© Tony Fretton Architects . Pubblicata il 18 Maggio 2005.

In 2000 the experimental dance group Hotel Proforma launched a £20 million competition for the design of an arts complex on a plot they had commandeered on the Armager peninsular, Copenhagen.

© Tony Fretton Architects . Pubblicata il 18 Maggio 2005.

We proposed a scheme that was smaller and stranger than the development surrounding it, so that would nestle into the fabric of the city with unashamed contemporary intensity much like Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum in New York.

© Tony Fretton Architects . Pubblicata il 18 Maggio 2005.

The ground floor of the buildings are open and city-like, with entrances on to the Square on the South side and and a more peaceful court on the East side. As you ascend the building to reach the galleries and hotel, the spaces get progrssively calmer. The proposed materials for the scheme are a light gold and bronze curtain on a concrete interior structure, creating a space that is monumental and refined on the outside yet raw on the inside

© Tony Fretton Architects . Pubblicata il 18 Maggio 2005.