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Henning Larsen creates gridded facade for Minneapolis Public Service Building

Global firm Henning Larsen Architects prioritised openness and connectivity to create a Minnesota government building that is part of a "new coalition of civic architecture across the United States".

The Minneapolis Public Service Building sits within the city's Government District in the downtown area, right next to bus and light rail stops. The US Bank Stadium is a few blocks away.

The building has a gridded facade

Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects – which has five offices around the globe – designed the 370,233-square-foot (34,396-square-metre) building with local studio MSR Design.

The architects worked closely with the City of Minneapolis and public advocates on the project.

The Minneapolis Public Service Building has a ground-level filled with natural light

A key goal was to "flip the conventions of civic design" and depart from the opaque style of architecture found in the district.

"The building is the latest in a new coalition of civic architecture across the United States conceived around the question: How can our public spaces better reflect the communities they serve?" the team said.

The Public Service Building was completed in 2021

"By deliberately designing for openness and connection, we hoped to help foster a renewed sense of community trust and partnership within the city," said Michael Sørensen, a partner at Henning Larsen.

The Public Service Building was completed in 2021, but was not fully occupied until this year due to coronavirus restrictions.

The office facility brings together 10 city departments

The office facility brings together 10 city departments and over 1,200 employees who were formerly housed in various buildings across the city. It contains both public and non-public areas.

The team created a rectangular building – both in plan and form – and carved out double-height "pockets" to break up the massing and give each elevation a slightly different look. Facades are wrapped in glass and an aluminium grid with angled fins.

Visitors step into a ground-level filled with natural light and earthy materials. Just beyond the entrance, a wide, open staircase helps establish an inviting atmosphere and is meant to be visually linked to activity on the street.

On the first floor, the team provided a connection to the city's sprawling network of pedestrian sky bridges, which enable residents to more easily get around during the city's icy winters.

A range of workspaces and meeting rooms are included

"You're really inviting people from the skyway system into this space and being part of this generous public area in the building," says Sørensen. "This is the one space where the public meets the city – everything converges here."

Levels three to 10 contains a range of workspaces and meeting rooms, along with quiet areas for personal time. The top floor encompasses a conference room, a cafe and a terrace with generous views of the urban landscape, including the Mississippi River that winds through the city.

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Throughout the building, the team prioritised natural light and good indoor air quality.

"In a government building requiring high security, the design still feels open and airy at every turn," the architects said.

The building also offers opportunities for social interaction

The building also offers ample opportunities for social interaction.

"Employees are encouraged to meet and share space with colleagues in neighbouring departments," the team said. "While government offices are not often social spaces, the new Public Service Building offers space to change that."

The project is located in Minneapolis

Other projects by Henning Larsen include an opera house in Hangzhou that resembles an iceberg and The Wave housing complex in Denmark that was under construction for 11 years.

The photography is byCorey Gaffer.

Project credits:

Design architect: Henning Larsen
Henning Larsen project team: Michael Sørensen (partner and design director); Nina La Cour Sell (partner); Mike McElderry (project director); Stephanie Rogowski and Sara Rubenstein (senior architects); Andreas Brunvoll, Tessira Crawford, Mark David Hocking, Grant McCracken, Christian Bøggild Schuster, Yuye Peng and Royce Perez (designers)
Architect of record: MSR Design (Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd)
MSR project team: Matthew S Kruntorád (partner-in-charge); Eric Amel (project architect); Alan Hillesland and Dan Vercruysse (project managers); Byoungjin Lee, Brendan Gill Sapienza, Ken Martin, Mitch Karr (architects); Rachelle Schoessler Lynn (workplace expert, interior designer); Caitlin Maus-Grussing (interior designer); Benjamen Schwarz, Brian Charles Davis, Matthew Mahoney and Sara Du (designers)
Structural engineer and security consultant: Buro Happold
Mechanical and electrical engineers: Buro Happold
Plumbing and fire protection engineers: Obernel Engineering
Civil engineers: EVS
AV/IT consultant: Technology Management Corporation
Landscape architect: Coen + Partners
Law enforcement and forensic lab designer: McClaren, Wilson & Lawrie, Inc.
Life safety/code consultant: Jensen Hughes
Vertical transportation consultant: Lerch Bates
Traffic and pedestrian consultant: Greenway Transportation Planning; Traffic Impact Group
Acoustical consultant: Kvernstoen, Ronnholm & Associates
Cost estimator: Faithful & Gould
Change management consultant: Koliso
Energy design assistance: Willdan
Enhanced commissioning: Questions & Solutions Engineering
Facade consultant: AWS/Baker Metals
Building enclosures and commissioning (BECX): Pie Consulting & Engineering
Owners representative: CPMI
Construction manager agent: Mortenson Company

