Small rundown of what happening construction- and plan wise in Herning right now. There's quite a small boom these years, I'll only focus on projects in the most central part of Herning here in the first post.


Nørreparken
First we have the big one, the new Nørreparken proposed earlier today. The 500+ million DKR project will consist of some 27.000 m2:

8000 m2 DGI Water/Culture center
7000 m2 Residential
3000-4500 m2 Hotel
3500 m2 Mediahouse
3500 m2 Social and healthcare center

The residential part is a 20 storey highrise, it could be expanded to 25 stories:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/norre1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/norre2.jpg
(© Kobra Arkitekter A/S)


Dalgashus
Dalgashus is a 5 storey shopping/residential center completed last year. There are also 4 floors underground with a big parking garage:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/dalgas2.JPG

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/dalgas1.jpg


Nybolig
Just in front of Dalgashus a new office building has been constructed. The 3 storey building was opened a few months ago:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/nybolig.JPG


Danske Bank Finanscenter
And just across the street from the office building, Danske Bank (largest Danish bank) are gonna build a 5 storey finance center. This area is Hernings small "wall street" with 5 big banks pretty much next to each other.

They just started taking down the 4 houses that stod on the site a few days ago. This is how it will look:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/danskebank.jpg


Now a few residential projects, all under construction and all quite ordinary. But atleast they'll make the central part of Herning more dense :

Sjællandsgade
4 Storey building with parking garage:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/sjaellandsgade.jpg
(© Kobra Arkitekter A/S)


La Cabana
5 Storey senior residential building. To be completed soon:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/lacabana.jpg
(© Fællesbo)


Nygade
4 Storey building + parking garage:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/nygade.jpg
(© Kobra Arkitekter A/S)


Fermaten
Music club are being expanded. Re-construction to start soon. The archtect are Kim Utzon, son of Jørn Utzon:

First how it looks right now:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fermatenold.jpg

And when re-build:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fermatennew.jpg
(© Kim Utzon)

There are a few other sites that are being prepared for construction, mostly 4 storey residentials. And then there is also a quite large site just next to the city hall, where the old fire station has just been demolished. There were plans for an 8 storey building, but they have started all over with the plans, so no one knows what will be build there right now.

Finally a bunch of new residential buildings completed in the last 2-4 years. All in the central part of the city too:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/2.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/3.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/4.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/5.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/6.jpg


More on projects in other parts of Herning later. :)

Nice projects for a town like Herning! The first examples are really typical for Danish architecture right now. So slick, so smooth. :D

I dont like too many of these projects ... They're too oldfashioned ... but for a town like Herning i guess its alright :)

i allso saw what in the news yesterday what´s great for Herning.
what DGI city sounds crazy but i think i know why they will builld it. it´s b/c herning want to have the young Olympic games in some years and really think we can get it.

sry about my english guys i hope u will understand it

Hi Danish_guy and welcome to the forum:wave:

Great to see another Herningenser here. :)

And don't worry about your english skills, I'm sure most people here understands what you're saying;)

I guess you're right about the youth olympics. I remember that the Danish olympic committee visited Herning lately, and one of the things they didn't like were the swimming facilities in town.

im really not from herning but tjørring only 3 km from "downtown". btw ive heard what about the swimming facilities and i thing that DGI city is going to fix what problem.

Small update, with a few projects that has been completed.

First a few new images of the "Nybolig" office building, also seen in post one:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/nybolig1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/nybolig2.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/nybolig3.jpg

Moving some 500 meters to the west, we find "Dalgasparken", a residential project completed about 2 years ago. This one is located right next to the current tallest in Herning, Codanhus. The complex consist of two buildings, a 5 and a 4 storey building. The 5 storey first:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/dalgaspark1.jpg

Some solar cells on the staircases:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/dalgaspark2.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/dalgaspark3.jpg

And here the smaller building:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/dalgaspark4.jpg

Another small update from today.

First a single photo of the new fire/ambulance/falck station. This one opened about a year ago. Nothing super special. One nice thing about it though, is that 2 sites are now empty, one of them right in the middle of Herning, where the old firestation was, hopefully something nice will be build there.

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/redning.jpg


Some of you maybe remember something about an artificial lake being made, "Fuglsang Sø". The first part of it is now done, and the big opening ceremony was today. Next stage is construction of about 500 residential units around the lake, ranging from 2 to 5 stories.

Photos from the ceremony today, it was quite crowded outthere:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang2.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang1.jpg

Thanks, for the update, mlm!
Water always helps to make a city/town more interesting. BTW, how did they get the water into the lake?

The lake is actually a ground water lake, so it came by itself;)

They are talking about "quality architecture" for all the new residentials that are to be build there, so I'm really looking forward to seing some renderings. The first 3 consortiums (spelling?) was just chosen for the fist stage of the construction. Hopefully there'll be more news soon.

There are also another new lake, a bit larger than this one, also soon to be done. It will be close to the new motorway (towards Vejle), but it will just be the lake and not much more. They are also planning yet another lake very close to this Fuglsang Sø. It is supposed to be much larger than this one, and it will include a rowing stadium with international size. There's a map on the municipality website, but it seems to be down at the moment. I'll post it when the site is back up.

ive allso was there yesterday. its great that herning got the youth olympics

Nice updates! I'm obsessed with the pictures you took of the lake! Really really awesome! :applause:

Really nice projects. It`s cool that brick is used in many buildings. Nørreparken
tower looks a bit commieblockish, but lower part is interesting.

Here's another rendering of the Danske Bank Finanscenter. The lower part to the right will be clad in some kind of stone, while the dark one to the left will have glass facade.

It should go UC soon in the small "Wall Street":D Two more new buildings are also going to be build next to it. The archtect told me they were going to build there too, but no renderings so far.

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/danskebank1.jpg
(© Kobra Arkitekter A/S)

kobra arkitekter is building everything here in herning?

/\ Not everything, but surely a lot these years. They are getting quite big. They have also designed one of the 3 approved plans for the new buildings at Fuglsang Sø. Haven't seen any renderings yet though.

i think they will win that one about fuglsang sø

Actually they already won, but they are only part of 1 out of the first 3 projects. More info in this article (http://www.midtvest.dk/index.php?template=tmpl_article_main.php&ID=2676).

How big is Herning? I saw on a map over the Danish motorway network they were currently building one motorway from Aarhus and one other motorway from Lille Baelt (Vejle) to Herning. Or is it a big transportation hub for Jutland and therefore need new roads?

Herning ain't very big, the population of the municipality is 59.277 (Jan 1st, 2005). After the new municipality reform it will have some 82-83.000.

Some of the reasons why Herning is getting these 2 motorways are that the area has a lot of companies that uses a lot of trucks on the roads. Of course there's not the same kind of traffic here as in Copenhagen or Århus, but these trucks can make it kind of a slow experience to drive sometimes. Another reason is Messecenter Herning (http://www.messecenter.dk), which is one of the largest exhibition centers in Northern Europe, and therefore also generates quite a lot of traffic around here (more than 500.000 visitors each year).

There's of course also the "western Denmark need something when Eastern Denmark get something" (big bridges, new motorways etc.) in this, and the politicians from Jutland has been quite good a getting investments over here. Not all Copenhageners agree on this kind of policy, but hey, that's their problem. ;)

It will be interesting to see more from the development around Nørreparken in the next years to come. Anyway, a lot of nice projects around Herning, nothing really unique, but nice! ;)

More cool new for the "Banking District". Today it was announced that yet another bank will build here, this time "Vestjysk Bank". The building will be located right nest to the new Danske Bank Finanscenter, both should be UC very soon. Once again the local Kobra Arkitekter have designed.

The rendering (with Dansk Bank in the background):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vestjysk.jpg
(© Kobra Arkitekter)

There's room for another building to the right of this new one, wouldn't be surprised to see yet another bank/bank related one here.

When these 2 new buildings are completed there will be 6 banks, probably with less than 50 meters between then if you stand right in the middle. There are also 2 real estate agencies in the same area (Home and Nybolig).

The other banks are:

Bonusbanken (HQ)
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bankbonus.jpg

Sparbank Nord
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/banknord.jpg

Sydbank
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/banksydbank.jpg

Morsø Bank
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bankmorso.jpg

I've found some (early) renderings for the first buildings that going UC soon at Fuglsang Sø. Not the best renderings, hopefully something better will come soon. This first stage includes only 2-3 storey buildings, and here we have the 3 first:

Kobra Arkitekter, Herning:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bofuglsang3.jpg

Cebra Arkitekter, Århus:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bofuglsang2.jpg

Arkitekthuset, Silkeborg:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bofuglsang1.jpg

And photos of the area from Herning.dk (http://www..herning.dk), first before, later now:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bofuglsang0.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bofuglsang.jpg

All the buildings will be located on the opposite side of the beaches.

And finally a small plan for the next lake, it will be much bigger than Fuglsang Sø (which can be seen at the bottom):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/newlake.jpg

Nice update!

hmm.. black seems to be a popular color when it comes to newer residential buildings.. like the one in Herning you just posted, plus a bunch of others in Ørestad and other areas in Denmark.. I wonder why? Black is such a depressing color..

Also, the "Arkitekthuset" in Silkeborg.. are they very small appartment buildings or very huge houses?

Ehhh are you refering to the design by Kobra Arkitekter when you are talking about "black"? Doesn't look that that balck to me, but rather glassy.

The Arkitekthuset project are double houses, 2 in each building. A bit more about the 3 first projects:

Kobra Arkitekter: 18 Apartments, all of them in 3 stories. Each buyer will be able to fit out a lot of different thing in their apartment, for example how large a roof tarrace and how many rooms they want. The size is 116-130 m2 and they will cost some 300.000 € (2,2 million dkr).

Cebra Arkitekter: 5 buildings with 5 apartments in each. Each apartment will apparently be 3 stories, and they are all mixed in some weird way. All 25 are different from the others. The size is 80-140 m2 and the price is 230.000 - 320.000 € (1,7-2,4 million dkr).

Arkitekthuset: 5 Double houses with 2 homes in each. All 10 homes are 2 stories. Size is 183 m2 and the price is some 535.000 € (4 million dkr).

Ehhh are you refering to the design by Kobra Arkitekter when you are talking about "black"? Doesn't look that that balck to me, but rather glassy.
Yes it was that one that i was talking about. Yeah it does look very glassy, but apart from all the windows, it's black. Same with the Finanscenter.. i find the color ugly/depressing.. but perhaps its just me..

Okay it's black is you say so:D

And the Finanscenter is of course not a residential building, and half of it is also white. I have no problem with black buildings though, like Ferring for example.

