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What’s on our drawing board? Here’s the latest on our global projects and the thinking behind them
SRF FOR STRANGEWAYS AND CAMBRIDGE, UK, 03.2025
Place North West reports on the Strangeways and Cambridge Strategic Regeneration Framework for Manchester and Salford. We have drawn up the consultation draft together with Avison Young, Maccreanor Lavington, Feilden Clegg Bradley, Civic Engineers, Useful Projects, and Placed. Read more here.
ARCHITECTS WITHOUT BORDERS 03.2025
We hosted the Director of Architects Without Borders, Anton Ryslinge, who presented the organisation’s important work and methods. Among the audience were students from the Master of Urban Design programme at Washington University’s Sam Fox School. Read more about Architects Without Borders here.
REGENT ST., HAYMARKET, PICCADILLY CIRCUS 01.2025
We have been selected to the final shortlist for the appointment of a design team to redesign London’s iconic public spaces of Regent Street, Haymarket, and Piccadilly Circus. We collaborated with McGregor Coxall, the Contemporary Art Society, Maynard Design, Arup, and Jayne Earnscliffe.
SECOND PLACE COMPETITION ENTRY 01.2025
We earned second place in the competition to redesign Linz Hauptplatz – the main square in Linz, Austria. Our proposal “Tor zur Welt” (Gateway to the World) was developed in collaboration with Komobile and Kardorff. The proposal includes a pedestrian-friendly traffic flow and more non-commercial space. See more.
EXHIBITION OF OUR CONCEPT FOR LINZ, 11.2024
We are launching our city centre concept for Linz, Austria with an exhibition. From November 22nd the City of Linz will be exhibiting our concept in the Old Town Hall for two weeks. The extensive concept will guide all future planning and construction in the city centre for the next 10 years. See more.
LIFE TO HISTORIC STREET IN INNER CITY 10.2024
In the medieval quarter of Copenhagen’s city centre lies the street Hovedvagtsgade. We are appointed by the city to analyse how this side street can become more lively. As part of the proces we are reaching out to the public, and we are excited to collaborate with locals to unlock the street’s potential.
A GREEN TAKE ON “BIG BOX URBANISM” 09.2024
We have delivered a development plan that presents a new take on "big box urbanism". The plan advises the City of Helsingør on the potential to transform the urban experience of the shopping centre Prøvestencentret. Our proposal offers urban qualities and greenery in a currently traditional bigbox space. See more.
PODCAST WITH OLIVER SCHULZE 06.2024
Listen to Partner Oliver Schulze's interview with the “architekturforum – das Architekturmagazin aus Oberösterreich”. What does the term “sustainability” mean to us in our office culture, and how do we bring it to our urban design projects around the world? Listen to find out.
NEW OFFICE 06.2024
We have moved! Our new studio and showroom is double the size of our former space with custom furniture design by DUVALD. We cannot wait to welcome clients and collaborators to Niels Ebbesens Vej no. 17 in the Frederiksberg neighbourhood of Copenhagen – just down the street from our previous address.
SUMMIT FOR LIVELY CITY CENTRES, 06.2024
Partner Louise Grassov presents at the Summit for Lively City Centres in Holstebro, Denmark this month. Louise will advise on creating attractive and viable city centres. She will be drawing on her decades of experience working with cities from all over Denmark and beyond.
STUDY TOUR TO BELFAST, NI, UK 05.2024
Our team took a trip to experience Northern Ireland. Conflict throughout Belfast's history has left a mark on the city, which is now being actively repaired with social and ecological sustainability in mind. To us, this division emphasises the importance of community in urban schemes. See our vision for Belfast here.
SHARING KNOWLEDGE WITH CITY COUNCILS 04.2024
The Danish Architecture Centre invited Partner Louise Grassov to teach a seminar on strategic urban governance. The participants were local politicians of three Danish city councils: Solrød, Ringsted, and Hillerød. Thank you for the invitation and for some inspirational discussions.
JAN GEHL COLLABORATION 03.2024
Jan Gehl, the reknown Danish architect, asked us to support him advising the City of Holstebro on the regeneration of a former hospital site. Partner Louise Grassov travelled with Jan Gehl to Holstebro in Northern Denmark to give their shared view on how the open spaces are best transformed into a new neighbourhood.
WALKING AND CYCLING IN THE USA 01.2024
For Washington University in St. Louis, we have worked with MVLA and Trivers to create scenarios for the future on-campus network of walking and cycling paths. We are updating the campus paths and intersections surrounding the new Arts & Sciences Building and beloved Mudd Field.
CONNECTING HISTORIC TOWN CENTRE 01.2024
The City of Ringsted in Denmark has commissioned us to draw up a sketch proposal and pilot project for a pedestrian promenade connecting the historic town centre from east to west. The new pedestrian connection will serve to offer new urban experiences. We cannot wait to engage the local citizens later this year.
