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62.000 NEW TREES FOR COPENHAGEN!
15.06.2020For a long time it has been Copenhagen municipality's aim to plant 100.000 trees before 2025. Only one third of them have been planted, mostly in the city forest on Amager. But that will change soon, as the municipality has decided to use 1.3 billion kroners to reach its goal! Picture: Naturpark Amager.
DENMARK MOST SUSTAINABLE COUNTRY ON 2020EPI
08.06.2020The 2020 Environmental Performance Index has named Copenhagen as the best environmental performing country of 180 studied countries. The report states: “Denmark leads the world on climate change action, having reduced its CO2 emissions by more than half since peaking in 1996 (World Bank, 2019). Denmark’s capital city of Copenhagen has slashed emissions through investment in wind energy and biomass, adoption of district heating and cooling systems, and expansion of bike lanes to the point...
read moreVIRTUAL LUNCH WALK MALMÖ
27.05.2020Join us next wednesday, 3rd of June 2020 on a virtual architecture and urban planning tour. We will 'walk' around Hyllie, a commercial hub close to the Øresund Bridge, and the Western Harbour, a residential neighbourhood developed on a brownfield site. The sustainable neighbourhoods focus on the latest high-tech solutions and form Swedish flagships of energy efficiency. Both areas aspire to be in harmony with nature as much as possible, with diverse green space and a high biodiversity. Find...
read moreWORLD ARCHITECTURE CAPITAL 2023: COPENHAGEN!
20.05.2020Copenhagen is the second city to recieve the label "Unesco world capital of architecture". In 2023, Copenhagen will also host the World Congress of Architects. It is a good opportunity to reflect together with the world and continue our road to carbon-neutrality.
CPH VILLAGE AWARDED
30.04.2020CPH Village has been awarded a building price by Copenhagen municipality. The focus of the award is a special relationship to the surrounding urban environment. The student housing employs old containers to create a harbor aesthetics and is very outgoing towards its industrial surroundings. The students each have their own small living space, with a shared bathroom per two persons. The rest of the living functions is shared in a community house which can also serve for bigger arrangements,...
read moreBORNHOLM MOST SUSTAINABLE ISLAND IN EUROPE
30.04.2020Bornholm has been chosen as the most sustainable island in Europe! Samsø, another Danish Island, is a close second. Bornholm has been focusing for a long time on the green transition. Bornholm, among other things, has distinguished itself by beginning the phase-out of coal and oil early. And with limited financial resources available installing renewable energy sources. The result is an efficient and reduced energy consumption and large reductions in CO2 emissions. Other initiatives as...
read moreNORDIC CO-OPERATION VISION 2030
30.04.2020We can't loose track of other challenges we were facing. Therefore we want to highlight again the vision for the Nordic Region, something we should continue to keep in mind. The Nordic Council of Ministers envisioned last year in Iceland that the Nordic region will become the most sustainable and integrated region in the world by 2030. Co-operation is key in achieving this goal.
The shared priorities:
1. A green Nordic region – towards carbon neutrality and a sustainable...
read moreFEMERN-TUNNEL
24.04.2020Good news from the mobility front! The construction of the Femern belt, a tunnel from Denmark to Germany will start next year. This was decided by the Danish Parliament, after five years of struggling getting the project approved. With its 18 kilometer it will be the longest tunnel of its kind. Soon it will be possible to travel between Rødby (DK) and Puttgarden (GE) in 7 minutes by train and 10 by car, instead of the usual 45 minutes on the ferry.
read moreTOGETHER, APART
02.04.2020It has been three weeks today that Denmark started to close down. As much as possible we have been trying to stand together, but stay apart. As many others, we have said goodbye to our office space at Bloxhub and are writing this from our home office. Everyone had to make tough decisions which were necessary to flatten the curve. And it seems to be working for now. On Monday Mette Frederiksen, prime minister of Denmark, announced that with continuous efforts and stabilizing numbers, we can...
