Dreyers Fond

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Dreyers Fond
Founded1976
Type charity
FocusArchitecture, law
Location
Area served
Denmark
Website www.dreyersfond.dk

Dreyers Fond (English: The Dreyer Foundation) is a Copenhagen-based Danish foundation founded by husband-and wife Thorvald and Margot Dreyer in 1976. Thorvald Dreyer was an architect. Margot Dreyer was a lawyer. The foundation supports projects and activities aimed at promoting the development of the architects’ and lawyers’ professions and their interaction with society. The annual Dreyer Honorary Award honors excellence in architecture as well as law. The foundation is also active in the market for real estate investments.

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Real estate portfolio

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Løvenborg

Løvenborg

Dreyers Fond is based in the Løvenborg building on Vesterbrogade in Copenhagen. The building is from 1906 and was designed by Anton Rosen. Dreyers Fond acquired the building in 2000 and subsequently undertook a renovation which received the Europa Nostra Award in 2004.

Vesterbrogade 32: Valencia Building

In September 2012, Dreyers Fond acquired the building at Vesterbrogade 32 in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen. It first opened in 1858 to design by H. S. Stilling under the name Thors Ølhal but later developed into the largest cabaret in the Nordic region under the name Valencia. The complex has been renovated by Dorte Mandrup Architects and now houses the Association of Danish Law Firms. [1]

Højbro Plads 3: Warburg House

In October 2012, Dreyers Fond acquired the listed Warburg House on Højbro Plads in central Copenhagen. The 1,112 building dates from. It contains the coffee chain Baresso's first coffee bar and other tenants include Toga Vinstue and a cocktail bar. [2]

Fælledvej 19

In 2014, Dreyers Fond acquired two buildings on Fælledvej at No. 19 in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen consists of a residential building on the street dating from 1858 as well as an industrial building from 1908 in the courtyard. [3] In 2015, Holscher Nordberg Architects completed a renovation of the industrial building which now contains 6 apartments. [4]

Dreyer Honorary Award recipients

Architecture

YearRecipient [5] Motivation
2016 Praksis Arkitekter for elaborate works that produces urban place bound architecture with concern to traditions [6]
2016 Kristine Jensen
2015 Dan Stubbergaard for the studio's brilliant ability to embrace the city's daily life in unpretentious and animating frames. [7]
2014Frank Maali and Gemma Lalandafor their empathetic and imaginative transformations of historic buildings and urban spaces.
2012 Marianne Levinsen for her poetic and empathetic works with landscape and urban space.
2011 Bjarke Ingels for his dauntless and surprising way of thinking how to build and live.
2010 Helle Søholt and Jan Gehl, Gehl Architects for the couple's compelling way to bring focus on the human dimension of urban planning worldwide, with the slogan: Cities for people.
2009Richard Leplastrierfor his genuine understanding of the true meaning of sustainability, based on a philosophy best summed up by the motto: "Let’s cultivate less!"
2008Steen Høyerfor his inspiring work in developing the art of landscaping and establishing overall quality settings for a sustainable development of open land
2007Erik Christian Sørensenfor his lifelong contribution to architecture and his unique work as an instructor and professor at the School of Architecture.
2006 Jørn Utzon because he managed through his way of working with architecture to clarify the connection between inspiration, ideas, creation and work in such way so he will always be an educative and inspiring role model for others
2005Signe and Christian Cold, Entasis for its sensitive and calculated completion of its projects that are carried out with brilliance, magic, unusually high quality and great awareness of architectural methods
2003 Stig Lennart Andersson for unusual sensitivity, discipline and respect for details and materials
2003 Dorte Mandrup for her ability to maturely, originally and independently interpret time
2002 Lene Tranberg and Boje Lundgaardfor their significant artistic work on many beautiful buildings in a very broad spectrum
2001 Knud Holscher for his great talent for styling, from overall planning and architecture, to design
2001 Nils-Ole Lund for his gifted way of engaging in questions surrounding architecture and for being one of the principal organizers in the establishment of the Århus School of Architecture
2001 Marianne Ingvartsen for her engagement in teaching and practical work and competitions within urban renewal and housing
2001Jens Fredslundfor his considerate and high quality work with the restoration of buildings
2001 Knud Fladeland for his talented architecture work in many competitions with forward-looking and promising results
1999 Henning Larsen for his ability to create outstanding architecture that brings greater experiences than the assignments require
1998David Bretton-Meyerfor his significant contribution to raise the consideration to care and respect of our architectural heritage, including his restoration of neoclassical buildings such as for example the University Copenhagen
1997Knud Friis and Elmer Moltkefor a thorough approach to strength and quality regardless of the task or the budget – as well as the skill, professionalism and architectural nerve that supports the quality
1995 Tobias Faber for his importance to Danish architecture and for the quality of education within architecture and the development of the discipline
1992 Mogens Koch for demonstrating a level of quality that has been of enormous importance for Danish industrial design throughout his long life. The honorary award is a portrait bust for “Kuppelsalen” in Charlottenborg made by sculptor Knud Nellemose
1989The architecture prize was given to a publication about architect Johan Otto Spreckelsen’s structure “La Grande Arche de la Défence” in Paris
1988 Hanne Kjærholm for her high level of quality and individuality as well as her brilliant alignment of continuity and modernity
1985 Ulrik Plesner for his contributions as an architect and a teacher outside Denmark – in Sri Lanka and Israel
1984 Johan Fog and Per Følner for the Wasa project in Stockholm.
1982 Vilhelm Wohlert for his restoration of Copenhagen's Cathedral.

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