FRANCE la galerie d’architecture 11 rue des blancs manteaux 75004 Paris tel 0033 (0)1 49 96 64 00 fax 0033 (0)1 49 96 64 00 mail@galerie-architecture.fr www.galerie-architecture.fr   3XN, DENMARK 30 August - 25 September 2008 3XN is a Danish firm of architects with an international outlook that has made a name for itself by winning a number of international architectural competitions: Deutsche Bahn’s headquarters building Cube in Berlin; the cultural centre Buen in Mandal in Norway; Plassen – a theatre and jazz venue in Molde, also in Norway; together with (UNStudio and Gehl Architects, a completely new urban district, Lighthouse, at the port of Aarhus; the Museum of Liverpool in the UK; the concert hall Het Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam; Ørestad Gymnasium in Copenhagen; Alsion, a combined concert hall, university and research park in Sønderborg in southern Denmark; Tivoli’s concert hall; the Danish Embassy in Berlin; Arkitekternes Hus in Copenhagen; the Glass Museum in Ebeltoft. Cultural buildings, institutions, corporate headquarters and combined residential and commercial properties constitute our prime focus area. Architectural competitions continue to play an important role as they help to maintain our professional curiosity, development and the workshop as key elements in the culture of the drawing office. Our working process is based on careful analyses of building programmes and contexts as well as on in-depth dialogue with clients, professional consultants and end-users. In all our buildings, we endeavour to give the functional context of the project a holistic design. The process also involves workshops and frequent study trips both internally and with clients and business partners, just as we often establish local project offices when working abroad. 3XN has permanent drawing offices on Kystvejen in Aarhus and on Strandgade in Copenhagen. 3XN is based on solid experience from working on projects of all sizes from industrial design to urban planning, and across the entire spectrum from sketches and digital planning to construction and supervision. One of the drawing office’s strengths is its ability to realise the architectural visions of its competition drawings within the agreed time-frames and financial budgets. A special development department focuses, in particular, on new, so-called intelligent materials, new technologies and sustainability. Over the years, the firm has received considerable recognition in the form of prizes, awards and invitations to exhibit and publish its projects. The most recent prizes include Forum AID’s prize 2008 for Best Building in Scandinavia for Ørestad Gymnasium, which was also given an award in 2007 by the City of Copenhagen’s cultural foundation for “good and beautiful buildings”. Het Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam was chosen as the best building in the Netherlands in 2006, and was also awarded the Italian Dedalo Minosse Prize the same year. In 2006, 3XN was awarded the Architectural Review’s Future Projects Award 2006 for two projects: Nordhavnen Boliger and Middelfart Sparekasse. We won a silver medal at the Miami biennial 2005 for the Museum of Liverpool in the UK, and the same year the International Olympic Committee awarded the IOC/IAKS silver medal to the DGI building in Vejle, the first time the medal had been awarded to a Danish building. In 2005, we received the distinguished British RIBA Award, another first for a Danish project – for Sampension’s headquarters building in Gentofte in Copenhagen. At the biennial in Venice in 2004, 3XN was invited to present three projects: Slussen in Stockholm, a proposal for a new concert hall for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) and the bank Sparekassen Kronjylland’s head office in Randers. 3XN’s managing architect and owner, Kim Herforth Nielsen, has been awarded the Eckersberg medal and is a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.