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Schmidt Hammer Lassen to Develop New Urban District at Former Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen

May 18, 2017 Patrick Lynch 0

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, in collaboration with Holscher Nordberg Architects, has been selected to lead a 120,000-square-foot (36,000-square-meter) redevelopment of the new Carlsberg City district in Copenhagen. Located on the former site of the famous Carlsberg Brewery, the project will incorporate the area’s historic industrial elements in creating a new sustainable city district with inviting open spaces, public transportation, and a series of context-sensitive new buildings, including a 262-foot-tall (80-meter-tall) residential tower.

Luxury hotel opens inside Thomas Heatherwick’s converted grain silo in Cape Town

May 18, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

The first part of Thomas Heatherwick’s renovation of a former grain silo building in Cape Town’s harbour has been completed, with the opening of a hotel featuring bulging windows. Heatherwick Studio is overseeing the conversion of the building, in which the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) will open later this year. Occupying six floors above the

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