JAN GEHL AT SCHULZE+GRASSOV! 12.2023
Our friend and mentor Jan Gehl stopped by the office to share a lifetime of urban thinking with our team. The magnitude of his achievements over half a century touched us all deeply. We were proud to report back to him that the seeds he planted with Louise and Oliver still fire our passion at Schulze+Grassov today.
BBC REPORTING ON OUR NEW WATERFRONT 12.2023
Our framework vision for a new 10km long waterfront promenade in Belfast has been aired on the BBC and RTE national TV stations. Partner Oliver Schulze says "this is a generational opportunity for the city to redefine it's image and identity from the waterfront".
WATERFRONT FRAMEWORK FOR BELFAST 12.2023
We have completed a framework for 10km of urban waterfront in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. We led a process engaging a large group of stakeholders, building consensus around a planned transformation process channelling £1bn over investment in the next generation.
RECREATION IN COPENHAGEN HARBOUR 11.2023
We are supporting Københavns Roklub, a historic and active rowing club based in Copenhagen Harbour, to refurbish the open spaces surrounding their boathouse. As former industrial waterfront sites are transformed to dense mixed-use, the rowing club secures an open space for recreational access, benefitting life in the city.
LOUISE GRASSOV - A DECADE AS PROFESSOR 10.2023
For the 10th time Partner Louise Grassov is teaching Urban Design as Visiting Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, US. She is sharing key findings from our Copenhagen practice with the students in the Scan|Design Master Studio, and adds valuable perspectives on how to apply theories in practice.
FREDERIKSBERG BUSINESS AWARD 11.2023
We are nominated for the Frederiksberg Business Award 2023. Each year the City of Frederiksberg honours a local company in the municipality that “strengthens the positive development of Frederiksberg and is a role model in relation to green and sustainable transition,” as the criteria reads. Thank you for the honour.
STRANGEWAYS, HERE WE COME 10.2023
We have been appointed by Manchester City Council and Salford City Council as part of a team to develop a regeneration framework for the Strangeways and Cambridge districts in UK. The team is led by Avison Young and includes Maccreanor Lavington, Feilden Clegg Bradley, Civic Engineers, Useful Projects, and Placed.
LIVABLE COURTYARDS IN COPENHAGEN 10.2023
We are leading the refurbishment of our fourth courtyard in Copenhagen. The City of Copenhagen has asked us to turn a historic courtyard into a green and enjoyable oasis for residents in the street of Kapelvej in Nørrebro. Funded by the municipality, we are improving city life in historic parts of the Danish capital.
OLIVER SCHULZE’S GUIDE TO BERLIN 10.2023
Get Oliver Schulze’s guide to the best of Berlin. Danish magazine Byrummonitor asked our German-born Partner Oliver Schulze for architectural insider tips to Germany’s capital city. His list includes the historic Alte Potsdamer Straße that is currently being transformed into a pedestrianised street designed by us (in Danish).
RED BANK MASTERPLAN APPROVED 09.2023
Manchester City Council has voted to give planning consent to our masterplan for the Red Bank neighbourhood developed with our great collaborators at Maccreanor Lavington. Our plan was unanimously approved by the local politicians. See here how Dave Roscoe, Director of Planning, described our work.
INTERACTIVE BUILDING SITE 02.2020
Schulze+Grassov and Enemærke & Petersen have joined forces to develop an "Interactive Building Site" to address the biggest challenges experienced by local communities as developers execute major urban development projects. The project deploys our bespoke public life simulation platform and uses VR technology to give stakeholders access to an interactive world generated with input from experienced E&P building site managers. The work is funded by Realdania and the platform will help in the dialogue between the contractor and local communities in new projects.
KOLDING STEPS UP 12.2019
The City of Kolding is part of the Trekantsområdet of Denmark, the Triangle Region. In this industrial and commercial powerhouse of the Danish economy an entire region collaborates as a network of successful towns and cities, surrounded by beautiful landscape. We have been selected by the City of Kolding to help it become a more attractive urban destination in the region, strengthening the community of existing businesses and shops and improving the quality of buildings and open spaces in the city centre and surrounding districts.
Watch final presentation here
Watch final presentation here
ANDREA DYNNES AND JEPPE JENSEN +2 12.2019
To round off the academic training our graduates received at Danish universities, we sponsor them to take the "Plus 2" professional education programme run by the Danish Union of Architects and Designers. In the 2-year course they are paired with an experienced mentor in our office to reflect on their work in practice and they study part-time in groups to learn about professional practice. The education concludes with an exam similar to the RIBA Part 3 and the AIA professional accreditation examinations.
