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NIELS BROCK INTERNATIONAL GYMNASIUM - Copenhagen as Eco-Metropole
12.08.2021On August 5th, we had the pleasure of spending a wonderful day with 54 teachers from the Niels Brock International Gymnasium. We started the day with a talk on Copenhagen as Eco-Metropole, then enjoyed a vegetarian lunch at La Banchina on Refshaleøen. To end the day, we enjoyed a wonderful 2 hour harbour tour with blue water, blue skies and sunshine around us. What a wonderful day filled with many great and engaging questions - all while enjoying - and seeing others enjoy - Copenhagen's blue...
read moreHYLLIE: WHERE SMART PLANNING MEETS RENEWABLE AND RECYCLABLE ENERGY
15.07.2021How do we build a sustainable, climate-smart city of the future? The Malmo district of Hyllie shows that sustainability can become reality, as it has been the testbed of sustainable solutions that center around the use of renewable electricity and smart planning.
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read moreTHANK YOU BYGGESOCIETETET
02.06.2021Last week we enjoyed an EXPLORING NORDVEST urban walking tour done in collaboration with Byggesocietetet.
Some of the locations we visited on the tour include: Biblioteket Rentemestervej, the Dortheavej Residence designed by BIG | Bjarke Ingels Group, Demokrati Garage and Farvemøllen. We ended the tour with great conversation and delicious food at Tribeca Pizza Lab.
What a wonderful tour with many wonderful and engaging questions. We are grateful for this collaboration and are...
read moreEXPLORING COPENHAGEN x POLITIKEN KICK OFF
06.05.2021It is a great time to discover new ways to use our city.
Today we had the successful kick off of the first bicycle tour of the season to Nordhavn. In collaboration with Politiken we are offering 8 bicycle tours this spring to four exemplary neighborhoods: Ørestad, Nordhavn, Østerbro and the Inner Harbor.
Each tour addresses one of the main topics determining the development of Copenhagen: future living, CO2 - neutrality, the healthy city and green mobility. By visiting examples...
read moreAMERICAN STUDENTS OF URBAN STUDIES VISITS SCALEDENMARK
03.05.2021What a pleasure of being invited as "special guest" for 5 US students of "Urban Studies" by their DIS Professor of Practice in Urban Studies Regitze Marianne Hess
The DIS students in "Urban Studies" are now physical in Copenhagen after last semester virtually having taken the course European Urban Experience.
I told about my career as a DIS Architecture & design faculty, Nordic values, being a member of BLOXHUB and consulting the built environment by helping decision makers...
read moreTHANK YOU BYGGESOCIETETET
23.04.2021Yesterday we enjoyed the kick off of the season with an EXPLORING NØRREBRO urban walking tour done in collaboration with BYGGESOCIETETET. The tour had a focus on public plazas and green space, large scale, micro as well as pocket parks in Copenhagens most densely populated neighborhood. The well attended 2-hour tour ended with networking, scharwarmas and local craft beer in a typical green and lush Nørrebro courtyard.
We are grateful for this collaboration and are looking forward to...
read moreVirtual Tour Series: Nordhavn
21.01.2021New ways to explore sustainable cities!
After nearly a year of not being able to travel, we invite you to explore-from-home with our virtual tour of Nordhavn this January 29!
In collaboration with Guiding Architects, we will take you to the docklands of Nordhavn - a transformational urban development district in Copenhagen with the vision of becoming “the sustainable borough of the future."
Located on the Øresund coast, Nordhavn is a...
read moreOAK VILLAGE - Nordic-Canadian Circular Economy Hackathon
01.12.2020Scaledenmark is delighted to announce that together with an interdisciplinary team, we have been named the winner of the Nordic-Canadian Circular Economy Hackathon!
The hackathon was an intense 3-day digital design sprint to develop circular solutions in energy and construction for an upcoming High Rise Condominium project in Oakville, Ontario. Financed by Nordic Innovation, the intent of the hackathon was to connect Nordic/Danish companies with Canadian industry stakeholders (private...
read moreSAMFUNDSSIND - In the context of Covid-19
16.11.2020Earlier this month, BBC Travel featured an article which focused on the Danish concept of ‘Samfundssind’.
