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On the HMC vocational school for wood, furniture and interior the focus lies on making sure that these future craftsmen and designers obtain skills that they can keep developing during the rest of their life. Change in their profession will be a certain factor, as it will be for many design professions. It is the innovative approaches of the new buildings in Ørestad, both interior as exterior, that we want to add to these...

Scaledenmark toured the Harbour Cirle as well as Ørestad with delegates of Max Hofmann, a company of architects, investors and developers which has been contributing for over hundred years to very diverse city parts of Hamburg. They have been constructing high quality buildings for commercial, public and residential aims. Residential buildings were the focus of our tour, but through the bicycle ride along the harbor...

Scaledenmark has recently returned from a Guiding Architects meeting in the city of Granada, Andalucía, Southern Spain. The meeting celebrates a very successful year for the network with more than 3.000 tours and almost 36.000 participants discovering the history, cultural context, technical innovation, and sustainable development of buildings and urban spaces across the globe. 

The meeting was also focused on educational development and cultural engagement processes. In addition...

Scaledenmark was proud to present the special lecture “The Øresund Region as a value based cross-national region” to 29 business leaders from across Northern Europe (Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Sweden) participating in the Swedish Institute Management Programme (SIMP) in Malmö, Sweden.

The Øresund Region is the Nordic countries’ largest and most densely populated metropolitan region. The bi-national Swedish-Danish region began with clear cross-...

Scaledenmark has made a special connection with its JOTUN professional network in Istanbul, Turkey. Following a successful program tour with JOTUN’s Color Design Days in early September, Scaledenmark had the privilege of being invited to present the lecture, “Copenhagen as an Eco-Metropole” to Association of Architects in Private Practice in Istanbul. 

The association organizes lectures, conferences and discussion panels for various actors of the architectural profession to...

Exploring Copenhagen’s Urban Transformation

What does it mean to be a Copenhagener? And how has Copenhagen transformed from a city at near bankruptcy to a living model for sustainable green growth?

Copenhagen is ever-evolving, and it has many stories to tell. Released in June 2018, Scaledenmark has published the urban anthology Exploring Copenhagen - a 288-page collection of professional interviews and essays on the last 25 years of urban...

Ørestad is one of our most sought-after case studies for our consultancy clients, as the visionary PPP model that helped transformed the district (and Copenhagen at-large) is an extremely attractive case study for smart zoning, transit financing, and asset management for publicly owned, privately managed land development. 

Scaledenmark reflected on this planning model and together with Röck Baggenstos navigated the masterplan, neighborhood development, and phasing development...

Scaledenmark welcomed design delegates from BDA -Düsseldorf (Bund Deutscher Architekten) for a study tour focusing on Copenhagen’s approach to livability and blue/green infrastructure. BDA came prepared to investigate Copenhagen’s public and private planning frameworks with the goal of taking their own city and region to the next level to improve everyday livability. Scaledenmark was impressed with their level of interest in Copenhagen’s planning solutions and livability metrics – as well as...

Scaledenmark held an exciting full study tour program with over 135 international design professionals attending Jotun Colour Design Days in Copenhagen in early September. Scaledenmark’s Bo Chritiansen began the day with the welcome lecture, ”Copenhagen as an Eco-City” to inspire design leaders with Copenhagen’s urban strategies and implementation of sustainable design solutions at various scales. The tour highlighted important urban districts within Copenhagen’s urban redevelopment,...