The 8 House? Really? Well yes, the pavement is part of the overall architecture. We just don’t look down very often. Tomorrow I’ll raise my gaze.
The 8 House 2, Copenhagen 2014
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The 8 House 1, Copenhagen 2014
The 8 House in Ørestad, Copenhagen, is a complex I have visited before and I’m about to present another series of shots from that location. Let me clear up any confusion and say the image above is from a building right next to The 8 House. Consider this an anti-pasta 🙂
Ørestad Syd
This sculpture stands to the building next to the 8 House in Ørestad. Driving towards it you see tall, modern buildings, but park the car and approach it from the other direction and it stands alone against the backdrop of the residential neightbourhood.
The rain began a few minutes after this shot and I ran in the cold wind back to the car with the camera covered by my jacket, being terrified that it would get wet. I’m still very careful about my camera 🙂
The 8 House – 13, 2012
The last picture of this session at the 8 House was also taken from across the artificial lake and still without tripod. I had spent 1 1/2 hour from dusk to darkness walking around and photographing. When I got home I was asked what I had been doing. “Didn’t you even have coffee?” “No, I didn’t have time.”
The 8 House – 12, 2012
On the night I visited the 8 House with my camera it was complety quiet. I realized that the complex reflected in the still water of the artificial lake and move to the other side of the lake to catch the full reflection.
I have no used no tripod on any of these shots. My Nikon lenses have vibration control and it works like a wonder. It was pitch dark by then but still the picture came out this clear.
The 8 House – 11, 2012
This is not unlike a picture in a former post – only at night – a lovely, warm summers night that was perfect for sitting outside in the dark.
The interior of the café is seen through the open door, the artificial lake and the undisturbed land to the right and the illuminated path leading up seven stories high in the middle.
The 8 House – 10, 2012
In the near darkness the effect of the light from the passages works differently than earlier in the evening.
The 8 House – 9, 2012
In a country with no mountains or hardly even hills the objective of The 8 House – to build a mountain village – really stands out. In the background is the unrestircted view of the preserved area Vestamager.
One of the features of The 8 House is the pathway that runs up and down the complex for almost 1 mile. Lately I’ve noticed that two of the entrance points to the pathway have been labelled ‘Private’ though I know that was not the original idea. It is possible to enter from the other end of the complex without being met by that sign.
The 8 House – 8, 2012
Again, as darkness was descending, new aspects of the 8 House revealed themselves. The repeating patterns, the reflecting and non-reflecting surfaces, the use of the light…
The 8 House – 7, 2012
Another example of what you won’t discover, walking around the 8 House in full daylight. I don’t know if Bjarke Ingels realized that the vertical white lights would point to the red lit door in the background. He might well have.
Karins Fotos 