Lyngby Town Hall Denmark, Jensen, Langkilde, Architect, Photo, Danish 20th C Building Design
Lyngby Town Hall – Modern Danish building
Sjælland Architecture : 20th Century Danish Building design by Jensen & Langkilde Architects
8 May 2010
Lyngby Town Hall
Location: Lyngby, north Copenhagen, Denmark
Date built: 1942
Design: Ib Martin Jensen and Hans Erling Langkilde
photograph © Adrian Welch
Lyngby Town Hall
Lyngby Town Hall (1939-42) was designed by two Danish architects Ib Martin Jensen (1906-79) and Hans Erling Langkilde (1906-97).
photograph © Adrian Welch
This characteristic concave building is five stories tall and covered in green marble. When you walk all the way to the top of this Modern building, windows in the public areas allow you to view across all of Lyngby’s rooftops and surrounding area.
Building images © Adrian Welch / Isabelle Lomholt, May 2010
photographs © Adrian Welch
The interior of the building is beautifully detailed with a large sweeping staircase as focal point at the back of the wide entrance hall. The floors above are equally generous with the public space. Flooded in natural light from both sides of the building and offering comfortable seating areas on all floors.
Lyngby – Taarnbæk council were looking into the future when they commissioned this town hall. Lyngby ’s population was only 30,000, but the new building would be big enough to admister a population of 55,000. Even so the council today have several departments all over town.
Ib Martin Jensen and Hans Erling Langkilde practised together from 1938 to 1972. Some of the buildings designed by the two include Skovgårds School in Gentofte(1949-51), Elverhøjens School in Herlev (1954) and other banks and institutions.
photographs © Adrian Welch
Arne Jacobsen Architect
Location: Kongens Lyngby, northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark, northern Europe
Lyngby Buildings
Contemporary Architecture in Lyngby – selection:
DTU Bioengineering
Design: Mikkelsen Architects
photo : Hampus Berndtson
DTU 225 Bioengineering Building
Microsoft Office in Lyngby, Denmark
Design: Henning Larsen Architects
photo : Hufton+Crow
Microsoft Office in Lyngby
Copenhagen Architecture
Contemporary Architecture in the Denmark – architectural selection below:
Danish Architecture Designs – chronological list
Toender Town Hall, Denmark
Toender City Hall Extension, Denmark
image from architects
Key Danish Building
Bagsvaerd Church by Jorn Utzon, north Copenhagen, Denmark
Denmark Architecture – Selection:
Cold War Museum at Nordjyllands Historiske Museum, Røde Møllevej 22, Skørping, Rold Forest, Jutland
Design: AART architects with SLA, Niras and Thøgersen & Stouby
image courtesy of architects office
The Danish Cold War Museum in Rold Forest, Jutland
The New LEGO Group Campus, Billund, Jutland
Design: C.F. Møller Architects
photograph © 2019 Adam Mørk
The New LEGO Group Campus in Billund
ARCTIC Hundested Harbour Cultural Attraction, Region Hovedstaden, Northern Sjælland
Design: CEBRA architecture, Architects
image Courtesy architecture office
ARCTIC Hundested Harbour Cultural Attraction
The Culture Yard – Kulturværftet, Helsingør
Design: aart architects
photo © Adrian Welch
Culture Yard Elsinore Building
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