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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 exhibition- and workshopspaces, where the roofs are lower, and yet characteristic.
The auditorium, the “head” of the building complex, is placed right at the harbourfront.
The boathall is placed further along the harborfront and the mainentrance is situated between the two buildings. The library is the tail of the building complex, and turns against the park and also the centre of Aalborg city.
In that way the building complex responds to the varied nature of the site, from the windy and vast harbour front to the more intimate and blooming park next to the city centre of Aalborg.
Auditorium Photo : Rasmus Baaner, Denmark
Location: Aalborg, northern Jutland, western Denmark, Northern Europe
Architects Exhibition at Utzon Center in Aalborg – 2018-19 by RRA
Architecture in Aalborg
Photos from 10 Oct 2021:
Budolfi Kirke, Restored Gothic cathedral with a 208-ft. spire, stained-glass windows, a rococo organ & murals:
Aalborg Kloster, 15th-century Catholic monastery with 27 retirement homes & a restored church:
Aalborghus Castle, 16th-century riverside fortress with tunnels, a dungeon & parkland surrounds open to the public:
Museum building west of the Budolfi Kirke:
old bank building:
Pleasant Modern architecture in the city centre, immediately north of the cathedral, onto the Gammeltorv:
historic building turret dome facing the cloister:
Architecture in Denmark
Danish Architecture Designs – chronological list
Denmark Architecture – Selection:
New office building for Nordea Bank – Shortlisted at World Architecture Festival 2018 Awards
Design: Henning Larsen Architects + Signal Architects + SLA Landscape Architects
image © Henning Larsen Architects
Nordea Bank Ørestad North Office on World Architecture Festival Awards 2018 Shortlist
Henning Larsen Architects and a team consisting of Signal Architects and SLA Landscape Architects have won the competition for Nordea Bank’s new office building of 40,000 m2 in Ørestad North, Copenhagen, next to the premises of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation and the Concert Hall – Koncerthuset. The building will comprise Scandinavia’s largest trading floor of 5,500 m2 with a view of the green area of Amager Fælled.
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Design: NORD Architects
Danfoss Universe, Als, southern Jutland
Design: J. MAYER H.
Aarhus Concert Hall, Aarhus, eastern Jutland
Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller
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