CEBRA is a Danish architectural office founded in 2001 by the architects Mikkel Frost, Carsten Primdahl and Kolja Nielsen.
Based in
Aarhus
Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...
in Denmark and in
Abu Dhabi
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in the UAE, CEBRA employs a multidisciplinary international staff of 50.
In February 2017 the CEBRA-designed Experimentarium was inaugurated, a science center in Hellerup, near Copenhagen. In 2013 The Iceberg, a multiple prize-winning housing project, was built in the revitalized harbour area in Aarhus, Denmark.
One of the founding partners, Mikkel Frost, often paints in watercolours cartoonish concepts of some of CEBRA's projects and the whole collection is name
"Toons" In autumn 2016 two of these watercolours have been acquired by the
Museum for Architectural Drawing
The Museum for Architectural Drawing (german: Museum für Architekturzeichnung) is a private museum in Berlin, Germany run by the Tchoban Foundation. It was opened in June 2013. Three to four exhibitions are shown each year, made up of drawings fr ...
in Berlin, Germany. They are now part of the collection among works by
Zaha Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid ( ar, زها حديد ''Zahā Ḥadīd''; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of the late 20th and early 21st centu ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi (3 May 1931 – 4 September 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading exponen ...
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Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry, , FAIA (; ; born ) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become world-renowned attractions.
His works are considered ...
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Most of CEBRA's projects are within the fields of education, culture and housing.
Selected awards
CEBRA has received a number of prestigious international awards. Among them:
* 2015 – ArchDaily Building of the Year 2015, best housing project for the Iceberg
* 2015 – The Children's Home of the Future is on the top 40 shortlist for the Mies van der Rohe Award
* 2013 –
MIPIM
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Award 2013, best residential development for the Iceberg
* 2013 – Architizer A+ Award, best residential mid-rise for the Iceberg
* 2008 – CEBRA receives the Nykredit's Architecture Award, Scandinavia's most prestigious architecture award
* 2006 – Golden Lion Award at the
Venice Biennale for Architecture for Best National Pavilion
* 2006 – The Bakkegaard School is nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award
Selected projects
Experimentarium, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Iceberg, Aarhus, Denmark
Sustainable School, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Smart School, Irkutsk, Russia
HF & VUC Fyn, Odense, Denmark
Children’s Home of the Future, Kerteminde, Denmark
StreetDome, Haderslev, Denmark
Mesterfjellet School, Larvik, Norway
Center for Early Childhood Development, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
References
External links
* Homepage: http://cebraarchitecture.dk/
* http://cebratoons.blogspot.dk/
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Architecture firms of Denmark
Danish companies established in 2001
Design companies established in 2001
Companies based in Aarhus