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COPENHAGEN
Straw | Osko + Deichmann 2010
COBE is a Danish architecture firm founded in Copenhagen in 2006 by
architect Dan Stubbergaard. COBE focuses on architecture and design – from
buildings to public space to large scale urban planning. Since it was founded,
COBE has createdseveral high-profile, prize-winning projects in Denmark and
abroad. Among the firm’s most important projects are the combined library
and culture centre in Copenhagen’s north-west district, Nørreport Station – the
busiest railway station in Denmark – and the development of the Nordhavnen
harbour area in Copenhagen – currently the largest urban development project
in Scandinavia.
For COBE, architecture is not a matter of a certain style or form, but is more
importantly about its adaptability to the local context, its social life and its users.
The aim is to create social interaction through all projects. That is why COBE
has developed a community of architects with the capability to approach all
scales of architecture, from urban planning to buildings and public space. It is
these elements combined that create the physical conditions for people’s lives
and their social interaction.
COBE is based in a refurbished warehouse centrally located on “Paper
Island”, on Copenhagen harbour front. The firm currently employs approximately
80 dedicated architects, urban planners and thinkers of different nationalities.