Okay it's black is you say so:D
:sly:

And the Finanscenter is of course not a residential building, and half of it is also white. I have no problem with black buildings though, like Ferring for example.
Ferring is an exception. It's got a nice design to it. I dont mind black buildings either, as long as they got some sort of unique design to it and not the typical boring black concrete like the Finanscenter and some of the other ones proposed.. The building design by Kobra Arkitektur looks black.. i dont know if it is black or not, but it looks like it.. and if its just gonna have the boring black concrete look then im still gonna think its ugly/depressing. Of course this is only a rendering, and things often turn out better in real life than they do in renderings.. :)

...and not the typical boring black concrete like the Finanscenter and some of the other ones proposed...Do you ever read anything before you reply here, or are you just trying to get a high post count? Let me quote myself from one of the posts about the Finanscenter:

Here's another rendering of the Danske Bank Finanscenter. The lower part to the right will be clad in some kind of stone, while the dark one to the left will have glass facade.Where exactly do you see any concrete?

I have no problem with you not liking these projects (for whatever reason you may have). You've made your point, could you now please stop flooding my thread with more of this, thank you.

Do you ever read anything before you reply here, or are you just trying to get a high post count? Let me quote myself from one of the posts about the Finanscenter:

Where exactly do you see any concrete?

I have no problem with you not liking these projects (for whatever reason you may have). You've made your point, could you now please stop flooding my thread with more of this, thank you.
wtf is your problem? seriously? why be so rude about it? Obviously i forgot about the description of the Finanscenter, or else i wouldnt have said what i did. In the renderings it just looks like boring black concrete. I was wrong.. so what? I dunno why you're asking me to stop "flooding" your thread, all im doing is stating my opinion and answering the questions you're asking me :|

I was wrong.. so what?That is exactly the problem. If you had cared to read before posting you would have saved me, and everybody else that has to read this, a lot of time.

Sometimes it's actually better to read the posts instead of making them.

... where´s that popcorn when you need it? Herning Projects - Probably the most hilarious thread ever :)

That is exactly the problem. If you had cared to read before posting you would have saved me, and everybody else that has to read this, a lot of time.

Sometimes it's actually better to read the posts instead of making them.
check your PM.. i dont feel like wasting any more of this thread..

:omg: i can allmost see my house on these overviews nice we get a new bank in the "wall street" area :banana:

Small update on the "Fuglsang Sø" buildings. First a few new, and small renderings of the project shown earlier here, this is the one by Kobra Arkitekter:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bofuglsang3-1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bofuglsang3-2.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bofuglsang3-3.jpg
(all 3 © Kobra Arkitekter A/S)


Other news from today is that the 4th and last site in stage 1 was chosen today. The winning developer will build a 5 storey building (one of 4 or 5 buildings). There will probably be a design out next week (when the name of the developer is revealed).

mlm do u know what one of thes apartments gona cost?

/\ Yes, these will cost some 2.2 million danish kroner. Look at post 25 for more information about the prices. :)

How big is Herning? I saw on a map over the Danish motorway network they were currently building one motorway from Aarhus and one other motorway from Lille Baelt (Vejle) to Herning. Or is it a big transportation hub for Jutland and therefore need new roads?

I´ve studied motorwaypolicies across different european states where a lot of this could be explained. Germany for instance have a minimumlimit of 20,000 daily vechilemovements to achieve motorwaystatus.

In the nordic countries roads are built to get a certain trafficsafety instead, so the limit is said to be some 13,000 movements a day. For Denmark even less, 11,000 movements.

And differences between buildingcosts differce a lot between this both countries..

For me, the most interesting roadproject right now must be the planning of a third road in Ålborg, linking north and south sides over the river of Limfjorden. I like ringroads so I do prefer the alternative with a bridge situated to the west of the city forming a urban ringroad. U will find more information at: http://www.3.limfjordsforbindelse.dk/

yesterday i saw in herning folkeblad what they planned to build more buildings around fuglsang sø... (herning folkeblad is a newspaper for those who dont know what)

/\ Yes I saw that too. I'm looking forward to see the rendering, it will be a 5 storey building with 66 apartments.
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The big news for Herning today is that from January 1st, 2006, Herning will be a university town. Handels- og IngeniørHøjskolen (http://www.hih.dk) will merge with Århus University. :)

damm ive missed the thing about the university town what sounds great

this is the herning metro area
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2671/herningomrdet0vn.th.gif (http://img189.imageshack.us/my.php?image=herningomrdet0vn.gif)

Small construction update:

Last friday construction was started for an expansion of Herning Centret (http://www.herningcentret.dk). The shopping center will get 20 new shops, and when the new part opens in fall 2006 the center will have some 58 shops. At the same time (fall 2006) the new motorway should be ready, and it will have an off/on ramp very close to Herning Centret. A new 15.000 km2 Bauhaus will also open at the same time, also just next to the new motorway.

The architect for the new part of Herning Centret is AK 83 A/S (http://www.ak83.dk/), and the contractor is the local CC Contractor A/S (http://www.cc-contractor.dk/). Haven't seen any renderings yet though, but it will probably be kept in the same style as the rest of the center.

I found a cool photo of the contruction of the new motorway on the Vejdirektoratet website, but I'm not allowed to post it here. If you want to see it you can click on the first link of this page (http://www.vejdirektoratet.dk/dokumentniveau.asp?page=document&objno=76394) (the link is called "Luft-foto af ny motorvejsudfletning syd for Herning").

^^ What's a Bauhaus, mlm? :) Is it a home improvement shop chain?

And thanks for the ny motorvej link, looks very impressive! I think I remember you showed us some pix of the place long, long ago when you rode your bike along the route of the new road.

^^ Yes, it's like Home Depot in the US. :)

Thanks, Denver. :okay:

Now and then one can only make educated guesses here in the forums. I've often been proven wrong with my ideas, so it's nice to be right for a change. ;)

And thanks for the ny motorvej link, looks very impressive! I think I remember you showed us some pix of the place long, long ago when you rode your bike along the route of the new road.I actually think that was another new motorway part, the one just outside Århus (towards Herning). Don't think I've biked on this one yet:) But I'll surely do that next spring/summer when the asphalt is ready.

Another small update. I've calculated the height of the proposed 20 floor Nørreparken residential highrise, and it seems to be 65 m (not confirmed anywhere though). There is also the chance that it can get 25 floors, and of course the other way too (god forbid it). Anyway, if the 65 m is correct it actually has a change of becomming the tallest in Jutland, depending on how fast the 125 m "Udsigten" in Esbjerg is going up....if it's going up at all. It has also been written a lot of places that "KPMG Huset" in Århus is some 68 m, but that is not true. I've looked very closely at the blue prints with the man that was in change of the construction and it is "only" 63.65m. I guess we'll have to wait and see...

Small photo update:

First we have the 2 new banks, construction started some 2 months ago, and they have now digged a large hole for the parking garage. The have also added construction billboards for both buildings. Guess they'll start going upwards soon:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/tavle1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/tavle2.jpg

Some 500 m to the east they have started constructing a small 2 storey building. I wonder why it doesn't have more floors:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/2etager.jpg

And this old crappy building, just some 20-30 meters from the one above will soon be replaced with a new 4 storey residential building:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/4etager.jpg

Finally a photo of the new music school that opened in may this year:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/musikskolen.jpg

Thanx for the update, mlm. :)

Sounds good with a new 'Jutlands tallest'. Only I hope it won't be for too long... ;)
I'm quite sure "Udsigten" is still on track, but they propably haven't found any tennants yet...

Jutland's tallest should have been arcoh's beautiful Lighthouse way up north! :cry: :cry: :cry:

Jutland's tallest should have been arcoh's beautiful Lighthouse way up north! :cry: :cry: :cry:
How very true.... :(

Jutland's tallest should have been arcoh's beautiful Lighthouse way up north! :cry: :cry: :cry:I agree on that. What we need here in Jutland is a big race for the tallest:cool:

mlm, do you use some filter to get those pics. they are so perfect! :)

Great about the new projects though, seem nice urban downtown formers ;)

/\ Thanx karackhal, yes I used a polarizer filter for these last ones. :)

Today another big new project was announced in Herning. A press coference was held at "Herning Artmuseum", about the construction of a new building. 6 Architectural firms had made it to the end in this international competetion, and today the winner was announced, and the projects presented....your's truely was there to cover the event. :)

The 6 architects:
Keith Williams Architects (UK)
Snöhetta (Norge)
3xNielsen (DK)
Caruso St. John Architects (GB)
Steven Holl Architects (US)
CUBO Arkitekter (DK)

The working title of the project is "Herning Center of the Arts (http://www.herningcenterofthearts.dk)".

First some facts:

Location:
Birk Centerpark, Herning, Denmark

Partners:
Herning Art Museum, Ensemble MidtVest, Socle du Monde

Builder:
The Herning House of Art Project Foundation

Building site: 12.000 m2
Gross area: 5-7.000 m2
Cost of construction: DKK 120.000.000 (approx: 16 million €)
Completion: Late 2007

After some speaches by the mayor, and some other important people, the winning architect was announced: (NO, it's for once not the local Kobra Arkitekter:D) New York based Steven Holl Architects (http://www.stevenholl.com/):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kunstenshus1.jpg

Steven Holl presenting his plans:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kunstenshus2.jpg

And here we have the renderings, all © Steven Holl Architects:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kunstenshus3.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kunstenshus4.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kunstenshus5.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kunstenshus6.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kunstenshus7.jpg


Finally got a word from Ingvar Cronhammer outside.

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kunstenshus8.jpg

...he's the artist behind this sculpture located just a few hundred meters from where the new art center will be located:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kunstenshus9.jpg

He said something like "The right winner" and "Great to get an international architect to make something like this, it will really bring something new".

Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any renderings of the 5 "loosing" projects, some of them were quite interesting (one from 3x Nielsen specially). I'll see what I can find...

Enough for now. :)

GREAT news, mlm, and red hot! :okay: I bet this is thrilling for Herning. :cool:

A very interesting project. Finally, not just another boring box. Very good for Herning!

It seems like Cronhammer's got a 5 o'clock shadow. :D

A very interesting project. Finally, not just another boring box. Very good for Herning!
My thoughts exactly :cheers:

Yes it is indeed a very interesting project. :) The jury did not all agree about this design though, but the majority "won". There's a movie news clip from the local TV Station about it, also with an interview with Steven Holl so the non Danish speakers will understand some of it. You can find the clip right here (http://www.15min.dk/nettv.asp?video_id=2448#2448).

Beside the building itself, it is also very exciting that a famous New York architecht has designed it. I guess it's not something that happends every day for towns of Hernings size. :)

EDIT: I just saw myself in the clip. I'm the guy standing in the backgorund with my back turned towards the camera, wearing a white/dark blue jacket and a gray camera back, when the 2. guy is interviewed (Lars Steffensen). I guess I'm a media whore like Staff now :D

:omg: I love it!! BUT: All the architectural feats are only visible from above. It will look pretty ordinary from a pedestrian point of view (except the "swimming pool").

