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What the BLOX
How Bryghuspladsen became BLOX: OMA's strategies, a large sectional model and the compromises behind the harbourside building that still divides Copenhagen.
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When BLOX opened in 2018, the architecture critics of both Berlingske and Politiken called it a "misfoster", a monstrosity. The Danish Architecture Center, one of its tenants, has now made a show about the building, inside the building, and put that criticism in it alongside other reactions and shelved project proposals.
It climbs DAC's Stair Gallery. You start with the site, which went from fortress and shipyard to industrial harbour, with a ring road that still runs underneath. Then come OMA's strategies, archive material and films, and a large sectional model of BLOX that you step into like a stage. If you got lost finding it, you've done the research: the show is built on that feeling of losing your bearings inside BLOX.
DAC's page for the show carries four hearts from Politiken and three stars from Berlingske. It's included in DAC admission, DKK 135, 10% off online. DAC is open until 21:00 on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, and under-27s get in free on Fridays from 16:00.
Look for
The sectional model
Look for the large cut through BLOX, built as a spatial collage you step into like a stage to see the building from the inside.
The shelved proposals
Earlier project proposals for the Bryghus site that never got built, shown next to the building that did.
The site's past lives
The Bryghus site traced from fortress and shipyard to industrial harbour, ring road and parking, before BLOX went up.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You want a verdict on BLOX: DAC says the show deliberately asks questions rather than explaining it.
With kids
Children under 18 get in free with a paying adult.
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Image credits
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- What the BLOXPhoto : Claus Troelsgaard
- Gauguin & Kihara – First ImpressionsCourtesy of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
- The Power of Fashion in the Roman EmpireCourtesy of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
- What's the Big Rush?Christopher Egeberg Flip / Museum of Copenhagen
- Danish Architecture CenterLeif Jørgensen / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Museum of DenmarkIb Rasmussen, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
- Christiansborg PalaceJulian Herzog / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Ny Carlsberg GlyptotekDaderot / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Museum of CopenhagenLauren Friedman / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0