In Sweden, Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects’s winning project aims to create a crystalline landmark for Helsingborg. By giving the new life to the existing city waterfront, the project consists of a 16,900 m2 congress and hotel facility and 17,100 m2 housing. It was inspired by the city’s block structure, skewed and developed from [...]

Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects’s largest school project – The Thor Heyerdahl School of Advanced and Further Education recently has been completed in Larvik, Norway. We have chosen to rethink and challenge the traditional boundaries surrounding school buildings. We wanted to create an architectonic base for a well functioning student environment and increased cross disciplinary [...]

Denmark-based Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects‘ winning proposal for the international competition to design “Urban Mediaspace”, the largest public library in Scandinavia, is part of a wider plan to regenerate the old cargo docks on the harbour front in the Danish city of Aarhus. The building’s distinctive heptagonal-shape design will be a landmark in Aarhus. Urban [...]