News from Denmark

The Danish gourmet restaurant Noma has won the title of world’s best restaurant for the third year in a row. In its citation, the jury highlighted chef René Redzepi’s painstaking attention to detail and innovative approach.

”The Old Town” (Aarhus, Denmark) is a museum for everybody. This includes the elderly people, suffering from dimentia. On 21 March 2012 a new building is being branched out – a three-room flat, which will be used in a so called ”Memory Transmission Programme”.

Green Lighthouse is Denmark’s first CO2 neutral public building and is home to the Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen. The building’s circular shape and the adjustable louvers of the façade mirror the course of the sun. The sun being the predominant source of energy is the overriding design concept behind the new building. Green Lighthouse is based on a whole new experiment with an energy concept, consisting of a supply combination of district heating, photovoltaics, solarheating and - cooling and seasonal storage.

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Most Danes still give the preference to the paper version of the books and magazines, which are so pleasant to thumb thorough, feeling the smell of the ”real” paper. Nevertheless, the books and magazines in the digital version are becoming more and more popular. It is proved by the research, conducted by Graphic Association jointly with the analytical institution YouGov.

Since 2013 the Frigate Jylland's 150 years old planks can rest in warmth of new overwintering structure reconstructed on the pattern of original "movable" ship roofs.

The Blue Planet Aquarium is a project of the biggest and modern aquarium in Northern Europe, developed by the Danish architectural studio 3XN. Construction of large-scale project at the moment is already under way in Copenhagen (Denmark).