Danish practice schmidt hammer lassen architects has won the international architectural competition to design a 188 meter office tower in the financial district of central Warsaw, Poland. The 60,000 m2 high-rise building is to replace the existing ‘Ilmet’ building.

The Crystal, the new extension to the financial institution Nykredit in Copenhagen, Denmark, by schmidt hammer lassen architects, has won an Emirates Glass LEAF Award in the category ‘Best Structural Design of the Year’ 2011.

The new City of Westminster College in London which opened to students on January 10, 2011 is the first completed building by Danish schmidt hammer lassen architects in the UK, soon to be followed by The Learning Zone – Library and Learning Centre in Sheffield and the…

The design for the new Central Library in Halifax, Canada was recently revealed at the fifth public consultation meeting. At this last public consultation meeting in the design phase of the Halifax Central Library, the architects identified the trends from all four of the prior public meetings and showed how…

Danish practice schmidt hammer lassen architects has won the competition to design the new master plan and extension of Kolding Hospital in Denmark. The 32,000 m2 extension with a bed ward, an emergency ward and a new main entrance has been designed together with NIRAS, CREO, Balslev…

schmidt hammer lassen architects has won the competition to design a 54,000m2 concert, congress and hotel complex in Malmö, Sweden. The competition, where firms like Snøhetta, Baumschlager Eberle and Daniel Libeskind participated, also included the development of additionally 35,000m2 for housing and commercial use. This…

Danish firm schmidt hammer lassen architects has won an international design competition for a new 13,500 m2 auditorium complex for the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen University) in Aachen, Germany. Twenty-one German and international companies were invited to participate in the competition. This…

Danish practice schmidt hammer lassen architects (SHL Architects) has won an international competition to design “Urban Mediaspace”, the largest public library in Scandinavia.  The €228 ($288) million scheme, located in Aarhus, Denmark, will become a new visual and cultural focal point for the city whilst pioneering the next generation of…

A master plan by schmidt hammer lassen architects is to transform a site of a former slaughterhouse in Horsens of Western Denmark into a mixed-use commercial, office and cultural complex including residential areas. The 70,000 m2 development on the site of a…