Last week we had a week long workshop together with a group of talents from the Architecture Dept. at the Academy. The group was making an urban research for the City of Reykjavík and the conclusion of the workshop will be realised this fall. We thank the group for a great time at our office last week and look forward to the making of the project.
This week Sophie Rye Hansen began her internship at KRADS. Sophie is already hard at work and we are delighted that Sophie is spending her fall semester at the KRADS office.
KRADS has been prequalified for the competition:
Last sunday we had the first workshop concerning the new private school in Ugelbølle. It was a great sunday afternoon - sunny weather and perfect conditions for gathering the important information and inspiration needed. We enjoyed meeting all the parents and kids that are the focus of this project.
Last friday the completion of the first section of Kauptún shopping-centre was celebrated with style - including cold beers, grilled lamb and a whole lot of sunshine.
Ugelbølle / Denmark are planning to build a new independent elementary school - as it has been decided to close down the local public school. KRADS have been commissioned to be the architects on the project and the programming process. Here is a sneak peek at the first sketches of how the school could look like.
This week the first blocks for the Villa G foundation hit the ground. Our first trip to the site during construction leaves us with a great impression of the house's geometry and its relation to the the building sites stunning view.
We are looking for some creative talents to join us for an internship period in our studio - both in Iceland and Denmark. We are currently working on a variety of projects; small scale, large scale, in the developing phases, under construction, competitions, etc. If interested please send a mail to Kristján Örn.
Several workshops have been held developing the BYOASE project in Herning // DK. At the moment the local authorities are writing the local-plan for the area.
Last saturday, during the Iceland DesignMarch, we arranged a very interesting gathering in collaboration with Hugmyndahúsið - "The Building for Big Ideas" and Hugmyndaráðuneytið - "The ministry of Ideas". We held a workshop and got Paul Bennet from IDEO to speak and start a discussion on how design could be the next innovative force to get Iceland´s economy back on it´s feet. Around 100 people showed up and participated in an interesting discussion about the future of design and new innovative business opportunities. It left us all with the thougt that design, or creative thinking in general, is at the moment of the utmost importance. It was a great day and we would like to thank Paul, our collaborators and specially all the people that came, for a great afternoon.
This month KRADS is being published in two different magazines. In ARKITEKTEN 3/09 for our proposal in the CITY CHURCH REVISITED / GETHSEMANE CHURCH which received an honorable mention. In FORUM AID as we were among the nominees for the FORUM AID DESIGN AWARDS with the SKIN BAR DERMALOGICA INTERIOR project.
We were among the 21 pre-qualified teams in the internatioal competition for the Headquarters of the bank "Landsbankinn" in the year 2008. Our proposal was done in collaboration with aart Architects and LW-Planning. The winning entrys have finally been announced so now we are free to put our propsal on the web. Here are a couple of images -the whole project will be published next week on our webmag.
We are working on a urban furniture design based on a modular concept. The MODULAR BENCH can be used in various configurations employing the same basic unit.
We are honored to be among the finalists in this years Forum Aid Awards with our projekt for Dermalogica; Skin Bar & Clinic. The award ceremony will take place at the Rival Theatre in Stockholm on February 3. Read more about Forum Aid Awards and the international jury.
Just updated our webmag with 2 new projects. You can now see our proposal for Union Station in Chicago and the project for Gethsemane Church, a competition which we were awarded "honorable mention" in. More to come in the next couple of weeks. Check it out by clicking the magazine here in the upper right corner.
This past weekend we all gathered in Iceland. We spend 4 days workshopping on a competition, planning ahead and finished the weekend by driving the old Volvo around Reykjavik and checking out all the KRADS building sites. Things are actually getting build and it is great to see the progress. We only had time to visit a few of the villas and the Kauptun shopping center. The pictures show the great geometry of the roofs overhang and the the loading bays ready for concrete.
The office in Reykjavik and the office in Århus are both up to full speed again, doing projects. We are now feeling at home in the now office space in Reykjavik downtown, after moving in at the end of december. We are excited to meet and get to know our new interns starting at the office in february to spend the spring term 09 at KRADS.
Backstage Architecture is a collection of projects that represents an original panorama of architecture on a global level across a network of professionals. In it are the names and contacts of architects under 40 from forty-five different countries, one per country, each selected and presented by a referee in the book Worldwide Architecture.
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