#danish architect

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Georg Jacobsen (Sept. 17, 1887 - 1976) was a Danish painter and art theorist. Jacobsen trained at the Danish Royal Academy, both as an architect and as a painter. He then moved to Paris where he met Diego Rivera and hung out with the Norwegian ex-pat artists. He later became a professor at the Norwegian Academy in Oslo, before returning to Denmark in 1940.

His art was Cubist inspired at first, but after meeting Rivera he became more of a magical realist, as witnessed by this striking still life from Trondheim Kunstmuseum:

The Hare, 1922 - oil on canvas

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Finn Juhl

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Arne Jacobsen / Rothenborg House Klampenborg, Denmark - 1931; image © Richard Powers.

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Peder Severin Krøyer (1851 – 1909) - Portrait of the architect Ferdinand Meldahl, 1882, oil on canvas

Ferdinand Meldahl (1827 – 1908) was a Danish architect and art enthusiast. As a youth, he worked in his father's iron foundry (1840) His introduction to construction came as a bricklayer's boy (1841). Meldahl was educated as an architect at the Copenhagen Art Academy.

In 1857, he became a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and in 1863 a professor for architecture at the academy. He held the position of director from 1873 to 1890. Meldhal was a member of the municipal council of Copenhagen Municipality for 27 years from 1866 and was a great influence on the capital city during this time.

Meldhal's architectural accomplishments included: the reconstruction of Frederiksborg Castle after the fire in 1859; Town Halls at Ålborg (1857–61) and Fredericia (1859–60); the Royal Mint (1872–3); completion of Frederiks Church in Copenhagen 1878-94; completion of the Triumphant (1878–94); expanding Charlottenlund Palace (1880-1881).

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In 2003 Jørn Utzon, a Danish architect, won the Pritzker, one of most important prize in architecture that each year is given to honor a living architect for his built work.

This is my wooden interpretation of the  Sydney Opera House

Video by Andrea Stinga

Photos by @sydneyoperahouse

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On this day, 2nd March 1959, Stage One of the building of the Sydney Opera House commenced.

The Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, was built on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour.

Designed by Danish architect Joern Utzon in 1955, after winning an international competition, it has become one of the most famous performing arts venues in the world. 

Utzon arrived in Sydney to oversee the project in 1957 and work commenced on the Opera House in 1959. The ceremony marking Stage One of the Sydney Opera House was held on 2 March 1959. The Premier of New South Wales, Hon J J Cahill, laid a bronze plaque at the site marking what would be the first step of the podium, and declared the project underway.

 The Sydney Opera House was built in three stages: stage I (1959–1963) consisted of building the upper podium; stage II (1963–1967) the construction of the outer shells; stage III (1967–1973) interior design and construction.

Copies of the printed program for the ceremony known as the Gold Book, are held in the State Library of NSW. The booklet includes comments by many of those who had in some part made the Opera House a reality. Sydney Opera House would in the words of J J  Cahill, "Stand not merely as an outstanding example of modern architecture, or even as a world famous opera house, but as a shrine in which the great artists of the world...may display the flowering of Australian culture."

The sydney Opera House was completed in 1973, at a cost of $102 million. It was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 20 October 1973.

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Danish landscape architect C. Th. Sørensen (July 24, 1893 - 1979) was renowned internationally for his parks and garden designs. Here is one of his most original ideas - the Oval Gardens in Nærum, near Copenhagen (1948-52).

Sørensen’s idea was simply that:

"Neighbors are always quarreling about the shared hedge between their houses. How to cut it? How tall should it be? Here they each get a complete hedge of their own with a no-man’s-land between them, Then they don’t have to quarrel anymore!”

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Danish Historicist architect Vilhelm Dahlerup (August 4, 1836 – 1907) was the most prominent of his day, and put his mark on Copenhagen with a number of iconic buildings, most of which are preserved to this day. That includes The Royal Theater building, the Pantomime Theater in Tivoli, and the original museum building for Statens Museum for Kunst.

Today we focus on what many consider the most aesthetically impressive factory buildings in Denmark, the old Carlsberg Brewery, which has this Elephant Gate (1892) as its main entry point, with a dipylonic construction at the other end of the court. Carlsberg’s motto - “Laboremus pro Patria” is embossed above the twin pachyderms.