![]() ![]() Led by OMA Partners-in-charge Rem Koolhaas and Ellen van Loon in collaboration with OMA Associate-in-charge Adrianne Fisher, the project is scheduled for completion in early 2017. Providing a connection under the busy Christians Brygge, where entrances to the different program elements are strategically located, the site becomes both a destination and a connector at the hinge of the waterfront and the ‘entrance’ to the city. To capitalize on the site’s potential, the building is an ‘urban motor’ to actively link the city and the waterfront. The site is bound by a cluster of historic monuments, including the Christiansborg Palace and the Old Brewery, whilst sharing the riverside with many other bold, contemporary interventions. Situated among landmarks in the history of Danish architecture, Bryghusprojektet shares with the indigenous modernism tenets of simplicity, monumentality and urbanity. The urban routes reach into the heart of the building and create a broad range of interactions between the different program parts and the urban environment.” OMA Partner-in-charge Ellen van Loon explained: “Instead of stacking a mixed-use program in a traditional way, we positioned the DAC in the centre of the volume, surrounded by and embedded within its objects of study: housing, offices and parking. The building will act as the missing link between the city centre, the historic waterfront and the culturally rich Slotsholmen district of Copenhagen. The 27,000m² mixed-use project will accommodate a new headquarters for the Danish Architecture Centre (DAC). OMA and Manchester Factory International were contacted for comment.Construction begins today on the OMA-designed Bryghusprojektet in Copenhagen, Denmark. This will be followed in October by its official opening production, Free Your Mind, a ‘large-scale immersive performance’ based on The Matrix, retold through dance, music and visual effects and directed by Danny Boyle. The public will get its first chance to use the completed building in June, when it will form the centrepiece of the 2023 Manchester International Festival with a major exhibition by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama in its main warehouse space. It will be run by the team behind the world-famous Manchester International Festival. The Factory is being billed as ‘a global destination for arts, music and culture, commissioning and presenting a year-round programme by leading artists from across the world’. This is the largest amount of government arts funding to a single scheme since Tate Modern, which opened in 2000. The government has contributed £106.5 million to the funding of The Factory, which will also benefit from a £9 million per year grant from Arts Council England. The latest report said that the council would be able ‘to recover a significant proportion of the borrowing costs from naming rights income’ – with a fundraising and commercial sponsorship target of £24.17 million. It added that a total of £50.3 million of construction work had been paid and a further £58.8 million had been procured at a lump sum.īut it said a further £16.3 million of spending was based on ‘provisional sums’ with at least £3.3 million of work yet to be procured.Ĭonstruction work is being led by manager Laing O’Rourke, with – as of 2019 – 32 separate construction packages being let to subcontractors. The council report said that detailed design work, including by Ryder, which was drafted in to tackle spiralling costs in 2020, had now been completed. It also said the chancellor’s mini-budget last week was ‘likely to increase costs further with inflationary pressure and rising costs of finance’.īut the report acknowledged ‘the complexity of the project and the challenges of design co-ordination on the steel structure have also continued to impact on cost’, adding that the largest issue was ‘changes required to accommodate the final requirements for the MEP work package, where further work has been required to ensure that the structure and acoustic treatments are aligned to the MEP installations’.
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