the sign of great conversations to understand architectural space, as with one of the most surprising staircase of contemporary architecture, the staircase of the National Bank of Denmark, designed by Arne Jacobsen, in the middle of Copenhagen, between 1966 and 1978. A triangular space, where the ascension process is magnified, as has rarely been done in 20th century architecture.
Arne Jacobsen | Music room - St Catherine’s College, 1959-65 Oxford. Via 2G Jacobsen archive + 2 3
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national bank of denmark, copenhagen, 1961-1978. architect: arne jacobsen, 1901-1971. final stages completed by architects dissing+weitling. one of the more elegant curtain walls I have come across, consisting of three layers of glass with a curtain between the two outer layers. more arne jacobsen
Old Times at Bellevue Beach in Copenhagen Bellevue isn’t just any old beach. In 1931, Arne Jacobsen was invited to enter a competition for a bathing area as part of Gentofte Municipality’s overall …
Hotel Radisson Copenhagen has had a complete overhaul.
c.a.c. motorrenovering a/s, aalborg, 1956. architect: arne jacobsen, 1902-1971. somewhat surprisingly, the long facade of jacobsen's aalborg factory building displays a large expanse of glass clearly related to rødovre town hall and the SAS royal hotel as opposed to the short facade reminiscent of the earlier klampenborg housing. as such, we could name it a transitional work but only if the word transitional is not taken to mean something of lesser worth. the building is not well kept but the detailing including much of the glass is original. more arne jacobsen
rødovre town hall, 1952-1956. architect: arne jacobsen, 1902-1971. the double canopy of the main entrance is painted in two of jacobsen's characteristic colours. the painterly effects found in nearly all of jacobsen's buildings reflect on his early wish to become an artist. when you study his water colours - and jacobsen did all the office renderings himself in water colours - you realize that most of the shades he uses derive from a study of nature in denmark and sweden. more arne jacobsen
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