/\ That's what I "fear" most about it too, that the very special roof construction aren't very visible from the outside when standing on the ground. But I guess we'll have to wait for the final result to see. To roof structure should be very visible from the inside though, there's a bit more about it on the project webste > Description of the project (http://www.herningcenterofthearts.dk/uk/asp/kunstenshus.asp).

I just found renderings of one of the "loosing" projects. This is the one from CUBO Arkitekter, and this is the one that 4 of the jury members wanted. I must admit I like the Steven Holl one better:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/CUBO1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/CUBO2.jpg
(Both © CUBO Arkitekter)

/\ same here

I think they would have fared better had they changed that hideous brown colour.

Great news. Good to have Steven Holl building in Denmark. :)
It's a very fine building, though I agree with you guy's,that the roof won't be very visible from streetlevel.
Just another reason to build some highrise arround it, so you can look down on the roof :D

Sure, a lot of highrises all around it:D

I doubt we'll see any new highrises in this area. A lot of smaller office buildings are planned though. Actually there's already a highrise quite close to the site, the not so pretty "Herning Højskole". Here's a map (http://www.degulesider.dk/vbw/oplysningen/redireger.do?hitsPerPageSitemap=10&hitsPerPage=10&compTrade=herning+h%F8jskole&&backParameters=Image51.x%3D0%26compAddress%3D%26compZip%3D%26compPhone%3D%26maxx%3D%26compInfCatID%3D%26compInfHitTypeID%3D%26compTrade%3Dherning%2Bh%25F8jskole%26miny%3D%26maxy%3D%26Image51.y%3D0%26compRegionID%3D%26minx%3D%26compCity%3D%26filterIds%3D%26&backPath=%2Fvbw%2Fsuper%2Fresultat.do%3Bjsessionid%3DbGWsGzWzbKV-&&link=1&subscriberID=1000983604&ordered=1) showing it's location. The new art center will be located just across the street from the round building to the right.

/\ Yes I saw that too. I'm looking forward to see the rendering, it will be a 5 storey building with 66 apartments.Finally managed to find renderings of this new 5 storey building, that are going to be located at the lakefront. The architect is "Arkitekthuset A/S" from Silkeborg. It's a bit boring IMO. The good thing is that all 64 apartments will have a balcony facing the lake. The apartments range from 98 to 156 m2, no prices yet:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/arkitekthuset1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/arkitekthuset2.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/arkitekthuset3.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/arkitekthuset4.jpg
(all © Arkitekthuset A/S)

There will be four other 5 storey buildings around this one, probably all with different designs.

Anoter small update, this time from the suburb "Tjørring" (which has grown together with Herning today). This is actually located quite close to that Fuglsang Sø (from the above post).

This is for a reconstruction and new building at a handicap center (I think). The old building has 7 floors and will be reconstructed, and the new one will have 7 floors too (as far as I can see). Actually I'm not totally sure if the old building will be torn down and replaced with a new one too, I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Architect are Kobra from Herning:

(new building is the one to the right)
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kollektiv1.jpg

(new building is the one to the left)
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kollektiv2.jpg
(both © Kobra Arkitekter A/S)

[QUOTE=mlm]

This is for a reconstruction and new building at a handicap center (I think).

it is. i pass through this ervery day to school

a crane has arrived at the handicap center today!! ive saw it when i has going home from school

New rendering for the proposed DGI center, Hotel, Mediahouse and Highrise. The highrise is now taller, I count atleast 26 floors:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/dgi.jpg
(© Kobra Arkitekter)

Wow, more than 20 stories! Cool, I hope it gets built, but watch out for NIMBYs!

Yeah it's starting to look tall:D

In the beginning of the new year there will be some "hearing" meetings about the project, which will be quite exiting. Until now the NIMBYs have been very quiet, actually I haven't heard anything negative yet. But it's almost unavoidable that someone will complain. The only negative concering height until now is the height of the hotel (the 6 storey in the middle), which would take away a lot of light of from people living next to it, but that has been moved a bit more west now to avoid that.

Also the citycouncil seems very positive so far...

Awesome... like i said in the danish highrises thread, its not quite a skyscraper, but it's still tall enough to enjoy! :D

Wow, looking good. :D
And I really think that Herning is a city where this could happen. They've done it before, though not quite as tall as this one, but still...
:okay: go Herning!

yes!! this just made my day

the reconstruction of the handicap center is started i wil take some pics tommorow if i get the time.

A expansion of "Herning centret" (a mall in Herning) is started a couple of months ago. When it´s done it will be the biggest mall in Jutland. I know this is old news but since i cant find anything about it i´ll post it.

^^ Look at post 43 in this thread for information about Herning Centret;) Actually it won't be the largest in Jutland, but atleast in the middle part of Jutland (Both Bruuns Galleri in Århus and Kolding Storcenter are still larger, maybe others too).

Cool with the pics of the handicap center, looking forward to see them. :)

Looking very good - although we only have one rendering I think it looks very good - and to the height I can say nothing but 'GREAT!' :)

didnt saw that ^^

all what ive heard it would be the biggest in jutland but that could be wrong.

Edit: i was sick yesterday so i didnt get the pics :bash:

/\ Yep, it's wrong;) HC will get close to 60 stores when completed, and I know that Bruuns Galleri in Århus has some 90. I think Kolding Storcenter has around 100, not completely sure though.

Small update on the residential building in Sjællandsgade. It's almost completed now, quite ordinary stuff:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/sjaellandsgade1.jpg


Also, there will very soon be construction activity at Fuglsang Sø. The first residentials will start construction within the next few weeks (the ones from post 23).

And here a quick snap of the two 5 storey bank buildings in Dalgasgade. Still working on the foundation/parking floor:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/banker.jpg

beautiful stuff.. thanks for the update :cheers2:

Another update, this one about an area I haven't described before.

The area is known as "Thrigevej" (the central road through the area), and it was until a few years ago mostly an industrial area with some single family houses too. The area is located in the southern part of Herning, and it has always been a bit "cut off" from the rest of Herning, because of the railroad and the "Dronningens Boulevard" which is the busiest street here. A few years ago it was decided to redevelop the area into pure residential, and today some 350 homes has been built, about half of the planned total. There are still some industry left in the most southern part, but this will all soon be gone. In that part five 8 storey buildings and two 10 storey buildings are allowed in the masterplan, but there are no designs yet, since this is the last part to be redeveloped.

The sky was for once nice and blue today, so I decied to take a walk (...though it was coll as h...:D ).

On with the pics, first a bunch of the new residential buildings:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej01.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej02.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej03.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej04.jpg

No longer single family houses:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej05.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej06.jpg

One of the only "non-industrial" companies in the area. This also happens to be where I work at the moment:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej07.jpg

Construction of more buildings has just started:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej08.jpg

Moving into the southern part, here we still have industry:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej09.jpg

One the other side of the street there's one of these old typical water, ehr things, used if there's a fire:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej10.jpg

..will probably soon be replaced with this new model:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej11.jpg

Another construction site. Some old building was just torn down. I have no idea exactly what they're going to build here:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej12.jpg

But probably something a bit similar to this on the other side of the street (which is the "main" street through the area):
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej13.jpg

Other new smaller buildings:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej14.jpg

And finally a new street lamp:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej15.jpg

...time to get home, as it was getting too cold:clown:

I think the area will turn out quite nice when all done, but at the moment it's a bit chaotic with constant construction.

Awesome ... fantastic... amazing... incredible... etc.. etc... :D Seriously im obsessed with your photos :cheers2:

nice updates :cheers:

How do you do that ? How do you get such colours ?

Your photos are awesome - to be honest I look in these threads for the photos and not the projects. :D

Give me a holler if you're planning on getting rid of your EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens. 17-40, 50 and 70-300 seem to be enough! :D ;)

What do you think of the 28-135 lens anyway? Can I see some sample photos?
Maybe I should take this in another thread...

@ _keen_: Well, I just got a new lens which has really great colors, but of course some post processing has also been done. A thing like "selective color" in photoshop can help boost the colors a bit (beside form Levels and Curves and such). :)

@ The rest:D : Thanx a lot. I feel I'm running out of things to shoot here in Herning, since I've photgraphed pretty much all buildings here. Need to start travelling more. :)

@ Staff: I sent you a PM.

Finally managed to find some renderings for one of the other loosing projects for the new art museum. I really liked this one too, it's from 3 x Nielsen:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/3xn1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/3xn2.jpg
(both © 3 x Nielsen)


EDIT:

And here's yet another of the losing ones, this is from Keith Williams Architects (UK):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kw1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kw2.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kw3.jpg

I wish all of these could be build:D

I wish all of these could be build:D
haha.. same here.. the first 1 looks weird, but in a artistic way. I like it :)

Found another (very) small rendering of the proposed highrise, this one from another angle. It looks like it will be "open" at the top.

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/dgi1.jpg
(© Kobra Arkitekter A/S)

[QUOTE=mlm]Found another (very) small rendering of the proposed highrise, this one from another angle. It looks like it will be "open" at the top.

The text next to the top of the highrise is difficult to read, but I think it says "26. etage Taghave" = "26th floor roof garden".

regards,
Kristoffer Mogensen

/\ I could only get the "26. etage(r)" myself, but I think you're absolutely right.

So looks like a total of 27 floors if the roof garden is included. Not bad at all. :)

Today there's an article in local paper about the highrise. It says the city council has decided to cut a few floors, and go with something like "about 20 floors" in the first hearing (there will first be a hearing with some debate meetings, then a real "lokalplan" is made, which also have to go through some weeks of "hearing" time). The papers sais it's done to avoid too many negative comments on the height. Of course I'll still rather have 20 floors than nothing, but it still sucks. Nothing is decided yet though, sounds like the height can still change.

I've just written to the citycoucil to let them know what I think.

^^ Go, mlm! :rock: Was there any explanation why they cut the height?

Here's "explanation" from the mayor (in Danish):

"- Jeg er bange for, at hvis vi skriver 26 etager, kan det risikere at forplumre hele debatten. Der er meget andet og godt i det projekt end lige højhuset, siger borgmester Lars Krarup (V)."

And from one of the other guys in the city council:

"- Jeg mener, at vi skal skrive 20 etager, for vi vil under ingen omstændigheder lægge os fast på noget, inden borgerne er hørt, siger Finn Stengel Petersen."

There are also some of them that think it should stay 26 floors though.

There are also some of them that think it should stay 26 floors though
Cheers to them :cheers2:

I hope it stays 26 floors... a 20-storey building would still be nice like u said, but still.. the taller the better!

