Cupperware factory - Vesterbrogade 107B, Copenhagen

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  • We share the same obsession with details! Love your creations!

    • Great minds think alike..... or something :winking_face:

      But, you are completely right there. I love these old industrial houses as well as the Danish school of architecture known as Bedre Byggeskik which was dominating in all areas of the Danish society in the first half of the 20th century. Critical voices would probably go as far as calling it Völkisch, but it does emcompass all the defining traits of Danish and to a certain extent Northern German architectural history. Nygårdsvej 20 is a beautiful example. Nørrebrogade too, but it is also influenced by the more modern Funkis or Bauhaus thoughts. I could go on and on :) .....

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      Critical voices would probably go as far as calling it Völkisch

      Critical? Sorry, but I think stupid people bear stupid ideas... So what?

      If so called modern architecture would represent only a tiny bit of the beauty of buildings of old I could like it too. Many years I hoped they finally understand that form does not only has to follow function but emotions, sense of beauty, aesthetics.

      But how Greg Lake did sang in Epitaph 'But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying'

      Zitat


      Bedre Byggeskik

      I did a quick picture search. Man you put a flee into my ear :) I do not know if this idiom means the same as it does in German, simply these buildings are amazing!


      Mick!

    • We have two rebellions against "modern" read boxes of glas, concrete and steel going in Denmark and Sweden. Look up Arkitekturoprøret - you would love to read some of the debates going on there.

      Actually quite a few German design offices seem to be able to make modern housing with respect to the surrounding in which the build, but we up here are "cursed" by the legacy of leCorbusier and other modernists, so even trying to do something resembling old school archictecture is labelled as that most derogatory of terms in architecture: pastiche. Needless to say i support the rebels :)


      I think the right term will be "you got the bug" Bedre byggeskik is a very interesting and extremely influentual movement and there is lots of litterature available. You will find it everywhere i Denmark - I live in a late Bedre Byggeskik house myself and my neighbourhood is full of houses like Nygårdsvej 20, because the movement made a catalogue of basic and affordable houses, which ensured proper design for for ordinary people and combined with state loans, this meant a lot of small houses popped up all over the country following WW I. I will post a few renders of some of them.