After 6 years of delivery, the Birkegade Penthouse Rooftop Apartments are finally under construction! Elmegade district is probably one of the most densely populated areas of inner Nørrebro, Copenhagen. Located at the top of an existing 5 storey residential building, the project is aimed for completion this Fall.

The concept for the Birkegade project is to optimize and fully exploit its rooftop providing an edenist garden and landscape where it previously did not exist.

The Two Seasons Hotel project is currently underway in Stavanger, Norway. It is scheduled to be completed by the end of this summer.

The project is located along a busy street in the Stavanger City center. Two hundred and fifty rooms float in a ribbon configuration above an existing parking garage. Lifting the hotel rooms from the street front enables us to secure privacy and quiet for the visitor and create a living ground floor activated by shops, a restaurant and cafe, as well as the lobby. The ribbon mediates a potentially problematic context by hovering closest to the ground adjacent to an old Stavanger neighborhood and by lifting dramatically when facing a nine story apartment tower.

JDS and KLAR are pleased to announce that our daring harbour project ‘Kalvebod Waves’ is going into tender 6 weeks from now. Kalvebod Waves will start ramming its first pile into the harbour bed this September. Finalization is expected in May 2011, just before the summer starts.

Due to extra funding from LOA, Kalvebod Wave will now contain the radical feature of a kayak jump, which adds to the project’s general agenda of creating an environment which assures the citizens and visitors to Copenhagen a close encounter with the city’s harbour space.

This weekend, on the 13th and 14th of March, the International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup Nordic will be held at Holmenkollen with over 30,000 people are expected to attend. The jump is to be held as a trial test before the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships next year in Oslo, 24th of February – 6th March 2011.

On the 3rd of February, the International Ski Federation (FIS) certified the New Holmenkollen Fyr (HS134) that the facility passed all technical and safety standards required for international ski jumping competitions.

Though the ski jump is not fully completed, plans are being met and carried through as scheduled. On the 3rd of March, Annette Sagen became the first official ski jumper to jump 106.5 meters during the opening ceremony of the Skijump, which set a new Holmenkollen jump record. From the 20 ski jumpers taking part of the opening ceremony, Rune Vetla, a local ski jumper had the longest jump at 141 meters, breaking and currently holding the record at Holmenkollen hill!

After this weekend’s event, JDS Architects will continue the remaining work on the completion plans until 2011. At the end of 2010, visitors can enjoy a bar at 418 meters above sea level and get the experience of looking down the in-run like a ski jumper. At the top of the of the 69 meter inclined-cantilever tower, a 110m2 plateau will reveal an amazing view over the city of Oslo and its fjords.

In DAMn Magazine No. 24 (April/May) Julien De Smedt and Jesse Seegers interviews Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of MOS (NYC). For a discussion of last year’s PS1 pavilion and more, look on newsstands in the coming weeks.

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X Atelier and Bureau Spectacular are being simultaneously exhibited at Land of Tomorrow in Lexington, Kentucky.

The opening reception is tonight! March 5, 19h00 @ Land of Tomorrow.

Land of Tomorrow is located at 527 E 3rd St, Lexington, Kentucky 40508, USA (google maps here)

More information on Land of Tomorrow HERE

More info on Bureau Spectacular HERE

Julien De Smedt is lecturing at the Escola da Cidade in São Paulo on Friday, March 5th at 18.30 – for more information call  (11) 3258-8108.

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photography by Håkon Mosvold Larsen/Scanpix via Aftenposten.no

Anette Sagan has been announced today to be the first jumper on the New Holmenkollen Ski jump.   The jump will take place at the opening ceremony this Wednesday, March 3rd between 19.00 and 20.00.

Read more here, here and here [Norwegian text].