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Hotel ProForma Performing Arts Centre
Copenhagen, Denmark
This scheme for an arts centre in Armager comprises a theatre auditorium, garden,
gallery spaces, a hotel, cafe and restaurant. The venue is a hybrid space
reflecting the fluid nature and requirements of its host organization, experimental
arts group Hotel Pro Forma. It is symbolically and practically organised
as two towers which rise from a public concourse that fills the whole of
the site. One is the walled and roof lit enclosure of the auditorium, the
other a transparent tower of lofts for creative work spaces and the hotel.
The proposed materials for the scheme are a light gold and bronze curtain on a concrete interior structure, creating a space that is monumental and refined on the outside yet raw on the inside. It is the intention that the complex is smaller and stranger than the development surrounding it, so that it nestles into the fabric of the city with unashamed contemporary intensity much like Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York. The ground floor of the buildings are open and city-like. As you ascend the building the spaces get progressively calmer, culminating in the private spaces of the hotel at the top of the building.
Completition date: Competition submission 2000
Client: Hotel Pro Forma
Budget: £20 million
Photographs: David Grandorge
