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Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller, internationally also known as C. F. Møller Architects, is an architectural firm based in
Århus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality, Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and app ...
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. Founded in 1924 by
C. F. Møller Christian Frederik Møller (31 October 1898 – 5 November 1988), generally referred to as C. F. Møller, was a Danish architect, professor and, from 1965 to 1969, the first rector of the Aarhus School of Architecture. His former practice, Arki ...
, it is today the largest architectural firm in Denmark based on number of employed architects. About half the revenue is earned outside Denmark. Besides the main office in Århus, the firm has offices in Copenhagen, Oslo, London and in 2007 it bought the Stockholm-based Swedish architectural practice Berg Arkitekter which is still operated under its own name. Current projects include the largest hospital project ever to be built in Denmark in Århus, an extension of the
National Maritime Museum The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. Like other publicly funded national museums in the Unite ...
in London and several highrise projects in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. C. F. Møller is also one of the 15 architecture practices that collaborated in the overall design of the
Olympic Village An Olympic Village is an accommodation center built for the Olympic Games, usually within an Olympic Park or elsewhere in a host city. Olympic Villages are built to house all participating athletes, as well as officials and athletic trainers. Afte ...
for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.


Selected works


Completed

* Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (first stage completed 1933) * National Gallery extension, Copenhagen, Denmark (completed 1998) * Field's Shopping Centre, Copenhagen (completed 2004) *
Bislett Stadium Bislett Stadium ( no, Bislett stadion) is a sports stadium in Oslo, Norway. Bislett is Norway's most well known sports arena internationally, with 15 speed skating world records and more than 50 track and field world records having been set here ...
, Oslo, Norway (completed 2005) * A. P. Møller School,
Schleswig The Duchy of Schleswig ( da, Hertugdømmet Slesvig; german: Herzogtum Schleswig; nds, Hartogdom Sleswig; frr, Härtochduum Slaswik) was a duchy in Southern Jutland () covering the area between about 60 km (35 miles) north and 70 km ...
(Danish: Slesvig), Germany (completed 2008) * Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, an extension to the Aarhus Concert Hall, DK (completed 2007) * Darwin Centre II,
Natural History Museum A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more. ...
, London, United Kingdom (completed 2008) * New Ahus, Akershus University Hospital,
Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...
, Norway (completed 2008) *
Copenhagen International School Copenhagen International School (CIS) is an international, co-educational day school located in the Copenhagen metropolitan area, Denmark. It has around 930 students of over 80 nationalities. English is the primary language of instruction. CIS off ...
, Copenhagen, Denmark (completed 2016) * Vitus Bering Innovation Park,
Horsens Horsens () is a city on the east coast of Jutland region of Denmark. It is the seat of the Horsens municipality. The city's population is 61,074 (1 January 2022) and the municipality's population is 94,443 (), making it the 8th largest city in De ...
, Denmark (2009) * Emergency and infectious diseases unit, MAS University Hospital,
Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal pop ...
(2010) *
Queen Ingrid's Hospital Queen Ingrid's Hospital ( kl, Dronning Ingridip Napparsimmavissua) is a hospital in Nuuk, Greenland. The hospital not only serves as the main hospital for the municipality but is the central hospital in all of Greenland. The hospital has 185 beds ...
extension,
Nuuk Nuuk (; da, Nuuk, formerly ) is the capital and largest city of Greenland, a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark. Nuuk is the seat of government and the country's largest cultural and economic centre. The major cities from other coun ...
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Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...
(2011) * Sogn & Fjordane Art Museum, Fjorde, Norway (2012) * Sammy Ofer wing,
National Maritime Museum The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. Like other publicly funded national museums in the Unite ...
, London, United Kingdom (2009–2011) File:Aarhus university - fisker, møller, stegmann, sørensen 1931.jpg, Aarhus University, The Bartholin Building (1971–74) File:Ravnsbjergkirken (forplads og indgang).jpg, Ravnsbjerg Church (1976), Aarhus File:Hedeselskabet 2.JPG, Hedeselskabet headquarters (1980), Viborg File:Søauditorierne (forplads).jpg, Søauditorierne (2001), part of the Aarhus University Campus File:Swedbank stadion 29 june 2009.jpg,
Swedbank Stadion Swedbank AB () is a Nordic-Baltic banking group based in Stockholm, Sweden, offering retail banking, asset management, financial, and other services. In 2019 Swedbank had 900,000 private and 130,000 corporate clients and a 60% market share of ...
(2009), Malmö Sweden File:Siloetten.jpg, Siloetten apartment block (2010), Aarhus File:Akuten i Malmö–flygbild 06 september 2014.jpg, Emergency and infectious diseases unit, MAS University Hospital (2011), Malmö File:Bestseller cropped.jpg, Bestseller headquarters (2015), Aarhus File:Greenwich CHP energy centre.jpg, Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre (2017), London


In progress

* Point Hylie, Malmö, Sweden (competition win 2006, U/C, completion 2011) * Aarhus University Hospital extension, Århus, DK (competition win 2007) * Plot MO116,
Greenwich Greenwich ( , ,) is a town in south-east London, England, within the ceremonial county of Greater London. It is situated east-southeast of Charing Cross. Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich ...
, UK (competition win 2007)
Art museum and offices
Førde Førde is a former municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It was located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative center was the town of Førde which in 2016 had 10,255 inhabitants. Other villages in Førd ...
, Norway (competition win) * Alvik Tower, Stockholm, Sweden (competition win 2009) * National Diabetes Centre, King Khalid University Hospital,
Riyadh Riyadh (, ar, الرياض, 'ar-Riyāḍ, lit.: 'The Gardens' Najdi pronunciation: ), formerly known as Hajr al-Yamamah, is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of th ...
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Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
(commission 2009) * Crystal Clear highrise, Oslo, Norway (competition win 2009) * Kristiansund Opera and Culture Center,
Kristiansund Kristiansund (, ; historically spelled Christianssund and earlier named Fosna) is a municipality on the western coast of Norway in the Nordmøre district of Møre og Romsdal county. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of ...
, Norway (competition win 2010) * Panum Institute extension,
University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia after Uppsala Unive ...
, Copenhagen (competition win 2010) * New state prison, Falster, Denmark (competition win 2919) * Greenwich CHP energy centre, London (due for completion in 2016).


Awards

* 2006
Nykredit Architecture Prize The Nykredit Architecture Prize is the largest Danish architecture prize. Founded by the Nykredit Foundation (an arm of the Nykredit Group), it is awarded annually to a person, or group of people, who have personally, or through their work, made a ...
* 2009 Building Better Healthcare Award for ''Akershus Hospital'', London * 2009
Concrete Society The Concrete Society is a UK based non-profit company that was founded in 1966 in response to the increasing need for a single organisation embracing all those interested in concrete. On its formal inauguration, on 13 October 1966, the Society to ...
Awards for Excellence - Overall Winner for ''Darwin Centre Phase Two'', London * 2010 RIBA European Award for ''A. P. Møller School'' * 2010 Worldwide Brick Award for ''A. P. Møller School'', London * 2010 WAN Award for ''The Sil(o)houette'' (residential category) * 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 ''Darwin Centre Phase Two'' * 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 ''Hospice Djursland'' * 2014 Civic Trust Awards for ''Aalborg Waterfront


See also

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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


External links


Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:C. F. Moller Architects Architecture firms of Denmark Companies based in Aarhus Danish companies established in 1922 Design companies established in 1924