VISION FOR TORONTO 10.2019
The relocation of Bombardier from the Toronto Downsview area creates North America's largest urban regeneration opportunity on a site of over 300 ha within ten minutes transit of Downtown Toronto. In a fiercely competitive field we were selected into the final four competing teams with our long-time collaborators of Behnisch Architekten, Transsolar and Martha Schwartz and Partners. We were the responsible urban designers for the masterplan that focused on creating an ecosystem of networked employment sites to underpin mixed-use urban development with a fully climate-adapted public realm.
TRANSFORMING INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE 09.2019
The Siemensstadt in Berlin is a city district built from 1899 onwards as the headquarters for Siemens. Complete with workplaces, housing and infrastructure, the growing district attracted many workers to one of Germany's industrial powerhouses. Schulze+Grassov were chosen as urban designers to compete for a complete reinvention of the district as a modern Siemensstadt 2.0 in the years to come. Working with our friends at Dietrich Untertrifaller, Studio Dreiseitel and Mobility-in-Chain, we trained algorithms to visualise the potential that employment and R&D land uses have to create a lively city.
CITY OF SOUND 08.2019
Struer is the City of Sound, the home to Danish company Bang & Olufsen. As the commercial harbour serving the agricultural hinterland is restructuring, a major opportunity has arisen to grow the city structure into the harbor area, right adjacent to the city centre. Here, the city will create new public destinations, workplaces and homes in a very privileged location. Our development plan proposal focussed on a city district with opportunities and invitations for people of all ages.
DESIGN GUIDE FOR KOLDING 08.2019
As part of our work for The City of Kolding we’ve developed a design guide for ground floor tenants. The guide will strengthen the perceived stewardship of public spaces and the overall experience of the inner city. It provides a range of suggestions on how to create a more positive, inviting and animated environment on the ground floor, including building edges and the adjacent public space. The guide has been issued to all business and shop owners in the city centre who have welcomed it. Only a few months later, we’re already seeing the positive effects.
WITH DORTE MANDRUP IN NÜRNBERG 07.2019
For some time we have been looking out for a good opportunity to work with the team of Dorte Mandrup to explore collaboration. What better opportunity than to take our joint Danish team to Oliver's fatherland to bring Scandinavian sensibility to a post-war building icon sitting adjacent to the historic medieval structure of the Nürnberg city wall. Our project connects building and open space with a focus on improving pedestrian connectivity and natural urban habitat in this iconic location.
NEW BICYCLE BRIDGE 07.2019
Close to Louise's home in Valby big things are happening. The local train station has been transformed into a multi-modal hub that will become Denmark's fifth biggest transport hub. Metro, S-Train, Letbane, Øresund and national rail trains will all stop here. Many new buildings are being constructed already in this new emerging urban hub. We have drawn plans for a new pedestrian and bicycle bridge that will span several lines to improve accessibility across rail infrastructure.
MUNICH URBAN EXTENSION 06.2019
Munich is a fast-growing German city with a high quality of life. We are advising Austrian developer CA Immo on development proposals for an urban extension on the site of a former stone quarry adjacent to the existing S-Train station in München Feldkirchen. Working in a team with Behnisch Architekten, we are developing the plan for the public realm as a "Handbook for Public Spaces" to set out the design principles for all streets, paths, squares, courtyards and the green infrastructure. The new district will have to be developed incrementally to organically extend the town of Feldkirchen.
TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER 05.2019
The Danish Architecture Center runs a three year p/t professional educational programme "Strategic Urban Governance" for chief executives in local authorities. We were asked to plan and facilitate a professional study tour to Manchester and Liverpool where 28 Danish leaders met with their English counterparts and learned about the remarkable transformation of England's Northwest over the last generation. Experiences included learning about partnerships in urban development, sustainability, climate change, working with local communities and, most importantly, a pub talk in a Victorian pub.
CROSSING THE NECKAR 03.2019
In 2019 the IBA Heidelberg asked us to assemble a team to compete for the design of a sequence of three new pedestrian and bicycle bridges over busy highways and the river Neckar. Our twin bridges designed with UN Studio and Knippers Helbig frame the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the medieval core of Heidelberg. One of the bridges is proposed in massive timber construction to sequester carbon within the new structure.
CYCLING DTU 03.2019
Cycling to campus and cycling on campus is essential as a way of getting around in a smart way on Denmark's largest campus. We have been asked to provide the DTU with guidelines for new bicycle paths and parking over this 106ha campus. Our guidelines provide the basis for improving and extending the offer and making bicycling an attractive transportation alternative for all students, faculty and staff.
SAFE IN ST. LOUIS 02.2019
Campus perimeters are interfaces where the busy urban streets need to transform to create safe space for students, faculty and staff. In our East End transformation of the Washington University in St. Louis campus we introduced dedicated light signals for bicycles as a first in this county in the US. Having addressed how pedestrians and bicyclists can be safer on the campus we were appointed by the university with WSP to review the entire campus perimeter and to draw up intersection improvements all around this 100 acre campus.