Mlm, have you read Herning Folkeblad today? I just read on their website, that C.C. Contractor in Herning wants to build a new 15.000 - 16.000 sqm Highrise in Birk.
I don't live in the Herning area at the moment so I don't recieve the newspaper. Do you know more about the project?

I was just about to write about that. I'm still at work so I haven't seen all of the article yet, but I heard in the news (radio) that Steven Holl also will be the designer of this building. I haven't heard anything about a "highrise" though, just a commercial "etagebyggeri" (multistory building). I though something like 3-4 floors, but I could be wrong (and surely hope it;)). On the radio they said it is supposed to be home to some 6-8 companies, and that it's going to be located next to the new art museum, facing the new motorway.

I'll see if I can find more....

I've read the article now, not that much more than I wrote before. They don't write anything about the height, probably because nobody has seen the design yet. 3 Persons are in USA right now to meet Steven Holl, one of them to discusse the Art Museum, and 2 from C.C. Contractor to "see the first drawings" of this new building, and talk with Mr. Holl. Appeartly he has been given "free hands", so it will be very exhiting to see what we'll get. I'm hoping for something SPECTACULAR:D

The few known facts until now:

Architect: Steven Holl
Developer/contractor: C.C. Contractor
Size: 16.000 m2
Completion expected: Late 2007
Type: Commercial (Home to 6 or 7 companies)
Location: Between the planned Art Museum and the motorway

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Also a little update on the "Fuglsang Sø" residential projects. Construction of the first ones have now started, and there seems to be a huge interest for these buildings. In the first stage about 117 homes are build, and there are expected to be some 500 in all in the area. Yesterday there was an information meeting about the first stage and 550 interested people showed up! 10 of the homes will cost from 4,2 million dkr (some 560.000 €) each, which is quite expensive here in Herning, and the realestate agent told they might have to make a draw to decide who will get them. Quite amazing with these prices. This huge interest could also mean that the next stages will start faster than planned. :)

I've read the article now, not that much more than I wrote before. They don't write anything about the height, probably because nobody has seen the design yet. 3 Persons are in USA right now to meet Steven Holl, one of them to discusse the Art Museum, and 2 from C.C. Contractor to "see the first drawings" of this new building, and talk with Mr. Holl. Appeartly he has been given "free hands", so it will be very exhiting to see what we'll get. I'm hoping for something SPECTACULAR:D

The few known facts until now:

Architect: Steven Holl
Developer/contractor: C.C. Contractor
Size: 16.000 m2
Completion expected: Late 2007
Type: Commercial (Home to 6 or 7 companies)
Location: Between the planned Art Museum and the motorway

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Also a little update on the "Fuglsang Sø" residential projects. Construction of the first ones have now started, and there seems to be a huge interest for these buildings. In the first stage about 117 homes are build, and there are expected to be some 500 in all in the area. Yesterday there was an information meeting about the first stage and 550 interested people showed up! 10 of the homes will cost from 4,2 million dkr (some 560.000 €) each, which is quite expensive here in Herning, and the realestate agent told they might have to make a draw to decide who will get them. Quite amazing with these prices. This huge interest could also mean that the next stages will start faster than planned. :)
Good/Interesting news :yes: Thanks for the update.

Another small update, this one with some smaller commercial projects:

First we have a new domicil for a IT company called Concept Data. Construction started a few months ago. It's located in Tjørring, not so far from the Fuglsang Sø:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/nyt-conceptdata.jpg
(© Kobra Arkitekter A/S)

Next a new building for a "spicy" company called "AVO Scandinavia". It'll be located in the commercial/industrial park "HI Parken" between Herning and neighboring town, Ikast (on the Herning side). Construction started today:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/nyt-kryderi.jpg
(© CC Contractor)

And finally a new "business center" for TDC. It'll be located on "Dronningens Boulevard", just where the Århus-Herning motorway hits Herning. Next to this site more commercial buildings are planned, the localplans allow for a 8 storey building, and some 3-4 storey buildings. Futher down "Dronningens Boulevard" we have the new banks buildings currenty UC, and also a new residential project is about to go UC very soon (no renderings yet). Not sure when construction of the TDC center will start:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/nyt-tdc.jpg
(© Herning Kommune)

so.... short... i.... can't... take it.... any more.... ;) just kidding. They're pretty nice.. nothing special, but still nice :)

so.... short... i.... can't... take it.... any more.... ;)That we can surely agree on;)

I've made a map to show the locations of the larger projects here:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/projectmap.jpg
(original map © Herning Kommune)

Thanx for the map, mlm. You sure do a lot of "waterconstruction" in Herning these days! :D

Can't wait to see if the Holl project turns out to be another highrise. If they have given him free hands, I think there is a good chance...!

The company I work for makes a weekly magazine (in 52.000 copies). Normally I take photos for most articles in the magazine, mostly portraits and stuff like that. Now one of the editors have given me 6 full pages over 6 weeks to show the architecture of Herning with my photos. I have "free hands", and can decide myslef what I want on the pages. I've decided to make 6 different catagories, with 4 buildings in each. The first bunch of buildings will be in the paper in a few weeks, and I've choosen Historical Buildings as the first subject. Here are the 4 photos that will be included in the first week:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Historiske-Hedebanken.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Historiske-HotelEyde.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Historiske-Herningsholm.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Historiske-Tinghuset.jpg


In the weeks after that the subjucts will be Churches (one sample):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Kirker-Baunekirken.jpg

Buildings with Towers (one sample):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Taarne-Ankerhus.jpg

Tall Buildings/Highrises (no photos yet)

Modern Buildings (no photos yet)

And finally Future/Comming Buildings which will include 4 renderings.

Each building will be presentated with a small factbox with architect, year built etc.

Quite an interesting assignment I must say. :)

^^ Interesting indeed! Let's hope you can make the Herning-people more interested in architecture, which doesn't seem to be any problem with your excellent photo-skills :) I must say we have way too few architecture-articles in our newpapers up here. Good luck with your project!

That defidentally looks like an interesting and fun assignment! Congratulations! :cheers2:

I also agree with AtlanticaC5.. it shouldnt be a problem getting people interested in architecture, especially not the way you're showing them.

Hope you keep us updated on what other photos will be included!

Cheers, :cheers:

/\ I'll try to keep you updated. :)

Nothing is decided yet, so I might replace these with new photos. I have 5 Churches, so I have to exclude one of them. It'll probably be the white boxy one (a quite new one), since it's butt ugly, but then again, it would be good to have 4 from different time periods. You've seen one of the Churches, here are the 4 other "candidates":

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Kirker-HerningKirke.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Kirker-GjellerupKirke.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Kirker-SctJohannesKirke.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Kirker-GullestrupKirke.jpg

And for the highrises I might use this old one. Or maybe I'll see if I can get to the top of the 7 storey building in the background and get it from another angle:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Hojhuse-Codanhus.jpg

I'll keep you updated...:)

/\ awesome! I really like the first pic! (the night shot) but they're all really good..

Or maybe I'll see if I can get to the top of the 7 storey building in the background and get it from another angle
Sorry to change the topic a bit, but "how do you do that?" How do you get to go ontop of a highrise and take photos? I'm going to Toronto this thursday, and i thought about maybe going into a random highrise to see if i could borrow a window from the 40th floor (or something like that) to take some pictures out of, or maybe i could even see if i could get all the way to the top of the building, on the roof, and take pictures from there... but how would you do that? What would you say? Who would you talk to, etc etc..?

Thanks for whatever explainations you can give me! :cheers2:

/\ Basicly I would just walk into the building and just say something like: "Hi, I'm from (name of the newspaper), and I need a photo of Codanhus (in this case). Would there be any change of me going to the top of your building to photograph it?".

As long as youre polite there's a good change of getting permission. Though I would guess it could be harder with really tall buildings, the security seems to rise with the height. But it never hurts to ask.

/\ thanks! I guess it would be a bit harder for me since i dont work for any paper or anything.. but i could always just try anyways, and say i'm an amateur, or that i just work for myself.. :dunno: .. like you said it doesnt hurt to try.

Cheers, :cheers2:

^ Never wrong with asking, I've done that and I've been up on the un-touristy roofs of 2 highrises in Sweden (not any 40-storey buildings though :D More like 40 m ;)) You have nothing to loose

Right now a building in the pedestrian street are being torn down, to be replaced with another. This morning something happend that wasn't supposed to happen. By acciden't the demolishion company hit the wall of the building next to the one they are taking down, resulting in a big hole in someones living room:D

I just happend to walk by on my way home from work, and took a few snapshots:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/whoops1.jpg

And a closer look from the other side:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/whoops2.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/whoops3.jpg

I guess a WHOOPS would be in place:D

Holy f***! I wouldn't like to be inside that building when the hole was made. Looks very much like a cartoonish demolition made hole. Was Donald Duck the operator? :nuts:

Wow! The operator must have been drunk or something... you dont just go, as a professional demolisher (or whatever u call them), and make a mistake like that (not when you're sober anyways).. hehe..

Nice photos!

I guess a good old "D'OH!" would be in place here :D

Thanx for the map, mlm. You sure do a lot of "waterconstruction" in Herning these days! :D

well they need sand for the motorway so why not build some lakes

Just a few more of the photos for "my" article:

First the old Herning Højskole highrise. Badly needs a renovation:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Hojhuse-Hoejskolen.jpg


And the 2. building is from the "Modern" section. It's a building called BIRC Estate (http://www.birc-estate.dk/) (Birk Innovation & Research Centre). It's located in Birk just outside Herning, this is the area where also the Elia Sculpture, The art Museums, The new Steven Holl buildings, HIH and TEKO (schools) are located. This building is used by a lot of small new "innovation" companies, and they are about to build a second stage. Actually there's ground breaking this comming monday. The new section (4600m2) will be a bit smaller than the original one (5200m2), but the look will be quite similar. I'm pretty sure they'll be connected through a glass atrium or something. In the masterplan for the area there are room for 5 stages, so this could turn out quite large in the future. The current building is totally full, at the moment with 20 different companies, so this new 42 million dkr extension is badly needed.

Here are 2 photos, both show the backside of the building where the extension will be. Not sure if I'll use any of these 2 though, or try to get it from the front:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Moderne-BIRC2.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Moderne-BIRC1.jpg

Badly needs a renovation
I think a better idea would be to completely tare it down and start all over! That's got to be the ugliest "highrise" i've ever seen... like Mr_Denmark said earlier, it's buildings like these that create NIMBYs!!!

The other building/photo is nice. :okay:

Actually I don't think anyone here mind the highrise. It's quite compact in size, only some 8 meters (if I remember correctly), on the small side. Sure, the design is no beauty, but I think a re-cladding could do the job. Maybe give it a simple white facade, like most of the buildings in "Birk", that could give it a bit more modern look.

The building is actually a bit iconic here, or maybe rather the idea of it. It was build in the early 60s by some rich local businessmen (belive it or not), and was among the first highrises in Jutland. It was build more to show what was possible at that time, rather than just to store the masses like all the public houseing highrises from the same period.

