This brings to mind some modern art I’ve seen. The use of color in The 8 House is someting I hadn’t noticed until I spent an evening there.
The 8 House – 6, 2012
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The 8 House – 5, 2012
On an evening in August I returned to he 8 House (8-Tallet) to test the abilities of my Nikon D5100 to shoot pictures in the growing darkness. Almost to my surprise I spent 1.5 hour just walking around the complex and take pictures. It grew ever darker as you will see in this series of another eight pictures from Ørestad Syd. I came home with a bunch of very satisfying picture but sorting through them I felt increasingly clear about my objective: A goodlooking picture isn’t good enough if it’s only good on account of the architeture. If I did not not contribute something, a different view that was not obvious, the picture got deleted.
8-Tallet 4, 2012
Another shot of the café on the corner of The 8 Number complex – the one with the unrestricted view of the nature reserve. I was looking for lines, though, not scenery 🙂
8-Tallet 3, 2012
The 8 Number lies at the Southern most end of Ørestaden – a new city district being built on Amager, a few kilometers from the center of Copenhagen. The complex overlooks Vestamager – a nature reserve. What you see in the picture is the café and the view of Vestamager. A row of artifical lakes have been established at the edge of Ørestaden.
Bonusinfo: In the summer cows from other parts of Denmark spend the summer on Vestamager to keep the grass down.
8-Tallet 2, 2012
The apartment complex, The 8 Number, is inspired by a village placed on a hill. We have few (if any) hills in Denmark, but in this case the complex opens to two courts with about 1/3 of the apartments being town houses with a tiny ‘garden’ facing out to a path that can lead you all the way up, all the way down , and all the way around…
I couldn’t resist calling this picture “Stairway to Heaven”. It shows the begiing (or end) of one the loops you can walk, with the little town house “gardens” facing the flow of people passing by.
8-Tallet 1, 2012
This is the first of two series from 8-Tallet (the number 8). This complex of apartments is designed by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group). Bjarke Ingels is only 37 but the man is way beyond cool. The 8 House is close to my home as are several of BIG’s early projects.
Karins Fotos 