The Crystal | Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Copenhagen / Denmark / 2010
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Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Principal Architect
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Morten Schmidt
Founder
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Bjarne Hammer
Founder
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John Lassen
Founder
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Kim Holst Jensen
Partner
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Kristian Lars Ahlmark
Partner
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SLA
Landscape Architect
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Signe Hertzum
Landscape Architect
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Malin Blomquist
Landscape Architect
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Alectia
Consultant
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Grontmij I Carl Bro A/S
Structural Consultant
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Buro Happold
Structural Consultant
The extension to Nykredit consists of a new building – the Crystal – sited northwest of the existing Nykredit premises. Freestanding on the site, it reads as a transparent, geometrical, glazed form which, resting only on a single point and a single line, floats as a visually light, crystalline structure above the plaza. In terms of both form and scale, the building is intermediate between the city and the harbour, and harmonises with neighbouring buildings. On the southern side it rises with...
- Year 2010
- Work finished in 2010
- Main structure Mixed structure
- Client Nykredit
- Status Completed works
- Type Office Buildings
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