Entasis is an award-winning Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 architecture firm based in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

. It takens its name from the Greek word for tension.

History

Entasis was founded by Christian and Signe Cold in 1996. Their first building, a new main entrance for Copenhagen Zoo, was awarded the AIA Prize 'Best Building in Europe 1998'.

In 2007 the firm won the high-profile open international competition for the redevelopment of the former Carlsberg brewery site in Copenhagen, with a proposal which, in reaction to Modernist planning, relied on dense, Medieval

Middle Ages

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 town centres for inspiration. An emphasis on physical density and the human scale

Human scale

Human scale is the set of physical quantities, and quantities of information, characterizing the human body, its motor, sensory, or mental capabilities, and human social institutions.- Science vs...

 are characteristic of their work. The same trend is seen in their entry for the Søtorvet competition in Silkeborg

Silkeborg

Silkeborg is a city in central Denmark. Located in Silkeborg municipality in Jutland, the city has a population of 42,724 . The development of Silkeborg as a modern city may be traced to the foundation of the paper mill by Michael Drewsen on the Gudenaa in 1844...

 which they won in 2010.

Selected projects

• Main entrance, Copenhagen Zoo, Copenhagen (1998)
• Kildeskovshallen, Gentofte
  Gentofte
  Gentofte Kommune is a municipality in the Capital Region of Denmark on the east coast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of , and has a total population of 68,913...
  
  , Copenhagen (2000)
• Svanemøllen auditorium building , Danish Defense Academy, Copenhagen (2000)
• 124 houses, Trekroner, Denmark (2002)
• Parish Council building, Riga
  Riga
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  , Latvia
  Latvia
  Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
  
   (2003)
• Emaljehaven housing, , 2004
• 50+ housing, Ørestad
  Ørestad
  Ørestad is a developing city area in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the island of Amager. It is expected that 20,000 people will live in Ørestad, 20,000 will study, and 80,000 people will be employed in the area...
  
  , Copenhagen (2005)
• Carlsberg masterplan
  Carlsberg (district)
  Carlsberg is an area straddling the border of Valby and Vesterbro districts in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It covers an area of 33 hectares and is the former industrial site of the Carlsberg Breweries, which decommissioned their Valby brewery at the end of 2008, concentrating their production of...
  
  , Copenhagen (2007)
• Spinderiet
  Spinderiet
  Spinderiet may refer to:* Spinderiet , a shopping centre in Copenhagen, Denmark* Spinderiet , a development in Vejle, Spinderiet may refer to:* [[Spinderiet ]], a shopping centre in [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]...
  
  , Valby
  Valby
  ' is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen, Denmark. Located in the southwestern corner of Copenhagen Municipality, it is a heterogeneous mixture of different types of housing - including apartment blocks, terraced housing, areas with single-family houses and allotments, as well as remains...
  
  , Copenhagen (2007)
• Søtorvet masterplan, Silkeborg
  Silkeborg
  Silkeborg is a city in central Denmark. Located in Silkeborg municipality in Jutland, the city has a population of 42,724 . The development of Silkeborg as a modern city may be traced to the foundation of the paper mill by Michael Drewsen on the Gudenaa in 1844...
  
  , Denmark (2010)

Awards

• 1998 AIA Prize for Copenhagen Zoo main entrance
• 2006 Eckersberg Medal
  Eckersberg Medal
  The Eckersberg Medal is an annual award of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts...
  
  
• 2009 WAF Award
  World Architecture Festival
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   (Future projects: Masterplanning category) for Carlsberg masterplan
• 2009 Nykredit Architecture Prize
  Nykredit Architecture Prize
  The Nykredit Architecture Prize is the largest Danish architecture prize. Founded by the Nykredit Foundation, it is awarded annually to awarded annually to a person, or group of persons, who have personally, or through their work, made a significant contribution to the building industry in the form...
  
  

External links

• Official website
• Svanemøllen Auditorium at Copenhagen X