The BLOX building cost a fortune, and its architectural intent is hard to make sense of. Eight years on, the Danish Architecture Center offers an explanation.

Standing here, I can’t help thinking: We should never build like this again

This north-facing facade is BLOX’s best. Here, the building actually conveys its mixed-use concept, which gets lost on the other, more truncated facades. Foto: Rasmus Hjortshøj
This north-facing facade is BLOX’s best. Here, the building actually conveys its mixed-use concept, which gets lost on the other, more truncated facades. Foto: Rasmus Hjortshøj
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Realdania erhvervede Bryghusgrunden og valgte en interviewkonkurrence. Man måtte ikke aflevere tegninger, for arkitekten skulle være med til at udvikle programmet.

Her var den hollandske arkitekt Rem Koolhaas med længder den bedst forberedte. Tilbage i 1978 skrev han i bogen ’Delirious New York’, hvordan der udfolder sig et helt bysamfund inde i New Yorks skyskrabere. Fornemmelsen af urban smeltedigel har han siden forsøgt at genskabe i projekter over hele verden.

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