Today it is actually stamped as "preservable" (bevaringsværdig), but serious money problems for the school has resulted in the current situation. The students at the school live in the highrise, and the apartments on the top floor are designed by Asger Jorn.

Bottomline is that that it's current condition is really bad, and something needs to be done. Personally I'm hoping for a major renovation. :)

Here's another photo of it:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/Hojskolen.jpg

And the same, reclad with the facade of the BIRC building:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/Hojskolen-reclad.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2057/2306/1600/Hojhuse-Hoejskolen%20kopi.jpg

:eek2:

Perfect:rofl:

Why not just go all the way:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/Hojskolen-tele.jpg

^^ :rofl:

A few more for the newspaper, taken today. 2 First are from the "Modern/New buildings":

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Moderne-Dalgashus.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Moderne-DrBoulevard.jpg


And one for the "tall buildings/highrises":

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vermoe/Hojhuse-Scandic.jpg

i dont remember it was so sunny yesterday. but great pics anyway

yay teletubbies : D

i dont remember it was so sunny yesterday. but great pics anywayMost of the day it wasn't. When I went out at 16:00, there was still a lot of skies, but they disappeared in 20-30 min. :)

Great photos as usual :)

Small update with a few residential projects:

First one in central part of Herning, Fonnesbechsgade 16, where this old monster now (finally) has been demolished:

http://www.herningshuse.dk/billeder/57_1.jpg

To be replaced with this one:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fonnesbechsgade16.jpg
(© Nykredit)


And someone may remember this photo from earlier in the thread, from the "new" residential area in southern part of Herning:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/thrigesvej12.jpg

Construction are going quite fast there. The final result will be something like this:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/Tietgensgade7-1.jpg
(© Arkitektfirmaet Søren Jensen A/S)

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/Tietgensgade7-2.jpg
(© Arkitektfirmaet Søren Jensen A/S)

/\ Nice! Very nice IMO .. about time they took down that old ugly "monster".. buildings like that shouldnt even exist :tongue3:

Yeah, though the new one is just a quite ordinary residential building (but still quite nice IMO), it is surely tons better than "the old monster". I was glad to see this the other day when passing by:

http://www.herningshuse.dk/billeder/57_2.jpg

That was probably also the building I mostly wanted to see demolished within the "cityring" area (the area covered on my website (http://www.herningshuse.dk/)). :)

Clap, clap, clap...

That was my reaction when a guy suggested to add 10 floors on top of the proposed 20 for the new highrise here. I was the only one that clapped my hands(:D), but the overall impression from tonights hearing meeting is very good. Some 100-200 people was at the meeting, and there was "discussion" for about an hour or so. The majority of the questions/comments were very good, and only a few mentioned the highrise negative. Even one of the people with most critique about the project suggested to build 2 highrises instead of one. He wanted to turn up the planned vertical hotel part (which will be one meter from his balcony), and build it as a 2nd highrise next to the other one.

Most discussion was actually about parking problems related to the new complex, and a lot of time was used discussing different options.

The renderings shown earlier in this thread are still in an early fase, so they will be changed. If all time plans are hold, they expect they can start building about this time next year.

Now I'll write yet another e-mail with good suggestions why they need to go taller than 20 floors. :)

^^ Hehe, go mlm! :D
Sounds good with the initial reactions to the proposed highrise.

Hehe:) I just finished my, rather long, 2nd e-mail. Here we go, should anyone care (I don't bother to translate it):
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Hermed lige en opfølgning på en tidligere mail, samt borgermødet ang. DGI projektet.

Var glad for at der på borgermødet var mange positive kommentarer ang. projektet, og højhuset i særdeleshed (Da det har min store interesse). Af ændringer i forhold til de første udkast, kunne jeg godt tænke mig at se:

Den aflange hotelbygning bliver sløjfet i dens nuværende form. På Kampmannsgade bygges en bygning i samme højde som de nuværende bygninger (ca. 4-5 etager), og bygningen skal på bagsiden, mod DGI Centret, ikke gå længere bagud end de nuværende byggerier. Den nye bygningen mod Kampmannsgade kan indeholde boliger, samt muligvis en indgang til DGI Centret og hotellet i stueetagen (med adgang via tunnel fra kongrescentret). På bagsiden forbindes bygningen så via en 1 eller 2 etagers korridor/gang med selve DGI Centret. På denne måde tilgodeses borgerne der i dag bor der, så de ikke får deres udsigt mod vest ”ødelagt” nær så meget. Hotellet bliver flyttet over i højhuset, der får ca. 30 etager, gerne i endnu slankere form end de første skitser. Slanke højhuse har nu altid været langt flottere end ”brede”. Hotellet har hjemme på etage 1-15, på de næste 14 er der boliger, på øverste etage har vi restauranten ”Himmelen”, og på toppen udsigtsbalkonen, hvorfra man kan se hele byen, alle vores flotte nye søer, og på en klar dag til Karup i nord(-øst) til Brande i syd.

Og nu det måske lidt mere problematiske ang. parkeringen:

Som jeg forstår de nuværende planer, er det kun meningen der skal være parkering kælder under selve det nye byggeri. Jeg foreslår at man i stedet graver hele Nørregades P-plads op, og bygger under hele arealet. Og stadig i mindst 3 etagers dybde, gerne flere hvis forholdene tillader det. Hellere for mange p-pladser end for få, også selvom det selvfølgeligt ville være bedre hvis folk cyklede eller gik. Det er desværre bare ikke realistisk. Over jorden igen: På de 2 nordvendte p-pladser anlægges en ny bypark, og på arealet vest for DGI Centret bygges boliger (som det vist allerede er planlagt), med butikker og caféer i stueplan. Stykket af Smedegade mellem Østergade og Nygade lukkes for biler, og laves om til gå/cykel gade, ligesom Østergade. Ja måske også et lille torv/plads på det midterste stykke af den nye gågade, lige ud for indgangen til DGI Centret.

Adgangen til P-kælderen (med masser af plads, også til alle kongrescentrets gæster, der i dag har svært ved at finde et sted at parkere), foregår via en tunnel. Denne tunnel skal ligge under Smedegade, der graves op, og derefter igen anlægges oven på tunnelen. Indkørslen skal enten være fra banegårdspladsen (der alligevel skal laves om), eller endnu bedre, via Dronningens Boulevard, hvis det da ellers er muligt at komme i gennem under Banegårdscentret. Det ville være at foretrække at der kun er denne ene vej til parkerings kælderen, da dette ville lette den forventede mer-trafik omkring DGI Centret meget kraftigt. Selvom det er hele planen at få skabt mere liv i midtbyen, behøver vi jo ikke have masser af biler der. Selvfølgelig en noget dyrere løsning end hvad der bliver lagt op til nu, men også langt langt mere fremtidssikret og visionært i mine øjne.

I forhold til de nuværende oplæg giver mit forsalg:

1 - Forbedring af selve DGI Projektet, pga. mindre gener for naboerne og en i mine øjne langt bedre løsning med hotel og boliger samlet i højhuset.

2 - Ny Bypark

3 - Ny Gågade med en Plads/et Torv

4 - Mange flere parkerings pladser

5 - Færre biler i området (over jorden)

Det der taler i mod er selvfølgelig den større omkostning ved at skulle anlægge tunnelen, men hvis ikke det skulle kunne lade sig gøre i Herning, hvor skulle det så – Her er alle muligheder åbne!

Med Venlig Hilsen,
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(contact info removed)

And the small map I attached:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/dgivisionmlm.jpg

Awesome! :cheers2:

The idea of a 30+ storey highrise (which can almost be considered a skyscraper :D) right in the middle of Herning sounds really awesome! Let's hope they keep it on the "right" track...
That must have felt pretty awkward for you to be the only one clapping for the suggestion of adding 10 floors to the highrises :lol: .. Cheers to you for doing that! :cheers2: Our pro-highrise voices need to be heard!

Good work, mlm. Keep it up!!! :okay:

Very Cool website mlm...

Is that your private website?

Thanx EDK_DK, yes it's my private website. I made it last spring/summer (was unemployed, had lots of time on my hands). I would really like to expand the site with new options, and have a lot good ideas, but not so much time at the moment. Right now I just add a few new buildings and photos, when I have a some time off. :)

Why not just go all the way:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/Hojskolen-tele.jpg OMG that's awesome! :lol:


BTW awesome site, it must have taken forever to make!

/\ Thanx, yes it has taken quite some time. Taking photos of the 350 buildings I started out with, in as good light as possible, took a bunch of sunny days, and then also a lot of research to find all the information. But I had fun doing it. :)
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Yesterday the first of my series of building photos was in the magazine. Here's a shot of the page:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/avisside.jpg

wow! did you make the illustration also? still very impressive!

Nope, didn't make the illustration, it was made by another guy at work (based on my photos). :)

Awesome! :cheers:

H2PIA - World's first hydrogen city (http://www.h2pia.dk)...

...was presented in Herning Today. First of all, it's not sure this will be build in Herning. It's not sure it will be build at all. But since there's a lot of Hydrogen research here, and the plans were presented here, I'd say there's a good chance Herning could be the location for this "World's first hydrogen city". Also, in "Deadline" on Danish DR2, they said that there are plans to build the first house in Herning in 2 years or so.

Basicly this "H2PIA" is a small city (town) where hydrogen are used for everything. From fuel for the cars to heating the houses.

There's a lot of info in their brochure, which can be found here (http://www.h2pia.dk/com/h2pia/materials/H2PIA_Brochure_ENG.pdf) (pdf document).

Some renderings of H2PIA (this is probably just some ideas of how it could look, and surely nothing final):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/h2pia/1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/h2pia/2.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/h2pia/3.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/h2pia/4.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/h2pia/5.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/h2pia/6.jpg

Welcome to the future.

Yesterday the first of my series of building photos was in the magazine. Here's a shot of the page:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/avisside.jpgNext 3 are now also published, now we only need "Modern" and the renderings of future buildings.

Normally we don't get much feedback from readers (if there are any:D), but the last days, 2 have callen about these building pages. One wanted a copy of the first one (the one with historical buildings), and the other wanted us to publish all 6 in a bruchure and publish it. Nice to know that atleast a few people find it interesting. :)

Here are the "Churches", "Towers" and "Highrises":

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/avisside2.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/avisside3.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/avisside4.jpg
(Doh, there's an error in the construction year of the Scandic Hotel, though only 3 years. Damn those wrong sources.)

hmm that church in Gjellerup really reminds me of the old church here in Tjørring...

BTW cool pics :)

One wanted a copy of the first one (the one with historical buildings), and the other wanted us to publish all 6 in a bruchure and publish it
That's pretty cool!

