Pavilions

Copenhagen is the construction site of visions during World Capital of Architecture 2023

Some are built with recycled concrete, while others are made of rammed earth or straw. Some are open and constructed as artistic installations, while others resemble houses as we know them, but leave a significantly smaller CO2 footprint. During the year, a series of pavilions focused on the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals emerges along the waterfront in Copenhagen and at selected locations throughout the city. Together, they stand as signature projects for World Capital of Architecture and the World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen.

EFFECT Architects

Otto Busses Vej 27

LIVING PLACES

Read more about Living Places by clicking here. You can experience 1:1 exhibition homes with Denmark's lowest carbon footprint from April 22nd and onwards.

WHY GIVE A SHIT

Architects Without Borders' pavilion is an interpretation of one of their actual development projects, "Bio-centre". Through basic sanitation functions, a bio-centre offers essential services in a densely populated slum.

Thomas Lekfeldt

REFLECTIONS IN COMMON

Inside Reflections in Common, the audience can see themselves, each other, the city, and nature from a new perspective. The pavilion can be experienced from January 17th to October 30th.

Christians Brygge 37

The Raft

The Raft presents a sensuous structure that lands on one of the Copenhagen canal's floating platforms with the aim of offering visitors a direct and playful sensory experience with the water.

The Tower of Wind

Through The Tower of Wind, the audience can experience a journey through the history of meteorology and get an insight into what future technology can tell us about climate challenges.

Plastic Pavilion

Discover how plastics play a crucial role in maintaining and developing a sustainable future. The pavilion will show examples of sustainable products and solutions and present the challenges and dilemmas we face.

Søren Kierkegaards Plads

4 to 1 Planet

Housing construction from 4 to 1 planet has selected 3 winning proposals in the "Next Generation Architecture" competition, which in pavilion form showcase climate-friendly housing construction with resource consumption that respects the planet.

Bricks In Common

Bricks are the cornerstone of Danish welfare construction, and we pay tribute to this in the World Capital of Architecture 2023. The year 2023 also marks the 400th anniversary of Copenhagen's Murerlaug (Bricklayer’s Guild).

Feedback

Food Futures Imagined is an interactive, physical, and digital pavilion displaying the contents of a parallel publication entitled 'The Hacktivist's Guide to Food Security'.

Otto Busses Vej 45

The Greenhouse

The Væksthuset is a flagship project highlighting the need and potential for green, educational, and regenerative spaces in the middle of our cities.

Obel Award: Unpavilion

OBEL AWARD unPAVILION focuses on a built-in contradiction in the construction industry. The construction industry has contributed to improving the lives of billions of people globally, but at the same time is responsible for significant CO2 emissions.

Gråbrødre Torv

Poetic Daylight

The spatial characteristics of daylight are unfolded in the pavilion 'Poetic Daylight', where the sensual, aesthetic, and poetic potential of daylight can be experienced in a series of rooms.

Copenhagen Contemporary, Refshaleøen (juli - oktober)

(P)recast

"Precast Pavilion" udfordrer konventionelle holdninger til forudstøbt beton i bæredygtig og retfærdig byudvikling.