SHARE A BRAINWAVE

Another piece of wavy architecture - literally placed ON the waves, shaped in wavy patterns and created for the “masses” to enjoy the waves - the magnificent Kastrup Seawater Lido is well worth a visit when in Copenhagen.
It’s very close to the Copenhagen Airpost, so the next time your plane is severely delayed you may […]

Speaking of museums with great architecture and  a wavy twist…
Yesterday I went to Louisiana - the museum of modern art spectacularly draped on the coastline north of Copenhagen. They featured a great new exhibition called ‘Frontiers of Architecture 1′.
The exhibition left no doubt, that there’s definately a new wave of wavy architecture on the roll…the […]

This summer I visited the Guggenheim Bilbao. Outside the museum is another wavy structure: a fog sculpture by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya. The sculpture is a kind of wavy vent from which steam comes up and creates a foggy mist - on an otherwise sunny day. Very appealing to children and childish adults.
The artist herself […]

The Great Wall of China was recently voted THE new wonder of the world. Before I visited the Great Wall the first time I thought - for some reason - that it ran through a flat grassy wave. But it turned out to be winding through beautiful mountains. The landscape and the winding changes dramatically […]

A touch of fibonacci while descending and ascending the waves above… 

Yet another piece of wavy architecture: This building near my home has one of the most exclusive adresses i Copenhagen - overlooking the lakes of the old moat.

I really like the fact, that it’s a rest home for old people. Old people who grew up in the neightbourhood when it was still a rundown-working-class-hood and […]

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Check out this funky building soon to be completed in the Danish town Vejle - created by Henning Larsen architecs.
More pictures and info on boelgenvejle.dk

Wavy architecture seems to be a new wave on the roll…

The Elbphilharmonie - the new concerthall in Hamburg - definately encourages the audience to share a brainwave or two while listening to the music. The new glassroof on top of the old cocoa-and-coffee-warehouse in the harbour definately has a wavy look.
Created by architecs Herzog and de Meuron - planned to open 2010.

A new wave of ‘republican architecture’ has hit Denmark.
‘The association for a crown-free-democracy’ has been lobbying for several years to be allowed to rebuilt, remodel og redecorate several of Copenhagen’s landmarks. The idea is that all royal details and symbols on the buildings associated with democracy should be replaced by more suiting symbols. The key […]

Yesterday the sun was shining bright and it was a blessing that my job for the day was to go to ‘Louisiana - Museum of Modern Art’ to interview the director.
The setting of the museum is spectacular - right on the seaside, overlooking the waves and the Swedish coast. A ‘daylight museum’ where the art, […]

The self-declared micronation Sealand is for sale (or rather: “available for transfer” - as countries cannot be “sold”!), so if you’ve got the funds, you can own your own haven in the waves. You will be close to European metropolitan areas, yet all by yourself in the wild and rugged sea, outside British jurisdiction.

Sealand was built […]

I recently visited the new museum of urban planning i Beijing.
It is a highly recommendable sight for anyone remotely interested in city planning and architecture.
They have great models showing the ambitious plans for the city’s rapid growth in for the coming years, a great section on the environmental intiatives that are to make the highly […]