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Setting the stage

Part of the city’s scenery in more ways than one, Vega has risen from its socialist roots to provide the perfect home for all kinds of music.

  • Issue #160
  • 4 min read
Interior view of Vega concert hall during performance showing packed audience, multi-level seating, and stage lighting
Architecture

Brick’s blessing

At this huge ecclesiastical spectacle, it’s small details that count: its five million bricks were sanded by hand.writer

  • Issue #160
  • 2 min read
Interior view of Grundtvig's Church showing soaring yellow brick nave with wooden chairs and Gothic arches
Architecture

The right move

A smart HQ can make all the difference to productivity and morale but also to a company's confidence in its output. Here we survey three media businesses that have recently invested in new homes.

  • Issue #156
  • 17 min read
Aerial view of curved meeting table with people working, surrounded by additional seating areas in modern office space
Hospitality

Room for all

The Danish capital’s latest hotel venture pays homage to its past life as the city’s central post office. It gets our stamp of approval.

  • Issue #136
  • 1 min read
Room for all
Design

Design Briefing

A round-up of the industry headlines, from the Danish architects reimagining the concept of play to the best furniture releases you might have missed this summer.

  • Issue #136
  • 7 min read
Design Briefing
Residences

Labour of love

Once an outlier for the wrong reasons, this home takes pride of place on a leafy street thanks to a couple’s tasteful renovation.

  • Issue #128
  • 6 min read
Labour of love
Design

Architecture

Denmark’s longest timber building has been rebuilt and the Pavilion Le Corbusier reopens.

  • Issue #125
  • 6 min read
Architecture
Residences

Cabinet of wonders

Poul Kjaerholm was one of the greats of Danish design. Here we visit his former home – a testing ground for many of his best-loved classics.

  • Issue #116
  • 7 min read
Japanese-inspired house entrance with natural wooden door and glazed panels flanked by untreated timber walls.

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