The beauty of stairs. The Ascension of the Architecture
13/08/2017.
[VIDEO] by Monocle
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
In 1961 Arne Jacobsen won a restricted tender for the design of the building. The project has fully the issues that the architect submitted in the contest, except that the building rotates 180 degrees to change the original facade located on the north side and passing to be located permanently in the opposite facade for security reasons.
The first phase was completed in 1971 with the construction of printing and of the offices, after the architect’s death the rest of the building, the entrance and the lower body were completed by its collaborators and partners and Otto Hans Dissing Weitling, this phase completed in 1978.
A modest and discreet opening in the south facade is the main entrance, through a curved corridor is the powerful lobby of almost 20 meters high, a space with a ladder suspended from the ceiling that serves as access to the six floors.