Denmark has an inspiring story to tell. With a focus on reuse, repair and materiality, Danish architects and their cross-industry collaborators are reframing the notion of what good architecture looks like and what can be done to achieve it.
Reuse is at the heart of this month's buildings, which include a workspace and community hub converted from a 1960s Copenhagen factory. Also featured are a revamped 1950s Modernist office building and the transformation of a former schoolhouse into an experimental centre for regenerative practice.
The AJ's Fran Williams and Rob Wilson also offer an inspiring projects round-up, presenting projects by leading architects in Denmark that show how existing materials we have to hand, in current building stock or bio-based, can be beautiful.
In News, read about this year's RIBA Stirling Prize winner, Witherford Watson Mann's Appleby Blue Almshouse. Also featured in News, we remember Terry Farrell, and explore a system for re-using concrete, tested in Denmark and due to become a UK first.
Meanwhile, an essay by architectural historians Barnabas Calder and Florian Urban questions whether embodied carbon is a 'vanity metric'. And in Culture, discover how Denmark's first architecture biennial was a call to action, valuing 'process over product and community over consumption'
