Foster and Partners (London), Pickard Chilton (New Haven, Connecticut) and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners (New York) have each been invited to propose a design for the hotel. The architects have been chosen for their courage and ability to design striking, beautiful and spectacular buildings.
By August 2006 a committee consisting of Tommy Pedersen (Tivoli board member and CEO of Chr. Augustinus Fabrikker A/S), Søren Robert Lund (award-winning Danish architect) and Lars Liebst (Tivoli CEO) will choose a winner from the three proposals. After the necessary negotiations with the City of Copenhagen, the work will then proceed. Tivoli hopes to open the hotel in 2009 and is currently negotiating with high-profile hotel operators.
In addition to the 160-room hotel, Tivoli’s new building will have 5,000 square metres of luxury dwellings with views across the whole of Copenhagen City. There is no doubt that the new building will be spectacular and striking as it rises above Copenhagen’s six-storey, one-hundred-year-old town houses and the even older Latin Quarter and medieval buildings of central Copenhagen.
About the architects
Foster and Partners
Foster and Partners is an international studio for architecture, planning and design led by Norman Foster and a group of senior partners. The studio has established an international reputation with buildings such as the Swiss Re Headquarters in London, the New German Parliament (Reichstag) in Berlin, the HSBC Headquarters in Hong Kong and London, the Commerzbank Headquarters in Frankfurt, and the Center for Clinical Science Research at Stanford University, California.
www.fosterandpartners.com"This project creates an exciting opportunity to design a bold and elegant new landmark for this inspiring historical city. It also presents a unique challenge to connect with and enhance the beautiful and world renowned Tivoli Gardens through a contemporary intervention." Brandon Haw, Senior Partner.
Pickard Chilton
Pickard Chilton is recognised internationally for its master planning and design expertise for institutional, corporate, commercial, health care and academic clients. Since it was founded, the firm has executed projects worth well in excess of USD 2,0 billion in construction value. Recent projects include: the Four Seasons Centre, a 300,000 m2, 75-storey mixed-use Four Seasons hotel/residential/retail development in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; the CalPERS Headquarters Complex, a 100,000 m2 complex for the largest pension fund in the United States; 1180 Peachtree, a 50-storey high rise in Atlanta; and 300 North LaSalle, a 60-storey high rise in downtown Chicago.
“The sophisticated and rich history of Copenhagen combined with Denmark’s longstanding commitment to the arts is wonderfully represented by Tivoli. The addition of the Tivoli Hotel on the Copenhagen skyline will only underscore Denmark’s worldwide reputation as a leader in design and Tivoli as an international center of culture and entertainment.” Pickard Chilton
www.pickardchilton.com
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Since its formation in 1955, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners has completed more than two hundred projects in more than a hundred cities across North America and around the world. The firm's clients have included major corporations, private developers and public authorities, as well as educational, cultural and religious institutions. Among its best known works are the John F. Kennedy Library, the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, the U.S. Bank Tower (formerly Library Tower) in Los Angeles, the expansion and modernisation of the Louvre museum in Paris, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. The great diversity of building types that the firm has explored includes an extensive collection of tall buildings.
“It is a great honor to be invited to think creatively about a city as handsome and as historically rich as Copenhagen. The Tivoli Gardens have always played a unique and even magical role in the life of the city. Our task is to find a way to enhance the inherent qualities of this special place while celebrating the exciting dimensions of our time. We will explore the confluence between memory and invention.”
www.pcfandp.comTivoli CEO Lars Liebst is happy to comment on the hotel project. Please let me know if you wish to speak with him.