read moreALMANAK | CO-LIVING WITH THE SEASONS
02.04.2020Kant architects defines a new interesting typology for co-housing: the almanak. In times like these it is all the more important to define how our communities should be shaped in the future. "The Almanac is developed on the reinterpretation of the traditional location-based calendar. The Almanac is a method and architectural approach that establishes community while defining architecture. The architectural typology, is a microcosm where the ground floor unites the landscape and the community...
read moreTHE CITY FROM A NEW PERSPECTIVE
26.03.2020The current crisis situation is putting a hold on tourism and exploring. But every crisis also opens new doors! Our colleagues of the Guiding Architects network in Hamburg, A-tour, have decided to bring the world to you through mini-interviews. We had the honour to share as the first city what is going on in Copenhagen and how we can keep enjoying what the city of green has to offer. Read our interview below and others on https://www.a-tour.de/en...
read moreSTRING - A MEGAREGION
07.03.2020Have you heard from STRING yet? It is a cross-border organisation working to create a new green megaregion in the north. The Øresund region, with Malmø and Copenhagen, forms a hinge in this megaregion connecting Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Infrastructure is one of their main focuspoints and the Fehmarn Belt Fixed link is the next step in linking the countries even tighter together. Read more on https://stringnetwork.org/
read moreINSTAGRAM EXPLORING COPENHAGEN
27.02.2020Scaledenmark proudly introduces its second instagram page: @exploringcopenhagen_ !
The account is closely linked to the book and is built up in the same way: 12 months, 12 neighbourhoods. Every month we will provide you with Copenhagen's best practice solutions of that particular neighbourhood, the design tools employed and select quotes from the book. In this way we provide a new platform for a continuous debate and we invite you to join! Whether you are a tourist, student, designer...
read moreJAPANESE DELEGATION VISITS BLOX
12.02.2020In February Scaledenmark held a talk for a Japanese delegation who wanted to learn more about Copenhagen’s urban development towards a carbon-neutral city. Our lecture “Copenhagen CO2-Neutral by 2025” provided them with a lot of inspiring case-studies. Find out more info about this and other talks under our “Lectures” tab above!
Some of the companies forming in the Japanese...
read moreGENERAL ASSEMBLY GUIDING ARCHITECTS | GLASGOW
09.02.2020This year’s meeting in Scotland was a great success, thanks to the tremendous efforts of our colleagues! We had some great exchange of experience, workshops, lectures and of course an amazing tour through the city of Glasgow. We are so excited to include four new members into the network: Warsaw, Sao Paolo, Bregenz and London!
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read moreURBAN LEADERS 2019
18.12.2019Scaledenmark can look back on a year – and by extension decade – of guiding urban leaders from all around the world in the Øresund region. Through engaged storytelling we have empowered a wide range of professionals and students to implement Copenhagen and Malmö’s holistic sustainable design solutions in their own practice.
We are...
read moreATELIER M2 | CH
13.12.2019Nine Suisse architects from Atelier M2 faced the Copenhagen winter with us and went around several projects in Ørestad, such as Tietgen Student housing and the Mountain dwellings. They ended up biking along the harbor, where they explored the public buildings that revived the inner city, amongst others our own home base BLOX. We had many interesting discussions on the strong design culture in...
read moreGOTTLIEB PALUDAN ARCHITECTS | NO
21.11.2019In the beginning of the summer the Danish company Gottlieb Paludan Architects took over the Norwegian company Tegn_3, with offices in Trondheim and Oslo. We had the pleasure to guide around 35 employees of this united Scandinavian design and architecture practice. Using the newly inaugurated Metro Cityring the entire day added to the experience of Copenhagens sophisticated network of green...
read moreBUILDING GREEN CPH
31.10.2019If one wanted to get an idea of what sustainable architecture and urban planning is in Denmark, then it was for once a better idea to spend two days inside. Instead of moving through Copenhagen looking at thought-provoking case-studies Scaledenmark changed its learning ground to the Building Green convention at Forum in Frederiksberg. The focus, besides the usual state of affairs on sustainable...
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