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Henning Larsen designs tree-like volumes made from mass timber for Volvo experience centre

Danish architecture firm Henning Larsen Architects has unveiled its design for a mass-timber building in Sweden that will be used as an experience centre and meeting place for car manufacturer Volvo.

Named the World of Volvo and located in Gothenburg, Sweden, the 22,000 square-metre development aimed to combine the traditional craftsmanship of Scandinavian design and timber construction with a "modern approach".

"Architecture is currently in the midst of a timber renaissance, with new milestones in timber construction being reached at a breakneck pace," said Henning Larsen lead architect Filip Francati.

"World of Volvo has been an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries and we hope that it can set a new standard for the many ways we can use timber in architecture."

World of Volvo is a mass-timber building that was designed by Henning Larsen

The structure will be used to bring together Volvo's brands, including Volvo Group and Volvo Cars, under one roof to share the history, tradition and future of the brand. It will house exhibition spaces, a restaurant, and also conference and meeting spaces.

World of Volvo will take shape as a low-rise tubular building with an overhanging roof.

The exterior and interior of the building will be divided by curving panes of glass, which wrap around the entirety of the building to open it up to the outside.

The building will take shape as a collection of tree-like structures surrounded by glazed exterior walls

In Henning Larsen's visualisations, the interior of the building is organised around a central collection of three tree-trunk-like forms, which form rooms that will house small exhibition spaces and building services.

These will be surrounded by columns that extend and branch toward and across the ceiling to the exterior canopy, similar to the branches of a tree.

The building's structural columns and beams will be constructed from glue-laminated timber (glulam), which will be bonded by a moisture-resistant structural adhesive.

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As well as the three trunks, the interior will also feature a set of oversized steps that will link each of the building's levels and act as display areas for exhibition items.

The floor slabs of the centre will be constructed using locally sourced cross-laminated timber.

The landscaping around the World of Volvo will see native plants and flowers surround the building between meandering paths and staggered paved areas, and aims to encourage visitors to "inhabit the landscape however they like."

The interior will be used to display Volvo products

"Our approach brings a native piece of Swedish nature to the middle of the city of Gothenburg," said Henning Larsen's global design director for landscape, Sonja Stockmarr.

"The landscape, from the Swedish quarries and the wooden structure, built with the pine trees, moss, and shrubs of the Swedish forest, make up the nature surrounding World of Volvo."

Henning Larsen will incorporate a promenade that extends along the eastern bank of the Mölndalsån river, connecting the centre and its visitors with Gothenburg's city centre.

World of Volvo is expected to be completed in late 2023 and open to visitors in 2024.

Elsewhere, Henning Larsen has revealed plans for "one of the largest contemporary wood structures in Denmark".

The practice is also developing Copenhagen's "first all-timber neighbourhood" on the outskirts of the city.

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Henning Larsen and Fabel Arkitekter complete brick-clad veterinary complex in Norway

Over 300,000 hand-cut bricks cover the Veterinary Building at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), designed by Danish practice Henning Larsen in collaboration with Norwegian studio Fabel Arkitekter.

Comprised of eight buildings totalling 95,000 square metres, the project at Campus Ås is the largest overall development ever completed in Norway's university and college sector.

