Er der en arkitekt til stede? (2021 - 2025)

In Copenhagen, Denmark’s largest hotel has been erected right where people enter the capital and its harbor. The goal wasn’t to recreate the criticized 1990s monoliths by the waterfront—but the hotel’s facade shows we’ve hardly learned anything. Ane Cortzen chases down who is responsible for the building turning out this way.

Lilli Gyldenkildes Torv in Horsens promised golden opportunities and green surroundings as part of a new public housing project—but today it stands as a car-oriented development rather than a people-friendly space. Ane Cortzen seeks to understand why Horsens didn’t get the airy, green construction they were promised.

In Asserbo Plantation, massive summer-house developments have led to the felling of mature trees and natural landscape. Why can’t good architecture coexist with nature? Ane Cortzen ventures into the forest to ask where the trees went.