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Scaledenmark was honored to be an invited speaker for the Swedish Institute Management Programme (SIMP): Africa 2017. 

The program hosted 26 innovative leaders in sustainability across various industries from Kenya, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Tanzania and Ethiopia. We presented the lecture “Sustainability as a Double Strategy” using the cross-regional area of Greater Copenhagen and Scania as a case study for creating shared value across business and social platforms. A key focus was...

Scaledenmark was excited to welcome architects, planners, and politicians hosted by Semrén & Månsson to Copenhagen for inspiration and networking. 

Together they are planning a new city center in Ekerö, nearby Stockholm, where Ralph Erskine planned the existing center in the 80’s.

The purpose of the tour was to view current design precedents including housing, mixed-use, harbor development, and new transit station plazas that have been successful in Copenhagen. We...

We introduced this tour with the lecture “Copenhagen as an Eco-metropole.” This lecture presents Copenhagen’s municipal goals to become a carbon neutral city by 2025 alongside Denmark’s national strategy to become one of the world’s leaders in green technology. This set the stage for the rest of the tour, where delegates witnessed first-hand the evolution of Copenhagen’s former industrial neighborhoods as well as innovative material applications of concrete in local projects. 

SSM ARCHITEKTEN traveled from their picturesque village of Solothurn, Switzerland with their entire office to Copenhagen to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their firm. What an honor! Scaledenmark had the pleasure of touring the architects through Nordhavn – from the active rooftop of JAJA Architect’s Konditaget Lüders through to the refined adaptive reuse of former warehouses to human-scaled housing. We then traveled to Ørestad to visit residential projects, including an interior tour...

Scaledenmark spent two days with delegates from Ayana Land Inc. based in Manila, Philippines. First we toured across the Øresund to Malmö, Sweden to explore the sustainable district planning of Bo01 (Live01) – a leading international example of environmental and social sustainability in a dense and diverse residential neighborhood.  We continued the tour on our second day through the Ørestad district, highlighting landmark residential and office buildings while emphasizing the history...

Scaledenmark was honored to welcome Bruce Mau, Chief Design Officer and team of executives from FreemanXP to Copenhagen to present an introduction to Copenhagen and Danish culture through a specialized lecture “The Danish Person’s Life: Value-Based models for increased competiveness and innovation." 

FreemanXP believes design thinking can help create a sustainable, equitable future – and so do we. 

In this lecture we focused on Denmark’s design(ed) society and how...

Scaledenmark was excited to welcome OAI Luxembourg for an extended 3-day tour throughout Copenhagen. The tour days focused on the sustainable development in Copenhagen and the Øresund region, with an emphasis on investigating the regions urban visions with the realized development of new housing, urban links, and new city districts. The tour shaped conversations for integrating health, equity, and sustainable design concepts to support Copenhagen’s goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2025....

Scaledenmark had a wonderful excursion throughout many diverse districts of Copenhagen with Bauart Architects and Planners from Switzerland. We took on the city by bicycle, gaining critical insight into the sophisticated bicycle network of this compact, well-connected and people-focused city. Scaledenmark held the lecture “Copenhagen as an Eco-metropole” to set the context for Copenhagen’s sustainable initiatives and commitment to life-quality enhancement through democratic urban design and...

Today we toured Copenhagen’s north harbor (Nordhavn) with a wonderful group of American students studying at DIS Copenhagen.

The former industrial dockland is undergoing a historic transformation where in the next 40+ years the area will become home to another 40,000 residents and 40,000 jobs. The goals for the new district are quite ambitious. Nordhavn aims to be a living model for sustainable development to support Copenhagen’s long-term goal of becoming the first carbon neutral...