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Arresting copper: a house on Denmark's austere north coast opens to magnificent views of sea and sky
The top end of Jutland (the bit of Denmark that points northwards from the main mass of the Continent) is very flat and rather sparsely populated....
Architectural Review, The, 06/01/04 by Henry Miles · More from publication -
Photo finish: carefully inserted into a historic naval warehouse, this photography museum has an enthralling spatial variety
Sverre Fehn's career has been punctuated by distinguished and thoughtful museums. The archaelogical museum at Hamar (also known as the Cathedral...
Architectural Review, The, 07/01/03 by Henry Miles · More from publication -
Nordic faith: by reinterpreting traditional types, this little church achieves an intensity which is enhanced by great sensitivity in use of materials and light
Traditionally, there are not many Roman Catholics in Scandinavia. The small town of Kongsvinger, in Norway, east of Oslo and near the Swedish...
Architectural Review, The, 03/01/03 by Henry Miles · More from publication -
Light reading: a library which draws on the light of the north to create a major contribution to both civic life and scholarship
Sweden is developing an enviable record for producing fine public libraries, just at a time when they are being shut down, or at least gravely...
Architectural Review, The, 02/01/03 by Henry Miles · More from publication -
Delight: changeful as a Ruskinian Church, wild as the strangest gothick fantasy from Hollywood, this extraordinarily exuberant timber building towers over the grim texture of Archangel
This very strange erection is in the White Sea port city of Archangel, whacked up in a moment of post-Gorbachevian ebullience. In some ways, it...
Architectural Review, The, 06/01/02 by Henry Miles · More from publication -
Cool urbanity: metal is the main material that allows this centre to help make a Finnish suburb into a real piece of civic design, and focus for a disparate community - Helsinki, Finland - Brief Article
The suburbs of Helsinki, as of many other northern European cities, often show the least cheering aspects of Modernist planning, with individual...
Architectural Review, The, 06/01/02 by Henry Miles · More from publication -
Erskine's Aula: Ralph Erskine and his colleagues continue their reinvention of the Stockholm University Frescati campus as a humane model for higher learning institutions - Brief Article
UNIVERSITY GREAT HALL, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN UNIVERSITY GREAT HALL, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN ARCHITECT RALPH ERSKINE The University of Stockholm's...
Architectural Review, The, 05/01/02 by Henry Miles · More from publication -
Rust in urbe: one of the most daring and inventive university complexes of the 1970s has been extended and augmented with sympathy for the existing buildings and for the students who use them - Brief Article
UNIVERSITY, ODENSE, FYN, DENMARK UNIVERSITY, ODENSE, FYN, DENMARK ARCHITECT CUBO ARKITEKTER Odense University was one of the minor...
Architectural Review, The, 05/01/02 by Henry Miles · More from publication -
Danish dignity: the chapel may have been displaced from being the centre of the hospital , but it can play its part in healing - p40 - Brief Article
The Lutherans (particularly the Scandinavian kind) have produced many of the most moving religious buildings of the last 100 years. Quiet...
Architectural Review, The, 03/01/02 by Henry Miles · More from publication -
Norwegian Roots - Brief Article
The museum to Ivar Aasen, the man who distilled a new national language for the emerging Norwegian nation, is carved out of his native hillside in...
Architectural Review, The, 09/01/01 by Henry Miles · More from publication