OUT OF THE GROUND 01.2019
The Design District is London's new permanent home for the creative industries. It comprises of 16 buildings, designed by eight architects, set in the heart of Greenwich Peninsula. We designed the landscape of squares, streets, lanes and co-working yards that provide the glue between all the buildings. Our foundations and drainage have been constructed and we look forward to the arrival of trees and CNC-routed stonework for benches and tree pit surrounds.
SERVUS SEESTADT 01.2019
After four years as member of the advisory board of Wien 3420 in the Seestadt Aspern Oliver hands over the batton to Andreas Kleboth from Linz. Oliver has served two full terms on the advisory board that is responsible for quality management in Europe's largest new town under construction. Advising on hundreds of projects from inception to completion this advisory board is one of a kind in Europe. Oliver had a chance to guide the building out of a plan he had a hand in shaping himself as the author of the Gehl project "Partitur öffentlicher Raum", the iconic plan for all public spaces in the city in 2007. © Roman Koselsky
MONEY MADE IN GERMANY 12.2018
The Bundesbank spreads 5000 employees over several real estate sites in the City of Frankfurt. At the seat of the iconic brutalist main building next to the Frankfurt TV Tower the Bundesbank wants to consolidate its body of employees in existing and new buildings in an activated and attractive campus setting. Working with our long-time collaborators Behnisch Architekten we drew up a masterplan and used public life simulations to demonstrate how employees will be able to enjoy a range of open spaces as part of their new working day.
CLOUDBURST COLLABORATION 09.2018
S+G, EnviDan and Colas have been awarded funding by Realdania to develop the second generation of our climate adaptation project “Vandvejen” (Waterways). The funding allows us to test new sustainable construction principles and material prototypes for our innovative urban rainwater management system. With this product we will help cities and land owners capture and retain rainwater locally, taking pressure off municipal drainage systems.
PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE BRIDGE IN ST. LOUIS 08.2018
The first section of the new pedestrian and bicycle bridge designed by Ayers Saint Gross in collaboration with Schulze+Grassov is being installed over Forest Park Parkway in St. Louis. The 18-foot bridge will attract more than 600,000 users per year and help to connect the 68-hectare university campus with nearby university housing areas and leisure destinations. The project is part of a range to measures by Washington University in St. Louis to promote walking and cycling to campus.
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PROJECT DELIVERY IN LONDON 08.2018
S+G have been appointed by contractor Volker Fitzpatrick to deliver the technical design and construction support for a fine-grain network of pedestrian-friendly squares, streets and lanes in London’s Design District on the Greenwich Peninsula. Our innovative shared co-working yards will shape the identity for four unique clusters of creative businesses operating out of 16 buildings designed by architects from England and Spain. Our open spaces will establish the bustling connective tissue of open spaces connecting the 1,800 creative workers and their visitors. © Knight Dragon.
TRANSFORMING DTU 07.2018
Denmark's Technical University campus in Lyngby is the biggest university campus in Denmark. Built in the post-war period the campus was situated 20km outside the dense city of Copenhagen, along a new motorway and without access by rail or transit. We were hand-picked to lead a team including Henning Larsen Architects and others to draw up a strategic campus plan to facilitate an aggressive growth agenda to consolidate DTU's status as an elite university. Our plan has been adopted by the DTU Board of Directors in June 2018. © Tomorrow
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY SHORTLIST 07.2018
Together with Behnisch Architekten of Boston we have been shortlisted to a major university project on the Princeton University Campus in New Jersey. The historic campus was established in 1756 and the university is rated as one of the best universities in the world today. The campus has been the home to 63 Nobel prize laureates.
CONSTRUCTION COMMENCED IN THE UK 07.2018
The site hoarding to our Greenwich Peninsula project has gone up and construction has started on London's first purpose-built design district, complete by 2020. The site hoarding has already become a popular surface engaging the community where people stop, look, play and take photos. The artwork to the site hoarding and the adjacent street were installed to illustrations designed by HATO of London.
GREENING HISTORIC COURTYARDS 06.2018
The sketch design for our three historic urban courtyards has gone through public consultation with local residents and is now awaiting approval from the city council. We look forward to working on the technical project and building three exemplary landscaped courtyards fit for increasing the quality of life for residents of dense urban blocks in the centre of Copenhagen.
GLÜCKAUF ZUKUNFT! 05.2018
The German coal mining company RAG has invited us to spend a day visiting one of the remaining active coal mines in Germany before they stop extracting coal by the end of 2018. The wonderful RAG team at Prosper-Haniel took us 1200m underground where we took a monorail train system right up to the face where coal is extracted. This was an unforgettable and intense experience during an emotional time for the German coal mining community that will cease all coal production by the end of 2018.
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