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Infobox Architectural Practice|image= Storebæltsbroen close.jpg|caption= The Great Belt Bridge |name= Dissing+Weitling|architects= Steen S. Trojaborg
Poul Ove Jensen
Daniel V. Hayden
Stig Mikkelsen|partners= Steen S. Trojaborg
Daniel V. Hayden
Stig Mikkelsen |city = Copenhagen |founded= Start date|1971|significant_buildings= Danish National Bank
DR (broadcaster)|DR Television Headquarter
National Bank of Iraq |significant_works= Great Belt Bridge
Femern Bridge
Stonecutter's Bridge |awards=| Dissing+Weitling is an architecture and design practice based in Copenhagen , Denmark . The founders and namesakes Hans Dissing and Otto Weitling founded the firm upon the death of Arne Jacobsen as a continuation of his office where both had been key employees.cite web|url= http://www.e-architect.co.uk/architects/dissing_weitling.htm|title=Dissing + Weitling Architects, Denmark|publisher=e-architect|accessdate=2009-07-20

Dissing+Weitling is particularly notable for the design of a great number of bridges around the world, ranging from small pedestrian and bicycle bridges to some of the longest bridges in the world, including the Danish Great Belt Bridge|Great Belt and Femern Bridge s.

History


Hans Dissing and Otto Weitling were key employees at Arne Jacobsen 's office and they founded Dissing+Weitling in 1971 upon his death to continue and complete his unfinished projects. These included a city hall in Mainz , Germany , which has been extended also by Dissing+Weitling in 2008, a holiday resort on the north German island of Fehmarn , the Embassy of Denmark in London|Danish Embasssy in London . In 1972, the firm won competitions for the IBM Centre in Hamburg and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf , establishing the firm's name in its own right. Hans Dissing died in 1998 and Otto Weitling retired from the firm in 2002. Key architects and partners of the past were: Erik P. Handschuh, Poul Ove Jensen, Pouli H. Møller, Bodil A. Schaltz, Reinhard Tölke, Teit Weylandt.
Current partners are: Steen S. Trojaborg, Daniel V. Hayden, Stig Mikkelsen.

Selected Projects


Buildings


  • Mainz City Hall (Rathaus), Mainz , Germany (completed 1971)

  • Danmarks Nationalbank|Danish National Bank , Copenhagen, DK (completed 1971)

  • IBM|IBM Centre , Hamburg , Germany (completed 1974)

  • Embassy of Denmark in London|Danish Embassy , London , UK (completed 1977)

  • Central Bank of Iraq , Bagdad , Iraq (completed 1985)cite web|url= http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp? site_id=838|title=Central Bank of Iraq|publisher=Archnet|accessdate=2010-06-13

  • Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen#K20|K20 Art Gallery , Düsseldorf , Germany (completed 1986)

  • Sonofon|Sonofon Headquarters , Copenhagen , Denmark (completed 1998)

  • Parliament of Denmark renovation and interior design, Copenhagen, DK (completed 2004)

  • Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek renovation, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • DR (broadcaster)|DR Television Headquarter , Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark (completed 2006)

  • University of Copenhagen Faculty of Humanities|Faculty Library , University of Copenhagen , Copenhagen, Denmark (completed 2008)

  • Crowne Plaza|Crowne Plaza, Copenhagen , Ørestad , Denmark (completed 2009)

  • Rambøll|Rambøll Headquarters , Ørestad , Copenhagen, Denmark (completion 2010)


    • Under construction
  • Office Complex, Vilnius , Lithuania (competition win 2008)cite web|url= http://english.dac.dk/visNyhed.uk.asp? artikelID=5068& soegningID=63748& ord=dissing|title=DISSING+WEITLING WINS IN VILNIUS|publisher=Danish Architecture Centre|accessdate=2009-07-20


    • Bridges


  • Great Belt Bridge , Funen / Zealand , DK (completed 1998)

  • Mittellandkanal Bridges, Hannover , Germany (completed 1999)

  • Øresund Bridge , Denmark/Sweden (Competition winner. The project completed in 2000 is not their winning design scheme)

  • Nelson Mandela Bridge , Johannesburg , South Africa (completed 2003)

  • University Bridge , Malmö , Sweden (completed 2004)

  • Bryggebroen , Copenhagen, DK (completed 2006)

  • Munksjön Bridge, Jönköping , Sweden (completed 2007)

  • Stonecutter's Bridge Hong Kong , China (Competition winner. Detail design by Arup. Completed in 2009)

  • Åbroen , Copenhagen, DK (completed 2008)

  • Tradeston Bridge , Glasgow , Scotland (completed 2009)

  • ADNEC Bridge , Abu Dabi , UAE

  • Sitra Interchange, Sitra, Bahrain

  • Pirbrua over Nidelva, Trondheim , Norway


    • ;Under construction
  • Old Nahe bridge , Bad Kreuznach , Germany (completion expected by 2012)

  • Constantine Bridge , Wilaya de Constantine , Algeria (completion expected by 2012)

  • Botniabanen Bridges, Nyeland- Umeå , Sweden

  • Strait of Messina Bridge , Italy

  • Qatar-Lusail bridge , Lusail, Qatar (competition win 2007)cite web|url= http://www.building-supply.dk/portal-b2b/article/view.html? id=12859|title=Cowi og Dissing+Weitling i norsk samarbejde|publisher=Building Supply|accessdate=2009-07-20

  • Gerald Desmond Bridge|New Gerald Desmond Bridge , California , USA (completion 2016)

  • Forth Road Bridge#Proposals for a new Forth Road Bridge|New Forth Crossing , Scotland (competition win 2008, completion 2011-2016)


    • ;Proposed
  • Femern Bridge , link between Denmark and Germany (competition win 2009, completion 2018)


    • Awards


  • Nykredit Architecture Prize|1999 Nykredit Architecture Prize


    • References


    Reflist
    Category:Architecture firms of Denmark
    Category:Bridge architects
    Category:Modernist architecture in Scandinavia
    Category:Architecture firms based in Copenhagen
    Category:Winners of the Nykredit Architecture Prize
    Category:Companies established in 1971

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