They are now starting to build the first apartments at fuglsang sø.:cheers: At the handicap center in Tjørring they are finally over ground level. maybe i go take some pics tomorow in this great weather :cheers:

/\ That would be cool. :) I was out there about a month ago, and only the foundation of the first apartments were ready.

The 2 new banks in Dalgasgade are also growing fast. The "Finanscenter" is now full height (5 floors) and Vestjysk Bank is currently 3 floors with two to go. The finanscenter looks quite massive. I'll try to get some photos of those the next days. :)

^^some pretty cool houses in the hydro city. I wouldnt mind living in one of those...

/\ That would be cool. :) I was out there about a month ago, and only the foundation of the first apartments were ready.

The 2 new banks in Dalgasgade are also growing fast. The "Finanscenter" is now full height (5 floors) and Vestjysk Bank is currently 3 floors with two to go. The finanscenter looks quite massive. I'll try to get some photos of those the next days. :)

Yea the banks look alot bigger than i thought :cheers:

Just a small update on the DGI/Highrise proposal. The first hearing period are over, and the next phase is getting a localplan made. The county also want to make a VVS report because the project is so large, but it will probably be possible to make it at the same time as the localplan, so things aren't slowed down.

Of all the reaction they have gotten during the 2 month hearing time, is only 2 negative about the highrise. One person want to build max 6 floors, and another wants some "normal" buildings instead (3-5 floors). The people living just next to the site, proposes that the hotel is build as a 2nd tower, instead of long vertical one first proposed. Others (like myself) have proposed that the highrises should be taller and include both the hotel and the residential part. The politicians say they are open to all good sugestions, and sounds very possive about the height. :)

I even talked with a man from the city council today, because they found my proposal (from post 136 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=7727261&postcount=136)) interesting. More on that later...

The biggest problem at the moment seems to be the parking spaces, or lack of them. As it looks right now, the 3 proposed underground parking floors are not enough, and will create heavy traffic in the area.

If everything go smooth, construction could start around Jan 1st, 2007 or maybe a bit later. :)

oh please oh pleaaaaaaaaaseee tell me what you said in that post! (which that man from the city council found interesting)

The very short version is that I propose these changes:
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30 storey highrise instead of 20 (Hotel has been included in the residential highrise, and the vertical hotel dropped)

Much larger parking garage (on a larger area where we have over ground parking today)

A roughly 500 m tunnel to the parking garage as the only entrance for cars (will place the entrance much close to a big road that can handle all the traffic)

A new citypark (where we have some overground parking places today)

A new ~100 m pedestrian street outside the DGI Center

Some residential buildings across the street from the DGI Center
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Tough I can live with 2 towers instead of one (Tornimäe'ish, maybe in a smaller version? :) )

sounds nice! Thanks for taking the time.
A 500m tunnel will be ticky, the extra cost may prove enourmous!Parks are usually very welcomed by the city residence :)
Sounds nice :)

Hope they implement it somehow :D

Yes that tunnel would be very expensive, though it helps to reduce the cost that it will be situated directly under another road (most part of it atleast).

He actually mentioned the tunnel, and said that maybe it wouldn't happen this time, but it was "fresh" ideas like that they were glad to hear.

One person want to build max 6 floors, and another wants some "normal" buildings instead (3-5 floors).
:bash: :bash: :bash: :bash:

I desperately hope that they choose/use your proposol! It just makes so much more sence building 1 tall building rather than 2-3 smaller ones. :)

/\ You have to look at this with possitive eyes. Only TWO complaints about a proposed highrise in Denmark is not everyday stuff;)

I also don't think the new proposal with the hotel as a highrise will have any affect on the height of the proposed residential highrise. So instead of one flat hotel (6-7 floors) and a 20 storey residential highrise, we could end up with a 20 storey hotel and a 20 storey residential building. Not a bad trade if you ask me. :)

But again, everything is still open at up for debate.

I've just made a new Herning panorama. It's taken from the powerplant, which is located close to the new motorway intersection, which will open in october this year. You can also see 2 of the new lakes that are made, thoug the one most to the right is much larger than what you can see here. Click this small version for a larger one:

(Click it for the large version)
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/herningpanoramalille.jpg (http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/herningpanoramastor.jpg)

:)

:okay:

Is that the new "Fuglsang Sø" in the front?

http://www.llgruppen.dk/side3336.html

Nope, that is the "Kraftværkssøen", it's the smallest of the new lakes. Fuglsang Sø is not close to the motorway, so you can't see it here. It's pretty much on the opposite side of central Herning.

The lake you see to the right is the new "Knudmose Sø", it will have both a beach and some watersport activities when opened later this year. Here's another shot from today, showing that lake:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/knudmosesoe.jpg

As promissed earlier, here's a little quick update on the 2 new banks currently under construction. They have now just started adding the windows on the Finanscenter building:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bankupdate01.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bankupdate02.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bankupdate03.jpg

Lookin good :) Thanks for the update!

I looks promissing with the progress of the tower, but sad that it dropped back down to 20 floors.
Anyway, it's also fine with me if they'll go for TWO 20 floor towers instead :D

A new pano from the other day, showing Fuglsang Sø. The first buildings on the western side now starts to show. In a few years there will be some 500 homes there:

(Click to enlarge)
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsangpanolille.jpg (http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsangpanostor.jpg)

/\ looks like such a beautiful area :)

A new pano from the other day, showing Fuglsang Sø.

Thanks mlm,

that's the project I read/talked about earlier.

I'll visit Herning - again - later this summer (messecenteret), so
perhaps I ought to take the time to check out some of the new project you have presented in this thread...

Of course we all hope that "Silkeborg" sooner or later are able to make a decision about the new "expressway" through the city.. Imagine driving from Aarhus-Silkeborg-Ikast-Herning in only 45 minutes...that would be a major improvement..not only for Herning, but the hole area as well (midtjylland)

Of course we all hope that "Silkeborg" sooner or later are able to make a decision about the new "expressway" through the city.. Imagine driving from Aarhus-Silkeborg-Ikast-Herning in only 45 minutes...that would be a major improvement..not only for Herning, but the hole area as well (midtjylland)Yeah, Silkeborg is really a bottleneck as it is now, atleast in the rushhour. Let's hope they'll make a decision this year, otherwise the timescale is just too long. I've heard some talk about it being ready in 2015 if they decide soon. How on earth can it take that long:clown:

Well atleast most of the new motorway/motortrafficway ring around Herning will open this year. It will happen on October 7th, just about the same time as the new Herning Center extension is ready, and probably also the new 15000 m2 Bauhaus. :)

I've heard some talk about it being ready in 2015 if they decide soon. How on earth can it take that long

The new expressway "Søften - Skødstrup" (14 km) started construction in marts 2005 and is supposed to open in 2008. (3-4 years)

Take the virtually tour here: (12mb)
http://www.aaa.dk/aaa/vt-soeftenskoedstrup-flyvetur-640x480.mpg

I'm quite sure they will end up with the Resenbro solution through the Gudenaa valley regarding Silkeborg. This means the road probably has to be build on "pillars" which will make the construction time longer than normally.

Ok I don't think we have anything to complain about in Denmark..Just imagine how much more difficult the same distance would be to build in Oslo or Norway in general.

BTW, what's the correct word for "Motorvej" in english?

Cool video:okay:

True, it will of course take longer because of the landscape. They have also started planning the Bording-Funder part, and it won't open before 2012 for the same reasons.

They have also decided what line they are building from Riis-Vejle now, you can find a virtual tour here (half way down the page, choose "Brun Linje"): http://www.vejdirektoratet.dk/dokumentniveau.asp?page=document&objno=86316

I think the most used word for our type of "motorveje" would simply just be "motorway". :)

Talking about the new motorway and lakes, here we have another pano from today. It is taken just east of Herning on a new bike/walking bridge crossing the motorway. There is also yet another new lake, though I don't think this one will have any use. I don't think it has a name either, so it's probably just for rainwater or something (although it quite large if that's the only purpose).

(Click to enlarge)
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bropanolille.jpg (http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bropanostor.jpg)

Time for a little update, mostly about the Fuglsang Sø construction.
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First something else though. I found out the new Steven Holl office building will be only 4 floors, so no highrise there. Not that I though it would be anyway. The cost for the ~16.000 m2 building will be some 200 million dkr (~27 million €). It is expected to be ready late 2007.
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Back to Fuglsang Sø, where construction has started for 2 of the 4 planned projects, and soon the last 2 will follow. First we have the 5 buildings with five apartments in each. The have grown quite fast, but of course they aren't that tall:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsangupdate01.jpg

They'll be quite close to a little canal leading to Fuglsang Sø:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsangupdate02.jpg

Construction has just started on the 5 doublehouses, not much to see yet though. These are the most expensive ones in the fisrt stage, and will be located very close to the lakefront:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsangupdate03.jpg


Lakefront "construction" is also underway:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsangupdate04.jpg

Here we have a scarfolding tower, made so you can check out the view from the 5 storey "Søfronten" which also will be UC very soon:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsangupdate05.jpg

This is the view from the top. On the right side there will be another four 5 storey buildings. Quite nice view from there, even though it's only 5 floors:

(Click for the large version)
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/panorama4lille.jpg (http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/panorama4.jpg)

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And finally a "bonus" photo from this morning of the 2 new banks. Not that much has happend on the outside since my last photos, I think they're doing a lot of work inside at the moment. The have started to add the stonefacade on one of the buildings though, but it can't be seen here. I'll take a photo of it when more is up:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bankupdate04.jpg

That's it for now...:)

Interesting! I've never seen such a scaffolding tower before offering views, but that's kinda smart :)

Great pictures again mlm. I always look forward to seeing your updates. :)

How is the expansion of Herning Centret going?

The Herning Centret expansion is on track, and maybe even a bit ahead. I'm going out there tomorrow, I'll see if I have time to take a photo. :)

Very nice! Thanks a lot for yet another update :cheers2:

"Fuglsang sø" is a great project. There is a lot going on in Herning at the moment.. unlike Randers where absolute nothing happens

when will the project, with the new rowing stadium in the other lake "Holing sø", begin. Will there be build residential around Holing sø as well as Fuglsang Sø?

First the promissed photo of the Herning Center expansion, just a quick snap from this morning:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/herningcentret.jpg

When will the project, with the new rowing stadium in the other lake "Holing sø", begin. Will there be build residential around Holing sø as well as Fuglsang Sø?I heard some time ago that they already had begun, but it dosn't look like much has been made when you look out there. Actually I haven't heard much lately, but I hope they'll begin (for real) soon.
I think they want to build residential there too, and there have also been some talk about a new golfcourse. I found this old map on the Ringkøbing Amt website, it is from before Fuglsang Sø were made, cause it doesn't look like on this map. I think all the pink areas are new residential areas, a few of them have already been built now. (Fuglsang Sø is the lower one, Holing Sø the long one):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/holingso.jpg
(© Ringkøbing Amt)

I found the map in this pdf file (http://www.ringamt.dk/Internet/Arkiv/WebDags.nsf/bf22d0e581810f82c1256a22002814bd/9f71454ffeec837a41256b83003e194d/$FILE/250302pkt11b1.pdf), there is also more information (not sure how up to date it is though).


