sust-DANE-able at London Festival of Architecture 2008

See why Copenhagen, Denmark has been named home to not only the world’s Best City – according to Monocle, July/August 2008 - but also the world’s Best Design City. The future of architecture is on display at the Danish Embassy this summer as 18 Danish firms present sustainable new technologies and designs that will contribute to solving the global architectural challenges of the 21^st century.

Curated by a specialist in the field of sustainable architecture, Danish architect Vibeke Grupe Larsen, and housed in an innovative, fully reusable and ultimately recyclable, totally cardboard and paper display by Hemingway Design / Wildcard Creative, the projects are presented through models as well as virtual means at the Danish Embassy, itself of great architectural interest as it is the last building designed by Arne Jacobsen.

sust-DANE-able shows how internationally established Danish architectural practices as well as up-and-coming architects interpret the concept of ‘sustainability’ from a social, economic and, not least, environmental perspective.

The physical setting of this exhibition is a wonderful reason alone for all interested in architecture and design to visit sust-DANE-able. The embassy building on London’s Sloane Street was designed by Arne Jacobsen between 1969-71 and completed in 1976, after his death. This will be the public’s first chance to get inside the courtyard of the embassy and to see an architectural project by one of the greatest designers in history, which has been hidden for 30 years. The richly varied projects on show are based on this tradition of innovative thinking, yet they renew it in accordance with contemporary challenges and requirements.

sust-DANE-able is generating considerable interest and is guaranteed to be one of the hits of this exciting architectural summer season. Exhibition designer Wayne Hemingway highlights that: “This exhibition takes us to places that we all should go, inside the thinking of 18 Danish architectural practices, which demonstrate how social, economic and environmental sustainability is being addressed by the most forward thinking architects now at work. It’s not hard to understand why we called this exhibition sust-DANE-able.”

Participating architectural firms are: 3XN, Aarhus Architects and Aart, Arkitema, C.F. Møller, DISSING & WEITLING, EBD, Force4, Friis & Moltke, Henning Larsen Architects, Holgaard Architects, KHR Architects, Mutopia, Rubow Architects, Schmidt Hammer Lassen, Site, Svendborg Architects and Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects.

To promote new strategies for sustainable architecture and urban design, the Embassy of Denmark has arranged related events, including:

· Tuesday, June 24th: Sustainable Architecture Seminar for architects, students, developers. Media by invitation only
o 09:00-11:50 Speakers from LendLease,Trowers & Hamlins, Crest Nicholson.
o 12:15 Lunch with HRH Crown Princess Mary and exhibition curator, Vibeke Grupe Larsen
o 13:45 Tour of exhibition for HRH Crown Princess Mary and invited media by Vibeke Grupe Larsen, exhibition curator
o 13:30-16:30 Individual media interviews with architects, must be booked in advance
o 16:00 Mr. Mark Whitby, chairman, Rambøll/Whitbybird speaks on ‘Future Perfect’.
o 16:30 Mr. Brian Mikkelsen, Minister for Culture, Denmark, arrives for guided tour of the exhibition.
o 17:00-17:05 Mr. Brian Mikkelsen, Minister for Culture, Denmark, congratulates the exhibitors.
o 17:10- 20:00 Reception sponsored by Rambøll/Whitbybird to meet the architects.

· Wednesday, June 25^th Business-to-Business event. Media by invitation only
o 10:00 opening Business-to-Business event. Developers, architects and others interested in sustainable development will be able to meet individually with the Danish architects.
o 13:00 Lunch
o 17:00 End of Business-to-Business event

· Tuesday, July 1st Breakfast Talk
o 09:00-11:00 Tony Fretton, Henning Thomsen on Sustainable by Design. Media welcome if booked in advance

· Thursday, July 3^rd Breakfast Talk
o 09:00-11:00 Peer Thule Kristensen, Arne Jacobsen’s influence on contemporary architecture. Media welcome if booked in advance

· Tuesday, July 8^th – Saturday, July 12^th Book swapping days
o Visitors will be able to bring a book on architecture and trade it for one of the Danish books on architecture (in English translation)

FACTS:

sust-DANE-able will be open to the public from the 21^th of June until the 12^th of July.
Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday from 3pm – 7pm, Saturday from 12pm – 4pm.

For admission and information, please visit: www.sustdaneable.um.dk
For further information please contact:
The Embassy of Denmark:
Commercial Advisor: Louise Kirketerp: loukir@um.dk, phone: 020 7333 0222

The exhibition has been created in association with: the Danish Architecture Centre, the Royal Institute of British Architects, Danish Architectural Association (DANSKE ARK) and the British Council’s Embassies Project.

Sponsored by: the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Danish Arts Agency, Realdania, The Knud Høigaard Foundation, Rambøl Whitbybird, Vestas, Danske Bank UK, DSV, Velux, Erco and Arup AGU.

HAMMERSHØI: THE POETRY OF SILENCE

BREAKFAST PREVIEW FOR DANISH ORGANISATIONS

8.00am to10.00am – Saturday, 28 June 2008

The Royal Academy of Arts and The Royal Danish Embassy are giving members of Danish organisations in London the special opportunity to have a breakfast Preview of the Hammershøi exhibition immediately prior to the opening to the general public on Saturday, 28 June 2008.

We shall have the benefit of hearing MaryAnne Stephens, Director of Academic Affairs at the Academy, talk about the exhibition at about 8.30am – we shall then be free to enjoy the paintings before the Academy is open to the public at 10.00am.

A buffet breakfast will be served between 8.00am and 10.00am in the Reynolds Room – one of the Academy’s Fine Rooms – when the following will be served.

Mini Danish pastries, croissants and preserves

Bread rolls and a selection of sliced cheeses

Fresh fruit skewers

Coffee, tea and fresh fruit juices

Tickets – £30 for members of the Anglo-Danish Society, the Danish Club, the Danish Church, the DUCC, and KFUK

Please complete the coupon below and send it with your cheque, and a SAE to:

Graham Hughes,

ADS Honorary Treasurer,

33 Lyonsdown Avenue,

New Barnet,

Hertfordshire EN5 1DU

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