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Friis & Moltke is a Danish architectural practice headquartered in Aarhus with branch offices in Copenhagen and Aalborg. Friis & Moltke has about 50 employees and is mainly active in the Scandinavian market.[2] The firm was founded in 1955 by the architects Knud Friis and Elmar Moltke Nielsen who met while working at C. F. Møller Architects in Aarhus. Today the company has 6 partners and 1 associated partner responsible for the department of furniture design.[3]
Friis & Moltke | |
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Practice information | |
Partners | Thomas H. Svendsen Palle Hurwitz Anders Christian Bregnballe Thomas Ruus Christensen Mikkel Bahr Mikkel Wienberg Mogens Husted Kristensen[1] |
Founders | Knud Friis Elmar Moltke Nielsen |
Founded | 1955 |
Location | Aarhus |
Significant works and honors | |
Buildings | Hotel Foroyar Gigantium Musikkens Hus |
Website | |
https://friis-moltke.dk/ |
Friis & Moltke has designed many celebrated buildings across Denmark. The projects covers a multitude of functionalities including residential, educational, stadiums, churches, shopping malls, prisons, city halls, concert halls and hotels. A selection of the most notable comprise the following:
Friis & Moltke has been notable architects of the so-called brutalist architecture, a specific branch of the much broader modernist movement. Brutalism had its heyday in the 1960s and 70s, and noteworthy examples from Friis & Moltke includes Hotel Lakolk, Entreprenørskolen, Scanticon Skåde and Odder City Hall in particular.[5] Outside Denmark, the Siemens Global Leadership Center, and associated guest hotel, from 1974 is a prize-winning example of Friis & Moltke's architecture of the brutalist era.
Friis & Moltke is also active outside Denmark with notable and prize-winning architecture:
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