The starting point was this magnificent experience of actually watching fish in their element. Designing The Blue Planet we wanted to stage a totality of the experience one has visiting an aquarium. The Blue Planet building site is in Copenhagen, at the island of Amager, right at the coast of Øresund, north of Kastrup Havn, close to the Copenhagen Airport, and viewed from a plane the whirlpool shape will show in its full.Īpproaching on the ground, one will experience the building as floating in a circular reflection pool, and a walk through its interior is a travel through several organic worlds. Indeed, from the round centre hall of the building the different parts are ‘whirled’ in the slightly curved sequence of rooms. The Blue Planet, 3XN's competition win for the new Denmark’s Aquarium, is inspired by the whirl streams of the sea, shoals of fish, and swirling starlings turning the sky black. Website: The Blue Planet Aquarium comes from the studio of the world renowned 3XN architects, designed for a location in Denmark it is set to open in 2013.

Location: Kajakvej, 2770 Kastrup, Denmark, Copenhagen Greisen, Martin Rejnholt Frederiksen, Torsten Wang, Simon Hartmann-Petersen, Mans Nijkamp, Ulrich Pohl, Kasper Guldager Jørgensen, Martin Jonsbak, Lasse Lind, Jesper Thøger Christensen, Mogens Bruun Jepsen, Carsten Olsen, Pernille Uglvig Jessen, Stine de BangĬlient: The Blue Planet Building Foundation (Realdania, Knud Højgaards Fond, Tårnby Kommune) Project Team: Kim Herforth Nielsen, Jan Ammundsen, Bo Boje Larsen, Stig Vesterager Gothelf, Eva Hviid-Nielsen, Majbritt Lerche Madsen, Rasmus Hjortshøj, Peter Feltendal, Bodil Nordstrøm, Christina Melholdt Broegaard, Nis Timmer, Christian Bundegaard, Ida S.

Blue planet aquarium