Danish Luxury Stonework Apartment Building Facades

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Extensive use of concrete and steel for the construction of buildings in the 20th century - from the late 1920s onwards - meant that the outside walls - the facades of a building - became less crucial for supporting the weight of walls and the upper structure - particularly the weight of the roof - and walls could be broken through and pierced ...

A robust partnership between the government and housing associations draws many architects to participate in housing projects across Denmark.

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The Silo Apartment Building in Copenhagen by Cobe

In 2017 Danish architects COBE completed the transformation of The Silo, a 17-storey former industrial building converted into a 38 unit residential apartment .

An overarching grid of bricks draws the building's large scale, under which the individual blocks and apartment types are represented by different coloured brick infills. The grid structure runs free from the facades and forms pergolas over the greened living areas of the roof surfaces.