Henning Larsen Architects

Henning Larsen Architects is an international architecture firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1959 by noted Danish architect and namesake Henning Larsen, it has around 200 employees. In 2011 the company worked on projects in more than 20 countries.

In 2008 Henning Larsen Architects opened an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia named Henning Larsen Middle East and in 2011 an office in Munich, Germany were inaugurated. Most recently Henning Larsen Architects opened two offices. One in Oslo, Norway and one in Istanbul, Turkey.^[1]

Henning Larsen Architects is known for their cultural and educational projects. Last year Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavík was selected as one of the ten best concert halls in the world by the British magazine Gramophone.^[2][3] Henning Larsen Architects also designed the Copenhagen Opera.

Current projects include a new Headquarters for Siemens in Munich, Germany and a 1.6 mill m² masterplan for the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,.^[4]

History

After having worked both for Arne Jacobsen (1952–53) and Jørn Utzon (1958), Henning Larsen founded Henning Larsens Tegnestue in 1959. With firm roots in Scandinavian design tradition, the office grew to one of the largest in Denmark. The first major project outside Scandinavia was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riyadh, establishing the firm's international reputation. In the 1980s Henning Larsen initiated the architectural journal SKALA and an architectural gallery of the same name. As a professor in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Henning Larsen had the opportunity to invite great, international architects, who were interviewed in SKALA, to give lectures in the academy. This came to have a great influence on the new generation of Danish architects who acquired a much greater international vision than previously. The journal existed for 10 years.^[5]

Ownership and management

Today Henning Larsen Architects is owned by a group of partners. The partner group consists of Henning Larsen, Mette Kynne Frandsen, Louis Becker, Peer Teglgaard Jeppesen, Jacob Kurek and Lars Steffensen. There is also a group of associate partners. They hold shares of a minor part of the company. The associates are Anne Marie Galmstrup, Ósbjørn Jacobsen, Signe Kongebro, Ingela Larsson, Anders Sælan and Søren Øllgaard.^[1]

The management of Henning Larsen Architects consists of Mette Kynne Frandsen (CEO), Louis Becker (International Design Director) and Peer Teglgaard Jeppesen (Scandinavian Design Director).^[6]

Research and sustainability

Henning Larsen Architects has its own Department of Research and Sustainability run by associate partner Signe Kongebro. The department takes actively part in climate and sustainability discussions and develops different design tools based on the newest knowledge in the field.^[7]

The past four years three PhD-students from the Technical University of Denmark, Department of Civil Engineering, have been working on different projects related to sustainable design at Henning Larsen Architects. The aim of the collaboration was to develop a future design method implementing sustainability in buildings and building components at the very beginning of each project.^[8]

Selected projects

Completed

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

• Danish Embassy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1979)
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1984)
• Central Library, Gentofte, Denmark (1984–85)
• Dragvoll University Centre, Trondheim Norway (1986–89)
• Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark (1987)
• Nation Centre, Nairobi, Kenya (completed 1992)
• Danish Design Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Møller Centre for Continuing Education, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK (1992)
• Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek French Wing, Copenhagen, Denmark (1997)
• Nordea Headquarters, Copenhagen, Denmark (1999)
• Malmö City Library extension, Malmö, Sweden (1999)
• Radium Hospital extension, Oslo, Norway (2000)^[9]
• Ferring International Centre, Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark (2001)
• IT University of Copenhagen, Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark (2004)
• Copenhagen Opera House, Copenhagen, Denmark (2004)
• Uppsala Concert & Congress Hall, Uppsala, Sweden (2007)
• Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, Dublin, Ireland (2007)
• Jåttå Vocational School, Stavanger, Norway (2009)^[10]
• The Wave in Vejle, Vejle, Denmark (2009)
• Neroport, Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark (2010)
• Scandinavian Golf Club, Farum, Denmark (2010)
• Umeå School of Architecture, Umeå, Sweden (2010)
• Town Hall, Viborg, Denmark (2011)
• Spiegel House, Hamburg, Germany (2011)^[11]
• Harpa - Reykjavík Concert Hall and Conference Centre, Reykjavík, Iceland (2011)^[12]
• Low-energy office building, Ballerup, Denmark(2011)^[13]
• Umeå Arts Campus, Umeå, Sweden (2012)
• Skodsborg Spa & Fitness, Skodsborg, Denmark (2012)
• Art Pavilion, Videbæk, Denmark (2012)
• Campus Roskilde, Roskilde, Denmark (2012)
• Klostermark School, Roskilde, Denmark (2012)
• Moesgård Museum, Århus, Denmark (2013)

