Kulturvaerftet at Helsingør

On 10.10.10 Helsingør, previously best known for Kronborg (Hamlet's) Castle, has become home to new Culture Centre, Kultur Værftet. The new glass building, overviewing the castle and hosting most wonderful music and artistic events, has been designed by Aarhus based AART Architects and represents one of the latest successes of Danish Design and Architecture. You can see more details on its architectural design on Dezeen website where you also can find some beautiful photography by Adam Mørk. It seems that the agency has followed all the latest trends of environmentally friendly, illumination and energy saving techniques.

Elsinoreøs old shipbuilding yard has been transformed into a 17,000m2 cultural and knowledge centre, including concert halls, showrooms, conference rooms, a dockyard museum and a public library. Agency has received 1st prize in open international architecture competition for their innovative approach.

The centre is a great addition to many other new architectural ambitious developments within Denmark, that are all moving towards 100% sustainability by 2050. Can a small country like Denmark achieve this? Time will show, but with their extremely optimistic, hardworking attitude that can be possible. Denmark is a small country and what they would like to achieve is complete independence from international oil powers. Danish modern economy is mostly built on knowledge-based resources. Setting up such goals Denmark is setting up an excellent example to the world about possibilities of engineering, innovation and development. While others only just starting talking about, Denmark is already doing it.

If you would like to be a part of great movement or just want to learn from the best, then you should consider your education in Denmark. If you are looking for a carrer in architecture, green technologies or innovation, Denmark is a country that can help you achieve your greatest goals and aspirations. It is not just quality education that will benefit you, but it is vast, green spaces filled with clean and smooth architectural styles throughout the country. You will be fascinated by their simplicity, the quality Scandinavian design is very much famous for. As a designer myself, no matter where I go, it is the feeling of order that you get when surrounded by such architecture. Everything has some sort of structure to everything, the whole of Denmark is filled with many beautiful design objects that will keep on inspiring you. The only downside of this is that we all, as humans, get used to good things too fast, and after living here for a while, might stop noticing and appreciating Scandinavian simplicity (many Danes don't see any benefits of this and find it a little 'borring'). I see it as just another perspective of how we view the world, we all build opinions based on our past experiences and on our dreams.