Henning Larsen Architects is an international
architectural firm
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based in
Copenhagen
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Denmark
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. Founded in 1959 by
Henning Larsen
Henning Larsen, Hon. FAIA (20 August 1925 – 22 June 2013) was a Danish architect. He is internationally known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadh and the Copenhagen Opera House.
Larsen studied at the Royal Danish Academy ...
, it has around 750 employees.
In 2008, it opened an office in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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and in 2011, an office in
Munich, Germany
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were inaugurated. The company also have offices in
New York USA,
Oslo, Norway
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, in the
Faroe Islands
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They are located north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway bet ...
, and in
Hong Kong, China
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.
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 and won the
Mies van der Rohe Award 2013, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. It also designed the
Copenhagen Opera.
It is part of the
Ramboll Group.
Research and sustainability
The practice has employed PhD students from the
Technical University of Denmark
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, who work with different projects related to
sustainable design
Environmentally sustainable design (also called environmentally conscious design, eco-design, etc.) is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of ecological sustainability ...
. The aim of the collaboration is to implement sustainability in the building design and building components at the very beginning of each project.
Awards
*
1989 Aga Khan Award for the ''Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riyadh''
* 2008 RIBA Award for ''Roland Levinsky Building''
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2010 LEAF Award for ''The Wave'' (residential category)
* 2010 IDA International Design Award (''Architectural Design of the Year'' category) for ''Batumi Aquarium''
* 2011
Civic Trust Award
The Civic Trust Awards scheme was established in 1959 to recognise outstanding architecture, planning and design in the built environment.
As the longest standing built environment awards scheme in Europe, since 1959, more than 7000 projects have ...
for ''The Wave''
* 2012
Civic Trust Award
The Civic Trust Awards scheme was established in 1959 to recognise outstanding architecture, planning and design in the built environment.
As the longest standing built environment awards scheme in Europe, since 1959, more than 7000 projects have ...
for ''
Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre''
* 2013
Civic Trust Award
The Civic Trust Awards scheme was established in 1959 to recognise outstanding architecture, planning and design in the built environment.
As the longest standing built environment awards scheme in Europe, since 1959, more than 7000 projects have ...
for ''
Umea Arts Campus
* 2013
Architizer A+ Award (+Light category) for ''
Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre''
* 2013
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award is a prize given biennially by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, 'to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Eu ...
for ''
Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre''
*
2013 Emirates Glass Leaf Award for ''
Harpa – Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre'' (Best Public Building - Culture)
*
2013 Emirates Glass Leaf Award for ''Campus Roskilde'' (Best Public Building - Education & Research)
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* 2014 ]Civic Trust Award
The Civic Trust Awards scheme was established in 1959 to recognise outstanding architecture, planning and design in the built environment.
As the longest standing built environment awards scheme in Europe, since 1959, more than 7000 projects have ...
for ''Campus Roskilde''
* 2015 Civic Trust Award
The Civic Trust Awards scheme was established in 1959 to recognise outstanding architecture, planning and design in the built environment.
As the longest standing built environment awards scheme in Europe, since 1959, more than 7000 projects have ...
for '' Mosgaard Museum''
*2015 The International Architecture Award (The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design) for ''Moesgaard Museum
Moesgaard Museum (MOMU) is a Danish regional museum dedicated to archaeology and ethnography. It is located in Beder, a suburb of Aarhus, Denmark.
MOMU cooperates with the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Medieval and Renaissance Archaeolo ...
''
*2015 LEAF Award
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The LEAF Awards program is operated by ...
in the category Urban Design for ''Vinge Train Station''
*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''
*2016 LEAF Future Building Awards in the category Under Construction for ''Kiruna City Hall''
Exhibitions
* 1999 "The Architect's Studio" at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located on the shore of the Øresund Sound in Humlebæk, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the most visited art museum in Denmark, and has an extensive permanent collection of modern and cont ...
, Humlebaek, Denmark
* 2011 "what if...?" at Utzon Center
The Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark, was the last building to be designed by Jørn Utzon, the architect behind the Sydney Opera House. In collaboration with his son Kim, who provided the final construction drawings, he planned the centre not as ...
, Aalborg, Denmark. The exhibition has also been displayed in Umeå, Munich and at Danish Architecture Centre
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DAC’s objective and legitimacy consist in ...
as a part of the exhibition
See also
* Architecture of Denmark
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...
* List of Danish architectural firms
References
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Architecture firms of Denmark
Architecture firms based in Copenhagen
Companies based in Copenhagen Municipality
Danish companies established in 1959
Design companies established in 1959
1959 establishments in Denmark