This term can be translated to ‘community spirit’ and is a concept that sits at the base of the danish society. Nonetheless, this term has become more and more relevant during the time of COVID-19 and as a result was assigned the ‘word of the year’ by Dansk Sprognævn (the Danish Language Council) and P1 radio station....
read moreEXPLORING BORNHOLM - The start
09.11.2020This weekend we took our first big step in establishing Exploring Bornholm as a catalyst between the Nordic and Japanese cultures. Our founder, Bo Christiansen, together Mikkel Storgaard from Nordisk NHL have led a Japanese delegation formed of Tomonori Makita from Structured Environment and Yuhki Woody Udagawa from Baum LTD on a two...
read moreGRØNTTORVET
02.11.2020The idea of living locally and creating a community based around living green is a movement we see happening more and more. We strive to find a sense of community and a sense of belonging. Living sustainably gives us a bigger purpose. With this thought in mind we invite you to have a look at GRØNTTORVET, Copenhagen’s new budding district.
The old wholesale Grønttorv in Valby, which since 1958 has been a trading place for fruit,...
read moreTONI - changing tradition
26.10.2020This monday we thought about doing something different. So instead of posting our normal Monday highlights, we will present a short interview with TONI's new CEO Mark Christiansen. TONI Copenhagen stems from a long family tradition of passionate professionals who, for generations, stood by their craftsmanship and created a world of quality design where only the best was good enough. Their armature fixtures have been produced in their factory in Copenhagen since 1918, evolving over time and...
read moreFRITZ HANSEN x SCALE DENMARK
19.10.2020Last monday, we were happy to welcome a curious team of delegates from FRITZ HANSEN to our office in BLOXHUB for an inspirational event on holistic design thinking. The event was based on the ‘Exploring Copenhagen’ book, and was comprised of a lecture on Copenhagen as Eco-metropole and a 2 hours walk and talk along the Harbour Circle.
Interested in finding inspiration from Copenhagen? Then contact us to learn more about how to do it. ...
read morePOWER TO X
05.10.2020It is no secret that Denmark is investing in the the energy storage and sector coupling technologies of the future. This year, two large-scale Power-to-X projects have been awarded grants totalling EUR 17.1 million, which will allow us to use green power as fuel for busses, airplanes and ships in the future.
But what is a ‘Power to X’ project? Power-to-X (also P2X and P2Y) is a number of electricity conversion,...
read moreTHANK YOU POLITIKENPLUS
28.09.2020This weekend we celebrated the last of our 8 tours done in collaboration with POLITIKENPLUS. The aim of the tours was to raise awareness of the innovative advancements in the fields of sustainable architecture and urban planning, placed in 4 of Copenhagen’s most developed quarters: Ørestad, Østerbro, Nordhavn and the Harbor area.
We are grateful for this collaboration and hope we can repeat the experience next year....
read morePETERSEN TEGL - Handmade brickworks
21.09.2020Petersen Tegl was founded in 1791 and is a family-owned manufacturer of specialised brick based in Sønderjylland, Denmark. What makes this company unique is the fact that more than half of Petersen Tegl’s range consists of 100% handmade products. Moreover, the manufacturer is one of the few brickworks in the world that masters the art of firing brick with coal. The process adds vibrant colours in pale and dark shades to the waterstruck brick.
Manufacture of brick for special...
read moreEXPLORING BORNHOLM - A boutique style consultancy
16.09.2020We are happy to announce the launch of our new initiative: Exploring Bornholm.
With a successful precedent set by the island, Exploring Bornholm is a boutique style consultancy that offers customized seminars to decision makers, leadership groups and students in which the aim is to share insightful knowledge on how to achieve sustainable urban transformations.
Would you like to take part in this? We are open to new collaborations, partnership and ideas of how to reach more...
read moreEPICLAY - Framing their stay in Copenhagen
09.09.2020Last Friday we had the pleasure to host EPICLAY on a tour through our innovative city of Copenhagen.
Epiclay are an international Start-up developed throughout the Build Solutions Project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, and are now part of the accelerator program hosted by City Facilitator at BLOXHUB. Their aim is to make urban areas more liveable and healthy by creating a modular green wall system, which can...
read moreZERO WASTE BORNHOLM
07.09.2020By 2023 Bornholm plans to become the first waste free Island. An ambitious and conscious initiative that should set the scene for a new way of living. Therefore, last friday Lea Wermelin, the Danish minister of environment has visited BOFA, Bornholm’s waste management authority, to learn more about the strategies that will soon be implemented on the island.
Amongst others, some of the topics discussed included: a new tender for collection of household waste; partnerships with local...
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