In progress

• Moesgård Museum extension, Århus, Denmark (u/c, completion 2014)
• Murjan Tower, Bahrain (design only)
• King Abdullah Financial District, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (u/c, completion 2013-2018)
• Batumi Aquarium, Batumi, Georgia (competition win June 2010)^[14]
• Calabar International Conference Center, Calabar, Nigeria (u/c, completion 2013)^[15]
• Crystal Towers, King Abdullah Financial District, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (u/c, completion 2013)^[16]
• Children's Interactive Museum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia(competition win 2011)
• Siemens Headquarters, Munich, Germany (competition win, June 2011)^[17]
• Villas in the Sky, King Abdullah Financial District, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (u/c, completion 2013)^[18]
• Institute of Diplomatic Studies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (u/c, completion 2013)
• Nordea Headquarters, Copenhagen, Denmark (competition win, April 2012)^[19]
• Cultural cluster, Klaksvík, Faroe Islands (competition win, June 2012)^[20]
• Egedal Town Hall, Egedal, Denmark (competition win, September 2012))^[21]
• Ystad Arena, Ystad, Sweden (competition win. u/c, completion 2015]
• Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research, Stuttgart, Germany (competition win, October 2012)^[22]
• The School on the Terraces, Aarhus, Denmark (competition win. u/c completion 2016)
• Herlev Hospital extension, Herlev, Denmark (competition win. u/c completion 2017)
• Campus Aas, Aas, Norway (competition win. u/c completion 2018)
• European Spallation Source, Lund, Sweden (competition win, February 2013)^[23]
• Vinge, Frederikssund, Denmark. (Masterplan, competition win.)
• Kiruna Town Hall, Kiruna, Sweden (competition win, September 2013)^[24]
• Central Bank of Libya, Tripoli, Libya (competition win, April 2014)^[25]

Awards

• 1987 International Design Award, London
• 1989 Aga Khan Award for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riyadh^[26]
• 1997 Kasper Salin Prize for Malmö City Library
• 2005 LEAF Award, Grand Prix for IT University of Copenhagen
• 2008 RIBA Award for Roland Levinsky Building^[27]
• 2010 LEAF Award for The Wave (residential category)^[28]
• 2010 IDA International Design Award (Architectural Design of the Year category) for Batumi Aquarium^[29]
• 2011 Civic Trust Award for The Wave^[30]
• 2012 Best Performance Space for Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre, Travel + Leisure Design Awards
• 2012 Civic Trust Award for Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre^[31]
• 2013 Civic Trust Award for Umea Arts Campus^[32]
• 2013 Architizer A+ Award (+Light category) for Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre^[33]
• 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture for Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre^[34]
• 2013 Emirates Glass Leaf Award for Harpa – Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre (Best Public Building - Culture)^[35]
• 2013 Emirates Glass Leaf Award for Campus Roskilde (Best Public Building - Education & Research)^[35]
• 2014 Civic Trust Award for ampus Roskilde^[36]
• 2015 Civic Trust Award for Mosgaard Museum^[37]

Exhibitions

• 1999 "The Architect's Studio" at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark^[38]
• 2011 "what if...?" at Utzon Center, Aalborg, Denmark.^[39] 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". ^[40]

See also

• Architecture of Denmark
• List of Danish architectural firms

References

External links

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