The neighbour of yesterday's post is another rather controversial building. It's a building that cost about 5.5 billion DKR (3/4 of billion Euros), which was 34% above the budget. It is of course DR Byen, the Danish Broadcast City. Apart from the money it cost 300 employees their job in an effort to plug the hole in the budget, and the General Manager, the Chairman and several members of the board of directors had to leave too.
It's a great building, designed with the sole purpose of making radio, television and multimedia productions. The main building looks very good in it's black and white. The blue cube next to it is the new concert hall for DR, a much acclaimed hall for broadcasting concerts that can seat an audience of 1800 in terraces all around the orchestra like an amphitheatre. I haven't been inside, but in the pictures I've seen it looks spectacular.
This building was overpriced for sure and cost a lot of jobs and goodwill to DR, and worse still; cuts in the programming, but my overall impression of the buildings is positive, even though I haven't been invited inside yet:-)
This building was overpriced for sure and cost a lot of jobs and goodwill to DR, and worse still; cuts in the programming, but my overall impression of the buildings is positive, even though I haven't been invited inside yet:-)
These are amazing! I really like the aesthetics of these! Great photos as well...this is a really fun theme! Have a great weekend! ~Janine
ReplyDeleteCostly but beautiful, with very distinctive features. The blue cube is amazing!
ReplyDeleteCertainly a very interesting building, but was it really worth the cost in terms of money, jobs and programming?
ReplyDeleteCan not believe this cost nearly one billion Euros. I do hope someday you'll be invited as a guest for one DR's program.
ReplyDeleteI do like the design, but as Jacob says, the loss of money, jobs and programming might not be worth it. Hopefully it will prove to be a good investment.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to tell that they are having seriuos problems with lack of heat in the winter and too much in the summer in the offices in the main building. Someone evidently forgot to dimension the A/C-system correctly.