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Henning Larsen Architects

Henning Larsen Architects

Design and architecture firm

Henning Larsen Architects is an international architectural firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1959 by Henning Larsen, it has around 750 employees.[citation needed]

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In 2008, it opened an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and in 2011, an office in Munich, Germany were inaugurated. The company also have offices in New York USA, Oslo, Norway, in the Faroe Islands, and in Hong Kong, China.[1]

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[2] and won the Mies van der Rohe Award 2013, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.[3] It also designed the Copenhagen Opera.[citation needed]

It is part of the Ramboll Group.[citation needed]

Research and sustainability

The practice has employed PhD students from the Technical University of Denmark, who work with different projects related to sustainable design. The aim of the collaboration is to implement sustainability in the building design and building components at the very beginning of each project.[4]

Spiegel House, Hamburg, Germany
The Wave in Vejle, Vejle, Denmark
Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Copenhagen Opera House, Copenhagen, Denmark
IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Denmark
Uppsala Concert Hall, Uppsala, Sweden

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 1999 "The Architect's Studio" at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark[21]
  • 2011 "what if...?" at Utzon Center, Aalborg, Denmark.[22] The exhibition has also been displayed in Umeå, Munich and at Danish Architecture Centre as a part of the exhibition "In Dialogue with the World". Archived from the original on 2013-12-24. Retrieved 2013-05-06.[23]

See also

References

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