EDIT: After reading some plans, it looks like they wont start with Holing Sø before 2008. The size will be ~48 ha, which is pretty much the double of Fuglsang Sø.

Close to the Herning Center we have the construction site of Bauhaus. It will be just next to the new motorway, and it be 15.000 m2. Construction was started just 3-4 weeks ago, so it's going quite fast. I think they plan to open just about the same time as the Herning Center Expansion and the new motorway (start of October).

Tonights pano:

(Click for the large version)
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bauhauspanolille.jpg (http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bauhauspano.jpg)

After a long and silent summer, there's finally some news about the DGI project. A "VVM undersøgelse" has been made, and a plan from the county (Ringkøbing Amt) will be in hearing for the next 2 months or so. After that a local plan will have to go through the same process. The mayor, Lars Krarup, says today to the local paper that they might start building around christmas if things go as planned. The 72 page long VVM undersøgelse (english anyone?:D) can be found here, should anyone want to see it. It includes some renderings: Right here (http://www.ringamt.dk/internet/RADAOS.nsf/bb0e9d617fab1228c1256dc00027429f/8bc334466d984ae3c12571be00245093/$FILE/VVM-redeg%C3%B8relse%20for%20DGI-by%20ved%20N%C3%B8rregade%20i%20Herning.pdf)

Some other small news: The private hospital here wants to build a new home for themselves (Privathospitalet Dalgas). It'll be located in Birk Centerpark, just next to the new Steven Holl designed Art Museum. They expect it to be ready in late 2007, the same time as the new museum. It'll just be a 1400 m2 white two storey building, so nothing major. No renderings yet..

Thx for the news:)

Just a small update on whats going on here atm:

Herningcentret opened their new expansion last weekend, and now it has 60 stores. I have visited it, and the new part is okay, but nothing more. The old part of the shopping center is not very nice, but they have plans about a big renovation wihtin the next 5 years.

Today the new roads around Herning was opened. That includes 15 kms of motorway and 10 kms of "motortraffic way" (90 km/h speed limet). The work continues on the remaining part of the motorway to Vejle, and the last part will open in 2012.

Otherwise not much news from here. The localplan hearing for the DGI project (with the 23-24 storey highrise) will end on october 25th, it'll be exhiting to see how that turns out.

Just a small update on the 2 new five storey bank buildings, not very long untill they're completed:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bankupdate05.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bankupdate06.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bankupdate07.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bankupdate08.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bankupdate09.jpg


Here we have the renderings, just for comparisson:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/danskebank.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/danskebank1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/vestjysk.jpg
(all renderings © Kobra Arkitekter A/S)

Wee, yet another highrise proposal for Herning, this time "only" 12 floors though. Haven't seen any renderings yet, but I can see from a meeting at the city hall that they will make a localplan, because someone want to build a 3 and a 12 storey building. The 12 storey building are to supposed to be just behind the black office building on the above rendering, and just to the right of it on this photo (on the corner across the street):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/bankupdate05.jpg

Funny thing is that I have really though that a tower would be great at this location. Now my dream might come though. :)

The buildings that will have to go are all smaller houses (this (http://www.herningshuse.dk/bygning.php?id=338), this (http://www.herningshuse.dk/bygning.php?id=337), this (http://www.herningshuse.dk/bygning.php?id=336) and this (http://www.herningshuse.dk/bygning.php?id=335).)
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Was also a a public meeting about the DGI project tonight, the plans for the 23/24 storey tower still stands, and the localplan will end this wednesday. Though there has been more protests from neighbors about the tower lately, it still sounds like the politicians wants the tower. Let's hope the NIMBYs wont win this round!

Good news indeed :)
12 floors isn't much, but it will still make an impact on the Herning skyline, and hopefully more will follow.
And good that the DGI-byen will soon be decided (fingers crossed). I'm also quite optimistic that it'll go through, and the NIMBY's will be ignored.

Yep good news. I just found out the developer will be local KPC, and they have hired Henning Larsens Tegnestue to design the project. It will consist of a 3 storey base with offices and a 9 storey residential building on top of it, so 12 floors in all. Hopefully they'll come up with something cool. :)

The localplan will "go public" around mid november, and for the following 8 weeks. KPC expects complains about it (like always), but they hope they can start building late next summer. Construction will take around a year.

Nice with more highrises in Herning, its the perfect town for it.
But how is it going with the DGi project??? I have heart there are many complaints about the highrise, from the neighbours.
Buy the way, passed through Herning two weeks ago on the new motorway, it give a nice view over the town*S*

Only the politicians know how it's going with the DGI project now. The hearing period for the localplan ended last wednesday, so now it's up to them to decide. I hope for a final decision soon.

And yes, the motorways gives some new views of Herning, that I have never seen before. :)

I just made a "rendering" from an old photo of mine from a chuch tower. It shows central Herning, with the 2 new highrises. The heights shown are not correct, just my quick guesses. Also no rendering for the middle tower left (the KPC/Herning Larsen one):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/nyskyline.jpg


Codanhus could use a facade renovation if you ask me. There was talk about it some 3-4 years ago, but haven't heard anything about it since. I just digged out an old drawing of how it should have looked. I hope they still have some plans for this, since the white facade is getting quite dirty and ugly:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/codanhussort.jpg

I dropped by the "byplanafdelingen" (nice English:D) today to see the model of the proposed new highrise. The model ain't that detailed, but you get a good idea of the project anyway. The tower part will be quite small with just 2 apartments pr floor, 18 in all (the 3 lower floors are offices). I took a few photos:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kpchojhus1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kpchojhus2.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/kpchojhus3.jpg

The 8 weeks long localplan period for the project started this wednesday, and will end on january 17th. The localplan cen be read HERE (http://www.herning.dk/internet/Lokalpln.nsf/9C6A8A2C90DABB7A412567F200516169/2050F45D0AEDF8C2C125722D0047A190/$FILE/11_C20_2_Lokalplan.pdf) should anyone be interested. :)

Today a new large project was announced. It is a completely new part of Herning, which will have some 800 homes. It'll be build in the next 10-15 years. The architect for the whole project is Henning Larsens Tegnestue.

A bit more about the project on my website (only in Danish): 800 nye boliger i Engholm Søpark (http://www.herningshuse.dk/nyheder.php?nid=4)

Keep it up Herning - and mlm :)

Now we just need to see some construction happening. When in the final approval of the DGI-project scheduled for?

I think they are supposed to make a final decision on dec 19th, when the city council have their last meeting before the municipality reform. But there seems to be some unfinished issues, specially with the traffic and parking situation. Will sure be exciting to see what they end up with.

^^ So that might indicate some possible delays :(

Anyway, nice with the Engholm Søpark project. And with another future highrise there... :)

A little construction update from Fuglsang Sø. The fist people have now moved in to the first project, and 2 others are on their way. It is still very much one big construction site out there, and it probably will be for some years. The area where these first buildings are, will most likely look a lot better in the spring, when grass and tress are added, and the waterfront made.

Here we go:

First 2 shots of the waterfront, which are currently being build:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/01.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/02.jpg

Here we have the 5 "Twinhouses" with 10 units. These go for 4 - 4.5 million Danish kroner each. Will be ready around spring/summer:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/tvillingehuse.jpg
(© Arkitekthuset A/S)

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/03.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/04.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/05.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/06.jpg

Next we have the 5 three storey buildings. They are now completed and people have moved in, though there are still some work to do (problems with the facade for example)

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/punkthuse.jpg
(© Cebra)

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/07.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/08.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/09.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/10.jpg

And the last project UC right now is "Søfronten". A 5 storey building with 64 units. Will be ready around December 2007:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/soefronten.jpg
(© Arkitekthuset A/S)

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/11.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/12.jpg

Reminds very much of Swedish modern architecture! those last renders that is.

Yes the plan is also to make it appear "modern". It will be quite large, only a little part is UC now. I think it will be a really nice area when everything is build up, in some years.

Here's a plan I made, which show the current progress, the red buildings are the projects we have now, all the gray ones will follow:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/fuglsang/plan.jpg

Herning linked together with Birk:
"Entrants are requested to submit an urban scheme that interlinks the town of Herning and Birk across the motorway, while at the same time linking the project area with Birk across the trunk road? The area must contain new hybrids and typologies of housing, retail facilities and small enterprises as well as private and public services. These must be combined with public spaces that can be used for and attract various activities."

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4526/herningdksap2withgraphigf8.jpg
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/7669/herningdksp1withgraphicvz3.jpg

http://www.dac.dk/db/filarkiv/7548/short-file-Herning.pdf

http://www.herning.dk/herning/data.nsf/webDocsByQuickID/sysembeddedpage?opendocument&emburl=/herninggamle/sidste.nsf/iw/C2B700CFCD33C9BEC12572720025CDED%3FOpenDocument

^^ Yep saw that, here's the same news from my website: http://www.herningshuse.dk/nyheder.php?nid=11 :)

Is Engholm Søpark going to be next to the gulf course?

/\ Yep, just north of it. Here's a small article about it: Engholm Søpark (http://www.herningshuse.dk/nyheder.php?nid=4)

Anybody remember this:

H2PIA - World's first hydrogen city (http://www.h2pia.dk)...

...was presented in Herning Today. First of all, it's not sure this will be build in Herning. It's not sure it will be build at all. But since there's a lot of Hydrogen research here, and the plans were presented here, I'd say there's a good chance Herning could be the location for this "World's first hydrogen city". Also, in "Deadline" on Danish DR2, they said that there are plans to build the first house in Herning in 2 years or so.

Basicly this "H2PIA" is a small city (town) where hydrogen are used for everything. From fuel for the cars to heating the houses.

There's a lot of info in their brochure, which can be found here (http://www.h2pia.dk/com/h2pia/materials/H2PIA_Brochure_ENG.pdf) (pdf document).

Some renderings of H2PIA (this is probably just some ideas of how it could look, and surely nothing final):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/h2pia/1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/h2pia/2.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/h2pia/3.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/h2pia/4.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/h2pia/5.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/h2pia/6.jpg

Looked like a crazy future vision when it was presented 1 ½ year ago, but now it might soon be reality. In todays local paper, there's an acticle about it. Seems the the politicians in folketinget today have talked about financial support for it, and the first part could be ready as soon as 2009 (first 66 og 200 homes). It'll be build in the outskirts of Herning, and within a month the company behind it will reveal the plans. Sounds very interesting to me :)

The paper writes that the interest from the politicians could be linked with the big climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009. This means they could be very serious about this, and could also speed things up a lot.

