The VELUX Daylight Grant Celebrates Innovative Architecture Graduates
Date
25 Jun 2025
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On Friday June 20th, we attended a day of celebration at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, where over 240 newly graduated candidates in design, architecture, and architectural technology, along with two PhD graduates, were honored with diplomas.
As part of this, we were happy to be able to award a VELUX Daylight Grant to Louise Noes Kolding and Sigrid Friis Christiansen from the programme ‘Heritage, Transformation and Restoration’ for the project: Børsen 2.0 – A Weaving of Times.
Taking Denmark’s most significant buildings from the Renaissance – Børsen – as a case study, the project examines and explores a range of transformation strategies that can ensure both the preservation and dissemenation of the cultural hertiage and conservation values – while at the same time bringing Børsen into a new era.
The jury said:
In the work with Børsen, it is proposed that the fire site be rebuilt with a new interior that weaves the times together. Through extensive archival studies, registrations and analyses, a new era is created that draws on the history of style but creates new situations for future use as a modern office building.
The light in the Stock Exchange Hall is re-established as direct sidelight from the large, reconstructed façade windows in interaction with the diffuse light that is filtered to the main nave through high window bands with polished frosted glass. The new wood carvings imitate the original gilding and draw profiles with light and dark wood, which absorb the light in different ways, just as the floor’s gloss reflects the light into the middle of the room.
