15 GROHE Magazine Sediciis et aut plis ab inumet arias estem earum dolupta ssimi aut voluptatibus building should interact with its site and the city flow It is a huge building with many functions such as hotel concert hall and congress center We did not want to create a building that was out of scale next to the small river so we had to scale it down in order to connect with the water and the built en vironment The tiles of the facade reflect the exist ing colors of the surrounding buildings and make the connection between old and new Like Dokk1 it also works 360 degrees around to allow the public to flow through the building and access it from all sides Buildings should always give an extra value to the existing urban structure G Denmark and the whole of Scandinavia is well known for its designers What makes Scandinavian architec ture so unique KHJ It is important for Scandinavian architecture to work with materials that are natural in charac ter such as brick stone or wood We have a very good understanding of how to analyze the flow of everyday life in a building not only in private but also in public buildings Scandinavians are not very hierarchical thinkers which is reflected in our architecture it is important that everyone feels comfortable wherever they are in a public building We care a lot about function people materiality detailing and the site where we place a building There is also a particular poetic touch about our buildings inspired by Alvar Aalto who combined all these elements in his work G SHL was founded in Aarhus and Copenhagen and there is now an office in Shanghai Does the Scandina vian approach to building work anywhere in the world KHJ Yes definitely Frankly speaking it s not that the Chinese want to buy Danish houses it s about tak ing part in the Danish way of living We apply our understanding of how buildings can be organized with their users and functions Our general goal is to open buildings up with beautiful materials G In the city of Hjørring you recently completed the Vendsyssel Theatre a complex consisting of cubic shapes in weathering steel and pastel colored translu cent glass How did the idea for the building develop KHJ The building is a good example for how we work in many of our projects the very rough weathering Frosted glass is paired with weathering steel in Schmidt Hammer Lassen s Vendsyssel Theatre in Hjørring Schmidt Hammer Lassen recently designed the New Correctional Facility in Nuuk Greenland the first building of its kind in the country s capital

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