HPFi
Restricted international competition on the Future Art Building in the Orestad. 7 teams invited. Entry by PUSH / Christophe Cornubert with Abbie Chung, Grace Lau, Robert Sumrell, Merisa Dewa and Tine Østergaard
UiD / Henrik Valeur (urban worlds)
Michael Heim (virtual worlds)
Consultants: Ove Arup & Partners / Anders Carlson (structure), Jennifer Innes (MEP) and Eric Lockwood (IT/Acoustics). Bill Balou, Theatre Consultant.
Los Angeles, 2000.
Extracts from the Jury's report: The Jury appreciated the project’s bold, descriptive and visionary tone, revealing many innovative approaches and stunning imagery ...
HPFi [468K]
HPFp © UiD
Prize competition on an Art Hotel for Hotel Pro Forma. Proposal by UiD / Henrik Valeur and Bent Johan Poulsen, Copenhagen, 2000.
Diagrammatic proposal for an open environment capable of instant reorganizations. An environment in which the traditional role of the creator, actor and spectator may be confused, and in which facts and fantasies may dissolve into one another.
HPFp[232K]
Irma+
Renovation project commissioned by the municipal council of Rødovre, for a vacant industrial building to be used by artists. Proposal by Henrik Valeur, Thomas Kolding, Jens Jørgen Poulsen and Mette Vangsgaard, Copenhagen, 1999.
Irma’s Coffee Tower is a miniature skyscraper built in 1967 in a late modernist suburb of Copenhagen …
Extracts from article in Politiken by Libbie Fjelstrup: [...] a very ambitious proposal, for the conversion of the Coffee Tower into an art building with film and theatre facilities, studios for lithographic artists, set designers, visual artists and architects, a framework for seminars and workshops and a number of apartments for visiting foreign artists.
Irma+[640K]