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3XNielsen | company profile
• how we think and work
Since the establishment in 1986, we at 3XN have worked our way to our present status in the contemporary world of architecture. 3XN have primarily made a name for ourselves by winning a wide range of architectural competitions, such as the Museum of Liverpool, UK; the Arts & Media Centre at University of Salford, UK; the Music Building, Amsterdam, NL; the Royal Danish Embassy, Berlin, DE; the Sampension Headquarters, the FIH Headquarters and the Architects' Building, all three in Copenhagen. One of the office's forces is the proven ability to realize the competition proposals' poetry and architectural vision within budget and time limits. In this respect, 3XN display vast experience, rating from sketch planning and computer projecting to construction management and supervision. 3XN have specialised in major challenging tasks such as cultural buildings, public institutions, masterplanning and corporate residences. This means that the firm is continuously engaged in various architectural competitions. A central element of our ongoing development is the quest for a perfected synthesis between simple, clear-cut and visionary architecture and logical, effortless and genuine function. The utmost focus is on architectural control on all levels, from overall contextual coherence to the simplest detail that we encounter with our eyes and bodies every day. Simplicity must never turn plain or conform. We demand perceptive experiences: a sense of vibrating poetic movement that is beyond words as well as matter. We have an ever-present respect for place, history and function. Every building task is unique, and is treated as such. We emphasise architectural articulation via proportioning, the processing of materials and the planning of detail in close co-operation with the individual client.
• how others think we work
Nationally as well as internationally 3XN have been acknowledged by receiving awards and invitations to exhibitions and publications of our projects. June 17 3XN received an RIBA Award 2005 for the Sampension Headquarters in Copenhagen, built 2003. February this year, we were awarded the MIPIM/Architectural Review Future Projects Award for the Copenhagen 'City for all ages'project. The FIH Headquarters was awarded the Copenhagen Architectural Prize and also nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 2002. In 2003, the Savings Bank ‘Kronjylland’s head office in Randers received the municipality’s Architectural Prize. In 2004, 3XN was represented at the Biennale in Venice with no less than three projects - Slussen in Stockholm; The Danish Radio Concert Hall and The Savings Bank 'Kronjylland'. In 1999 3XN showed at the 4a Biennal Internacional de Arquitetura, Sao Paolo, Brazil with the cultural buildings the Oceanarium in Hirtshals; the Glass Museum in Ebeltoft and the Korsvägen Science Centre in Gothenburg. November 2003 the Danish Architectural Press issued a monograph on 3XN - the first in a new series of monographs on younger, Danish architects. On a personal level, Principal Architect Kim Herforth Nielsen received the Eckersberg Medaille from the Danish Academy of Architects in 1999 , and in April 2000 he was awarded Knight of Dannebrog with the right to carry Ridderkorset (Knight’s Cross). 3XN's projects and other information can also be reviewed at www.3xn.dk
• where we think and work
3XN have head office in Aarhus, Jutland, and a major branch at Christianshavn, Copenhagen. In connection with our ongoing projects outside Denmark, we establish temporary project offices or engage into workshops at our project partners’. At the moment, we hold project offices in Kristiansand, Norway, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We attend current workshops in Great Britain, The Netherlands and Germany.
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