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The 2020 Environmental Performance Index has named Copenhagen as the best environmental performing country of 180 studied countries. The report states: “Denmark leads the world on climate change action, having reduced its CO2 emissions by more than half since peaking in 1996 (World Bank, 2019). Denmark’s capital city of Copenhagen has slashed emissions through investment in wind energy and biomass, adoption of district heating and cooling systems, and expansion of bike lanes to the point...

Copenhagen is the second city to recieve the label "Unesco world capital of architecture". In 2023, Copenhagen will also host the World Congress of Architects. It is a good opportunity to reflect together with the world and continue our road to carbon-neutrality.

Bornholm has been chosen as the most sustainable island in Europe! Samsø, another Danish Island, is a close second. Bornholm has been focusing for a long time on the green transition. Bornholm, among other things, has distinguished itself by beginning the phase-out of coal and oil early. And with limited financial resources available installing renewable energy sources. The result is an efficient and reduced energy consumption and large reductions in CO2 emissions. Other initiatives as...

Good news from the mobility front! The construction of the Femern belt, a tunnel from Denmark to Germany will start next year. This was decided by the Danish Parliament, after five years of struggling getting the project approved. With its 18 kilometer it will be the longest tunnel of its kind. Soon it will be possible to travel between Rødby (DK) and Puttgarden (GE) in 7 minutes by train and 10 by car, instead of the usual 45 minutes on the ferry.  

It has been three weeks today that Denmark started to close down. As much as possible we have been trying to stand together, but stay apart. As many others, we have said goodbye to our office space at Bloxhub and are writing this from our home office. Everyone had to make tough decisions which were necessary to flatten the curve. And it seems to be working for now. On Monday Mette Frederiksen, prime minister of Denmark, announced that with continuous efforts and stabilizing numbers, we can...

Scaledenmark proudly introduces its second instagram page: @exploringcopenhagen_ !

The account is closely linked to the book and is built up in the same way: 12 months, 12 neighbourhoods. Every month we will provide you with Copenhagen's best practice solutions of that particular neighbourhood, the design tools employed and select quotes from the book. In this way we provide a new platform for a continuous debate and we invite you to join! Whether you are a tourist, student, designer...

This year’s meeting in Scotland was a great success, thanks to the tremendous efforts of our colleagues! We had some great exchange of experience, workshops, lectures and of course an amazing tour through the city of Glasgow. We are so excited to include four new members into the network: Warsaw, Sao Paolo, Bregenz and London!

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Nine Suisse architects from Atelier M2 faced the Copenhagen winter with us and went around several projects in Ørestad, such as Tietgen Student housing and the Mountain dwellings. They ended up biking along the harbor, where they explored the public buildings that revived the inner city, amongst others our own home base BLOX. We had many interesting discussions on the strong design culture in...