Nice...good nice for Herning. Would we great if they could finish it before the conference, but I doubt that it will be 2006 as you wrote;)

Whoops, that was suppoed to be 2009. ;)

Wow nice... Would be cool if they builded it here in Tjørring (northern suburb).

It's gonna be just south of Hammerum, somewhere in between Birk, Hammerum, the motorway and HI Parken. Don't know the exact location though, but I think it'll be somewhere in the red ring or close to it:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/h2piakort.jpg
(© Google Earth)

Could have been really nice just east of Tjørring though, between the comming "Holing Sø" and Løvbakkerne, but that ain't going to happen.

That is also a great location. right next to the highway going to Århus.

What are they going to build in Lind next to ALPI Danmark? I heard there are plans about a 25 - 40 m building.

/\ The plans haven't been revealed yet. They allow for 25 meters, and the site was recently for sale. Wheater they found a buyer or not, I don't know, but they were discussing it on the last city council meeting...as a "closed case" though, so I have no idea if they have a buyer or not.

Oh, and welcome to the forum. :) Are you from Herning?

Oh, not good news for the DGI Water/Culture Center.

I hope they find a solution.

Is it the news (http://www.dgi.dk/artikel.aspx?aid=9617) that they only received half of the needed 14 million DKK in operational funding from the executive committee of the national gymnastics organisation?

I tried to look into the news item on Herning Folkeblad (www.herningfolkeblad.dk)'s website entitled "Bombe under DGI-byen" but it appears the news is only for subscribers. Could you elaborate a bit please?

/\ You can read today's paper by going to this link (http://epaper.herningfolkeblad.dk/index.php)

@ knilaus: Nope, it ain't that. That is as it should be (the last half is suppoed to be given on Aug 21.)

About the news itself, it doesn't look too good. Sound pretty insane to me, that after spending two years on negotiating all the details, the consortium behind the plans wont pay the minimum price for the site. I almost hope another contractor comes by, and pay the 29.7 million. Then we could maybe get a nicer highrise building, though that probably aint going to happen. Hope they'll find a solution...

It's pretty hard to figure out all the different things in this though, since so many different parts are involved. Local KPC Byg A/S was suppoed to build it all, and also pay for the residential highrise. Herning Kommune were gonna pay for the DGI Center itself, which DGI was going to operate. Herning Folkeblad were going to pay for the Media House (I think, or maybe they'll just be tenants), and I don't know who is supposed to pay for the hotel which DGI are operating. Then there's also the parking garage and the health centre parts, which makes it all even more complicated...oh dear...:(

Thanks for the elaboration, mlm.

/\ You can read today's paper by going to this link (http://epaper.herningfolkeblad.dk/index.php)
That link doesn't work for me. It tells me I need to be logged in.

It looks like they have "closed" the free link again. It has been free for a month or so.

Anyway, there's a bit more about it today, saying that the project could be delayed for a year (if it'll stay alive). It's just stupid, and I hope they'll try to find a solution soon.

Sad news indeed. :ohno:
I considered this project almost 100% safe. But if it isn't the NIMBY's, it's the economy that stops the projects. :bash:

A strange procedure, doing all this planning-work, and then nobody ever discussed the price of the site until at this late stage!

New interesting project in Herning:

35 m
11 floors
Residential


http://files.gratisupload.dk/1190909891_OJoP1fDj.jpg

http://files.gratisupload.dk/1190909937_BDYgu5fU.jpg


Instead of the Ny-Mølle Area:

http://files.gratisupload.dk/1190909951_M9NSamP8.jpg

/\ Yeah, I also added it to the "All new Danish high-rises" thread a few days ago. Let's hope the localplan hearing will go smoothly, so then can start building soon. The buildings that are there, really look terrible, specially the ones facing Møllegade. Will give a big boast to the area. :)

Today a new project was presented at Herning City Hall. It is one HUGE project, including a lot of different things. Some of them are:

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New big lake (3 times larger than "Fuglsang sø"), including intl rowing stadium with a 14.000 spectator capacity, and lot of facilities.

New golf course: 36 outdoor holes, and 18 indoors.

1000 new homes in stage 1, many of them on new islands in the big new lake.

Skidome, with 400 m long piste (right word?)

New hotels

"Holiday town" (Ferieby)

Lots of new commercial space
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It all sounds a bit crazy to me, and surely a HUGE project. They're supposed to start digging and building in 2009, but surely there's a lot of work before this will become a reality. Financially, Aktiv Gruppen A/S (www.aktivgruppen.dk/) from Kolding, is behind the project, together with Herning Kommune.

A few links: Press Release from Herning Kommune (http://www.herning.dk/Borger/Supplerendemenu/Presserum/Pressemeddelelser/Vis%20alle%20pressemeddelelser/2007-11-07%20Futopia.aspx) and a PDF with more detailed information (http://www.herning.dk/sitecore/shell/Controls/Rich%20Text%20Editor/~/media/Dokumenter/Borger/Presserum%20pressemeddelelser/06%2011%2007%20Masterplan%20Praesentation%2072%20dpi%20pdf.ashx).

Here's a siteplan of the area. A more detailed version can be seen in the above pdf file:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/aktivgruppen.jpg
(© Kobra Arkitekter)

^^ Nice!! But they really need some landmark skyscrapers to give this new area a good profile. How far is it from Herning centre and is it close to the motorway?

The place that is fartest (?) away from city center would be somthing like 6 km. The northern part of the ring road around Herning is "only" an expressway (motortrafikvej) which should be 2 km away.

This is really a great project, and I would be really happy if it became reality.

^^ Nice!! But they really need some landmark skyscrapers to give this new area a good profile. How far is it from Herning centre and is it close to the motorway?I see Danish_guy has already explained the distance, so I'll leave that out. Some highrises would be okay, although I would rather see some in the city center somewhere.

I made a map with the location (from googleearth). The red line surrounds Herning, and the new area are within the blue line (very roughly made):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningprojects/aktivgruppenarea.jpg

Seems like a lovely project although I'm a bit disappointed it seems they won't actually be placing housing on some of those artificial islands that were mentioned in the press coverage of the proposal.

Do you know who owns the land at present, what is the proposed timeline for construction and what is the 'state of play' - i.e. do they have planning permission from the local authorities and so on..?

EDIT: Ah there will indeed be housing on the islands (on page 14). Couldn't find information to answer my other questions, though. It seems like a 'concept sketch' that doesn't commit anyone to anything in particular? What's the chance of this becoming a reality?

Thank you for the explanation both of you!

Some highrises would be okay, although I would rather see some in the city center somewhere.

There's always been a lot of talk about skyscrapers in Herning, but I don't really see anything happening. Nimby power runs just as strong in Herning as anywhere else it seems - even though the town is known to be very business minded. So what I'm trying to say is this: if nothing really happens in the existing centre, why not start building tall in a new town development?

There's always been a lot of talk about skyscrapers in Herning, but I don't really see anything happening. Nimby power runs just as strong in Herning as anywhere else it seems - even though the town is known to be very business minded. So what I'm trying to say is this: if nothing really happens in the existing centre, why not start building tall in a new town development?I'll answers yours first. Yes, there are some NIMBY resistance, but that's not what's holding back projects. The problem with the DGI center, is financially, and it looks a bit like KPC (The company behind the original plan) has gotten cold feet. The thing that stops the project from starting right now, is that KPC only wants to give around 15 million for the ground, while Herning Kommune wants 30. Seems completely stupid, that a project with a price of +500 million, can go down the drain because of 15 million.

The only other KPC highrise, the 12 storey "Queens Corner" are approved, and was supposed to start construction "after the sommerbreak". No idea why they haven't started yet, but I'm passing the site everyday, and hope something will happen soon.

There haven't been any other serious highrise proposals in the city center, for many years.

Seems like a lovely project although I'm a bit disappointed it seems they won't actually be placing housing on some of those artificial islands that were mentioned in the press coverage of the proposal.

Do you know who owns the land at present, what is the proposed timeline for construction and what is the 'state of play' - i.e. do they have planning permission from the local authorities and so on..?

EDIT: Ah there will indeed be housing on the islands (on page 14). Couldn't find information to answer my other questions, though. It seems like a 'concept sketch' that doesn't commit anyone to anything in particular? What's the chance of this becoming a reality?I really don't know that much about it, and it all seems a bit unrealitic to me. I think the "Holing Sø" will be made at some point, no matter what, since it has been planned for a long time. But for the project as a whole, I don't give it too many chances...maybe 10-20 %.

Herning Kommune owns about half of the land, and private owners the other half (I would think). A completely new kind of structure has been made for this, a company where Herning Kommune owns 40% and Aktiv Gruppen 60%. The plan is that Herning Kommune will sell their 40% of the company as soon as localplans are ready, and they can start building. Then Herning Kommune will sell their land to Aktiv Gruppen, and for the money Herning Kommune will "byggemodne" the area (make roads, drains and stuff). Since this is a completely new way of doing things, Herning has asked "Statsforvaltningen Midtjylland", and they say it's legal. The big questions is how they're going to get the last 50% of the landarea. Are they going to expropriate it? Is that even legel for a golf course and the other stuff? I have no idea. There's also the chance they simply just buy the land from the owners, although that will probably be very expensive, now after the plans are out.

Still many many questions to be answered.

I still think it would be fantastic. For Herning, this has almost a Dubai'ish size to it. Unfortunately that's the kind of plans that almost always face a certain death in our part of the world. :(

Not really project related, but our dear Cronhammar hits 60 today. Happy Birthday dude. :D

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/cronhammar.jpg

/\ At first glance I thought it was Saddam Hussein! :D

^^ Wait a minute!!

Could he be hiding all of his Weapons of Mass Destruction inside ELIA (http://www.elia.dk/)?? :shocked:

Would be the perfect place to hide them...

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningflyvetur/flyvetur36.jpg

^^
Did you ever see the flames?

^^ Wait a minute!!

Could he be hiding all of his Weapons of Mass Destruction inside ELIA (http://www.elia.dk/)?? :shocked:

Would be the perfect place to hide them...

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/skyscrapercity/herningflyvetur/flyvetur36.jpg

Now, that would be an embarrasement :D

^^
Did you ever see the flames?Never yet, hope I will one day. :)

But now I've heard about people seeing it, which is new to me. :D

On the frontpage of the ELIA website (http://www.elia.dk/), you can see when it was been on (hasn't been updated since september). I was also inside of it a few months ago, and it's amazingly huge. The inside is open to the public every year around it's birthday, September 27th.

I have never understood why they builded Elia... it doesn´t have any function, so why not just use the money to improve the city instead? (or give them to me :D)

/\ Some people think art improves a city;)