denmark
Design
Futuristic Building Is Skateboarders Paradise
11:20PM Jesus Diaz | This is Danfoss Universe, which actually feels like a building from another planet but is really a science museum in Nordborg, Denmark. Actually, its interior kind of looks like a spaceship’s bridge: More »
Gadgets
Danish Students Invent Auto-Lowering Toilet Seat. Ha. Ha.
7:00PM Elaine Chow | Some students in Denmark have invented a toilet that functions like a punchline in some god awful 90s sitcom. The seat automatically lowers itself after you flush. LOL GENDER WARS OMG. More »
Screens
1000-Year-Old Runestone Converted into a Digital Projection Wonder
9:08PM John Herrman | Museums—especially history museums—often have a hard time keeping incorporating new technology into their staid exhibits. That is, museums that don’t happen to be in Randers, Denmark. More »
Design
Architect Bitchfight: Which Crazy Mega Bridge Tower Will Dominate?
12:20PM Wilson Rothman | Just like inner-city drug kingpins and high-seas pirates, architects also often find themselves eyeball to eyeball in deadly cutthroat fights. This time around, the Broken Bottle award goes to two firms trying to revamp the mouth of Copenhagen’s harbour with a crazy bridge-building. One team wants to make two towers with a pedestrian walkway between them, while the other designed a building that swoops clear across the harbor mouth, making bridge and tower one and the same. Here’s more evidence for your judgment in this death duel: More »
Design
The Copenhagen Gateway Sees Your Dubai and Raises it 65 Metres
2:45AM Mark Wilson | Copenhagen threw an international competition to design a bridge that would connect their office buildings and civic spaces. Two towers connect their two pedestrian bridges 65 metres above the sea with an remarkably disjointed style that, frankly, looks a bit scary to walk upon. More »
Design
Sky Village ‘Pixel Tower’ is Sustainable, Adaptable and Really Weird Looking
3:45AM Sean Fallon | Today’s crazy building comes to us via the architects at design firms MVRDV and ADEPT. And no, “Sky Village” is not headed for Dubai. Instead, the 380-foot “pixelated” structure will rise above the city of Roskildevej—just east of Copenhagen, Denmark. The building will include apartments, a hotel, retail shops and offices as well as sky gardens for residents. The most interesting aspect of the design however involves the adaptability of the pixel living spaces. galleryPost('pixeltower', 3, ''); More »
Science
Danish Isle Runs Completely on Renewable Energy, Is Greenest Guinea Pig Ever
6:30AM Adrian Covert | In this week’s New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert wrote about the Danish isle of Samsø, which over the past 10 years, has gone from exclusively using fossil fuel energy sources, to living exclusively off renewable energy. Using a combination of onshore and offshore turbines, private mini-turbines, solar panels, straw-burning furnaces and biofuels, the 4,300-resident island has become a sort of a sandbox for green experimentation. More »
Science