Campus Ås is a veterinary building in Norway that was designed by Henning Larsen and Fabel Arkitekter

Combining previous disparate facilities for the Norwegian Veterinary Institute and the NMBU, the building houses a complex programme of labs, surgical suites and disease research areas with social, teaching and library spaces for the university.

Balancing openness with a need for security, the varied programme was broken down into eight separate buildings. A "permeable barrier" of public spaces surround more secure zones that can be individually locked-down if necessary.

The building forms part of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences

"The project is a bridging of gaps between great and small, hazardous and safe, clinical and human, isolated and connected," said Henning Larssen.

"Despite its vast scale, which packs over 2,400 rooms into the building's 95,000-square-metre floor space, the interiors at the Veterinary Building feel almost cosy," it continued.

The exterior was clad in over 300,000 hand-cut bricks

Green courtyards have been introduced to break up the mass of these low buildings, and provide glimpses between different zones of the building.

Winding paths through the green spaces surrounding the complex connect its various wings, with strips of ground-floor glazing contributing a sense of openness, as well as providing views and light for the interior spaces.

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Contrasting the more private research and lab spaces, the building's social areas are designed to celebrate and encourage interconnectedness between the veterinary institute and the university.

A full-height, skylit atrium features a central stair that zig-zags between two buildings. In the dining area, exposed concrete and wooden finishes contrast the clinical finishes of the lab areas.

"Between the stables, aquariums, animal clinics, hydrotherapy pools, riding halls, laboratories, autopsy rooms, classrooms, offices, libraries and careens, social spaces make room for researches, faculty, students and visiting experts to meet and learn from each other - both formally and informally," said the practice.

The project aims to bridge the gap between clinical and cosy

The choice of a reddish-brown brick for the exterior was informed by the existing buildings on the campus, some of which date back to its foundation in 1859.

These facades are broken up by bands of black metal-framed windows that run around many of the buildings and can be covered by perforated metal shutters.

The complex houses a number of labs, surgical rooms and disease research areas

Similar ideas of communality and cosiness were explored in a recent office building by Henning Larsen in Copenhagen, which featured wood-lined interiors informed by domestic spaces.

In 2019, the practice topped a water treatment facility in Zealand, Denmark with a green roof and meandering pathways.

The photography is byEinar Aslaksen.

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Henning Larsen draws on domestic interiors for office in Copenhagen

Wood-lined meeting areas that imitate the living room of a house are intended to create a sense of "hyggeligt" or coziness in this office building in Copenhagen, designed by Danish practice Henning Larsen.

Described as "A Home for Housing", the 7,400-square-metre office was completed for KAB, Denmark's largest administrator of non-profit housing which manages over 64,000 housing units across its capital city.

Henning Larsen has designed the KAB headquarters in Copenhagen

In addition to being an office for KAB, the building is a gathering place for 44 housing groups and some 120,000 residents, designed by Henning Larsen to be "representative of Denmark's approach to collectivism, welfare, and the home itself."

This informed the concept of the design, which was based on applying the traditional spaces of the home, such as the living room, kitchen, staircase and garden, to an office building.

The building is covered in textured red brick

"We were interested in the play between the office and the home – the two places in which we spend the majority of our daily lives – and how we could infuse the headquarters with the best of both worlds," said Signe Kongebro, global design director and partner at Henning Larsen.

The office is organised around a skylit, wood-lined atrium, with a large reception desk and office canteen sitting among large potted trees.

The office is organised around a wood-lined atrium

A wooden staircase at the centre of this atrium crosses back and forth up the six-storey building to connect to communal kitchen landings on each floor.

"The stairs are a play on the classic stairwell of residential buildings, which is typically the place you meet your neighbour," said associate design director Troels Dam Madsen.

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Smaller meeting spaces look out onto this atrium, and to the west a grid of windows frames a series of rooms designed to resemble the interiors of a house, giving the impression of looking into the windows of an apartment block.

