The Austrian government has earmarked €2.4 billion for new school construction and renovation over a 10-year period. Educational construction is one of KHR's main areas of expertise and Palle Bo Rasmussen was invited to share the firm's experience with a number of the decision-makers and professionals who will be helping to implement the Austrian school development programme in the coming years.
KHR Architecture appoints three associate partners to help shape the future of KHR and ensure a generational change in partners over the next five years. The appointment comes as KHR expands its partner base from four to seven.
KHR Architecture expands its partner circle with three co-owners and appoints three associate partners. At the same time, the company is reorganised around three core business areas.
How to combine a high level of security with a healing architecture? The professional media Byggeri + Arkitektur has interviewed Mikkel Beedholm about the architectural ideas behind the new forensic psychiatric centre Sct. Hans.
"The new forensic Psychiatry Sct. Hans manages to combine pronounced architectural qualities with the need for a very high level of security. The architects have created an enclosed ward which (almost paradoxically) is characterised by views, beauty and a pervasive presence of natural elements and views to the sky."
Creative Director Janina Zerbe has been interviewed for the trade paper Licitationen's column "The Director's Other Side", where she talks about her cultural and leisure favourites, ranging from yoga, classical ballet and party on the dance floor, to Japanese literature, her boys' basketball tournaments and summer exhibitions at Ordrupgaard.
Bergens Tidende's architecture critic has visited the soon-to-be-completed children's hospital in Bergen, and the verdict is clear: "This is what sick children and women in labour deserve".
The construction of the new health faculty in Odense, Nyt SUND, is in its final phase. The construction manager takes us around the site of the 50 000 m2 building, where we also meet some of the different professionals involved in the project. Nyt SUND is being built together with the new hospital, Nyt OUH, to create optimal conditions for close cooperation between education, research and practice in the health field.
