Henning Larsen Architects
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Founded | 1959 |
Location | Copenhagen |
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Awards | 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture |
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Henning Larsen Architects is an international architectural firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1959 by Henning Larsen, it has around 750 employees.[citation needed]
In 2008, it opened an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and in 2011, an office in Munich, Germany were inaugurated. The company also have offices in New York USA, Oslo, Norway, in the Faroe Islands, and in Hong Kong, China.[1]
It is known for its cultural and educational projects. Among them Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavík that was selected as one of the ten best concert halls in the world by the British magazine Gramophone[2] and won the Mies van der Rohe Award 2013, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.[3] It also designed the Copenhagen Opera.[citation needed]
It is part of the Ramboll Group.[citation needed]
Research and sustainability
[edit]The practice has employed PhD students from the Technical University of Denmark, who work with different projects related to sustainable design. The aim of the collaboration is to implement sustainability in the building design and building components at the very beginning of each project.[4]
Awards
[edit]- 1989 Aga Khan Award for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riyadh[5]
- 2008 RIBA Award for Roland Levinsky Building[6]
- 2010 LEAF Award for The Wave (residential category)[7]
- 2010 IDA International Design Award (Architectural Design of the Year category) for Batumi Aquarium[8]
- 2011 Civic Trust Award for The Wave[9]
- 2012 Civic Trust Award for Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre[10]
- 2013 Civic Trust Award for Umea Arts Campus[11]
- 2013 Architizer A+ Award (+Light category) for Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre[12]
- 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture for Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre[13]
- 2013 Emirates Glass Leaf Award for Harpa – Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre (Best Public Building - Culture)[14]
- 2013 Emirates Glass Leaf Award for Campus Roskilde (Best Public Building - Education & Research)[14]
- 2014 Civic Trust Award for Campus Roskilde[15]
- 2015 Civic Trust Award for Mosgaard Museum[16]
- 2015 The International Architecture Award (The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design) for Moesgaard Museum [17]
- 2015 LEAF Award in the category Urban Design for Vinge Train Station [18]
- 2016 Green Good Design Award (The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies) for SDU Campus Kolding [19]
- 2016 LEAF Future Building Awards in the category Under Construction for Kiruna City Hall [20]
Exhibitions
[edit]- 1999 "The Architect's Studio" at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark[21]
- 2011 "what if...?" at Utzon Center, Aalborg, Denmark.[22] The exhibition has also been displayed in Umeå, Munich and at Danish Architecture Centre as a part of the exhibition "In Dialogue with the World". Archived from the original on 2013-12-24. Retrieved 2013-05-06.[23]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Organisation : Henning Larsen Architects". Henninglarsen.com. 2011-11-11. Archived from the original on 2012-06-08. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ^ Gramophone Magazine. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
- ^ "Mies van der Rohe Award 2013 winner: Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik". Dezeen. 2013-04-29. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
- ^ "Industrial PhDs build bridges between theory and practice". Technical University of Denmark. Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
- ^ "Aga Khan Award for Architecture". Aga Khan Development Network. Archived from the original on 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2009-09-23.
- ^ "RIBA Announces 2008 Award Winners". Bustler. Retrieved 2011-01-09.
- ^ "Winners of the Emirates Glass LEAF Awards 2010". Bustler. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
- ^ "Announcement of the 2010 International Design Awards Winners". SBWire. 2011-05-10. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
- ^ "2011 Award Winners Announced". Civic Trust. Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
- ^ "2012 Civic Trust Awards Shortlist of Winners Announced". Civic Trust Awards. Archived from the original on 2012-03-04. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
- ^ "Arts Campus at Umeå University". Civic Trust Awards. Archived from the original on 2013-03-16. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
- ^ "Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre win Architecture +Light Awards at Architizer A+ Awards 2013". Architizer. Retrieved 2013-06-05.
- ^ "Harpa Concert Hall wins the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2013". ArchDaily. 2013-04-29. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ a b "2013 LEAF Award Winners Announced". ArchDaily. 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2014-06-21.
- ^ "Civic Trust Award winners revealed". AJ. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- ^ "Winners in Denmark". Civix Trust Awards (in Danish). Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "The Chicago Athenaeum".
- ^ "Urban Design of the Year: Vinge Train Station". Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
- ^ "The Chicago Athenaeum awards SDU Campus Kolding". Archived from the original on 2017-02-03. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
- ^ "Kiruna City Hall Honored at the 2016 LEAF Awards". Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
- ^ "Exhibitions 1958-2008". Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
- ^ ""what if...?" Henning Larsen Architects". Utzon Center. Archived from the original on 2013-02-13. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
- ^ "In Dialogue with the World". Danish Architecture Centre. Archived from the original on 2013-12-24. Retrieved 2013-01-11.