PETERSEN BRICKS - DENMARK

‘Memories of Colour’

was the title of a web siminar on the teaching platform TIFA Institute on 3 July. The speakers were the artist Tanya Goel and the textile designer Mia Morikawa, both from India, and the Danish artist Malene Bach. The architect Peter Zinck represented Petersen Tegl. He talked about the natural colours found in brick and presented a range of projects in which various architects have used those colours to create buildings with a special look. Peter made his presentation from the Petersen Tegl Studio in Copenhagen.

New architecture award to Francesca Torzo

On 30 June, the architect Francesca Torzo had the great honour of receiving the first-ever Italian Architecture Prize, which is promoted by Fondazione MAXXI and Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, and sponsored by MIBACT.

The award recognises the best building project completed between January 2017 and December 2019 by an Italian designer or a studio based in Italy. The winner is Torzo’s “Z33 – House for Contemporary Art and Architecture” in Hasselt, Belgium.

In the words of the jury: “The project stood out due to its profound ability to interpret the history of the block and the buildings that surround it, as well the spatial and expressive intelligence shown in configuring it into an exhibition space perfectly suited to contemporary needs. The jury also underlined the precision and unique quality of the presentation, which both illuminated the construction process and conveyed the architect’s personality.”

Petersen Tegl and Francesca Torzo worked very closely together on the development of a custom-made brick for the façades. The rhombus-shaped brick was hand-moulded in a combination of German and Danish clay.

30 June architect Francesca Torzo received the first edition of the »Italian Architecture Prize«, promoted by Fondazione MAXXI and Fondazione La Triennale di Milano and sponsored by MIBACT. The award ceremony was held at the MAXXI Museum in Rome.

NEWS

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STUDIO

Engineer Kasper Køppen, owner of the engineering company Regnestuen, used the Petersen Tegl Studio at Amerika Plads when end-April he gave an on-line presentation on brick to his students at The Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architects in Copenhagen.

NEWS

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NEWS

Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium by architect Francesca Torzo. READ MORE >

HUSDRÖMMAR

As part of the Swedish television series about dream homes, Husdrömmar, architect Gert Wingårdh visited Petersen Tegl. See the programme in Swedish on www.svtplay.se (13/1/19)