model of Vadehavscentret / The Wadden Sea Center in Vester Vedsted - completed in 2017

With the title Irreplaceable Landscapes, this major exhibition at the Danish Architecture Centre starts with the new Icefjord visitor centre and research centre that overlooks the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier in Ilusulissat on the west coast of Greenland.

Then, in the main exhibition space at BLOX, are models and information panels for an astounding trilogy of buildings - the three new visitor centres designed by Dorte Mandrup in three different countries that overlook three of the distinct seascapes of Vadehavet / The Wadden Sea.

Vadehavscentret - The Wadden Sea Center - overlooks the marshland of Vester Vedsted in Denmark; the Vadehavscenter - Wadden Sea World Heritage Center - in Wilhelmshaven in Germany incorporates the remains of a war-time bunker and Vadehavscenter - The Wadden Sea Center - is on the tidal waters of Lauwersoog in the Netherlands.

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Irreplaceable Landscapes continues at the Danish Architecture Centre until 26 May 2019

DORTE MANDRUP ARKITEKTER,
edited by Tomas Louri,
Arvinius + Orfeus 2014

Includes a foreword by Kent Martinussen of the Danish Architecture Centre; a conversation between Dorte Mandrup and Christian Bundegaard; an essay by Hans Ibelings and entries for 29 buildings - each with a short assessment and divided into four sections under the headings Move/Play, Community/Live, Add/Change and B-Sides.

The layout is simple and good - so deceptively simple meaning a clever and well thought-through layout and graphics - and exemplary typography.

The ‘epilogue’ has a list of contributors. a list of awards and nominations, a list of staff and a useful chronology of work rather than an index.

Dorte Mandrup