Floor lamps, paintings on the walls and more domestic-feeling furniture have all been used to create a feeling of homeliness in these spaces, with wooden wall finishes used throughout to give a "scent and texture not often associated with the workplace."

Wooden stairs link up the building

"When you peek into the windows of the meeting rooms from the stairs, you are observing a household at work," the practice said.

Around the perimeter of each floor is a ring of more traditional office areas, finished with exposed ducting and concrete and wooden dividers with built-in shelving.

The offices are intended to have a domestic feeling

At the top of the building is a rooftop garden for both visitors and employees, providing contrasting views in every direction of the building's crossroads site, including views of an adjacent railway.

The exterior of the office, treated with a robust finish of textured redbrick, was designed to have "no front or back", with each side featuring many thin windows and openings onto the surrounding garden spaces designed by landscape firm SLA.

The building is complete with a rooftop terrace

Other offices that have looked to domestic interiors for inspiration include Polish architect Mateusz Baumiller's conversion of a military warehouse into an office for three production companies.

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Henning Larsen reveals plans for "one of the largest contemporary wood structures in Denmark"

Danish architecture practice Henning Larsen and engineering company Ramboll have designed an eight-storey stepped wooden building for the Nordhavn waterfront on the eastern edge of Copenhagen.

The proposed mixed-use commercial building, called Marmormolen, would measure 28,000-square metres and be constructed entirely using solid timber.

The timber building will be located in Nordhavn

Marmormolen was designed for Danish pension fund AP Pension and will be built in Copenhagen's Nordhavn district. According to Henning Larsen, which designed it together with Ramboll, it will be one of the largest contemporary wood structures in the country.

"The building, which will be one of the largest contemporary wood structures in Denmark, combines office, retail, and public program on the popular Nordhavn waterfront," said the studio.

The building will be built entirely from timber

By using timber as opposed to concrete, the building will "embed tons of carbon instead of emitting tons," the studio added.

"Today, it is imperative that architecture challenges our usual notion of structures and materials," said Henning Larsen partner and design director Søren Øllgaard.

"The construction industry is a major emitter of CO2, and we therefore also have great opportunities to make things better. We're excited to be working with AP Pension on a project that puts sustainability and sustainable strategies such as the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals first."

The timber building will contain offices, retail and public spaces

Marmormolen will be formed of a collection of rectangular cubes that differ in height, rising and falling in response to the site's surroundings.

At its highest, closest to busy streets and train tracks, the building will rise to its full eight storeys. From here, it will gradually fall to three storeys, as it tapers down to a nearby residential area on the opposite side of the site.

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Marmormolen will contain offices, retail spaces and restaurants, and be surrounded by urban spaces including plazas, gardens and promenades on three sides of the building.

The ground floor of the building is planned as an extension of the nearby public waterfront, merging existing public amenities with a landscaped park and a large public marketplace.

A canteen and auditorium also located on the ground floor will function as both a public eatery and events space for markets and theatres.

The ground floor of the building will be an open public space

On the upper levels of the building, workspaces will feature panoramic views across Copenhagen's skyline and seafront, while a large shared courtyard at the centre of the building will provide the interior with green outdoor space.

Each of the rectangular cubes will have access to a rooftop terrace and gardens that will house beehives, butterfly hotels and areas for growing vegetables for use within the canteens.

The interior will be constructed using timber to echo the building's structural integrity

"Workplaces used to be very interior and exclusive, but people today want to feel they are a part of a more diverse community and open up to their surroundings," Henning Larsen associate design director and lead design architect Mikkel Eskildsen said.

"With Marmormolen we want to create more than a great office building, we also want it to give something back to the city and makes the building come alive – even outside office hours."

Greenery and plants will be used throughout the building and interior

Construction for Marmormolen will begin in early 2022 and is expected to open in 2024.

Elsewhere, Henning Larsen is developing Copenhagen's "first all-timber neighbourhood" located on the outskirts of the city and a sustainable primary school in Sundby that broke ground earlier this year.

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