Architecture and Design Festival in Copenhagen
2006.03.15
Cph ADD is a new architecture and design festival with focus on architectonical and designing traditions and trends. The event will take place from 5-7 May while Copenhagen International Furniture Fair is also on. The event appeals to a broad audience. Thus there will be special made guided tours, increased opening hours and other design events giving everyone a chance to get up close and behind the special architecture and design of Copenhagen. The festival will consist of a wide range of events across Copenhagen and will be held in places associated with architecture and design.
Amongst the various activities are visits to Copenhagen’s new and trendy hotels, shops and show rooms. Also the new city areas of Copenhagen – Ørestad, Islands Brygge, Amerika Plads and Sluseholmen – will take part in the festival. Close to 100 companies and cultural institutions participate in Cph ADD, such as the Danish Design Centre, the Danish Architecture Centre, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s new multimedia city and the Carlsberg Breweries. During the festival Carlsberg will open buildings and areas of the brewery that are normally closed to the public.
Arne Jacobsen, Georg Jensen, Hans Wegner, Poul Henningsen and Henning Larsen are just a few of the big international acknowledged Danish designers and architects, who have been part of placing Copenhagen up front as design destination. Also different foreign architects as Zarah Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Norman Foster and Daniel Libeskind have left their mark on the architectonical expression of Copenhagen.
[Courtesy of www.visitcopenhagen.com]
