Dissing+Weitling

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Dissing+Weitling
The Great Belt Bridge
Practice information
Key architects	Steen S. Trojaborg Poul Ove Jensen Daniel V. Hayden
Partners	Steen S. Trojaborg Daniel V. Hayden
Location	Copenhagen
Founded	1971
Significant works and honors
Buildings	Danish National Bank DR Television Headquarter National Bank of Iraq

Dissing+Weitling is an architecture and design practice 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.^[1]

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 and Øresund Bridges.

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 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: Dieter Fremerey, Erik P. Handschuh, Poul Ove Jensen, Pouli H. Møller, Bodil A. Schaltz, Reihnard Schmidt-Petersen, Reinhard Tölke, Teit Weylandt, Stig Mikkelsen. Current partners are: Steen S. Trojaborg, Daniel V. Hayden.

Selected Projects

Buildings

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  Mainz City Hall (1971)

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  K20 Art Gallery

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  Central Bank of Iraq (1985)

• Mainz City Hall (Rathaus), Mainz, Germany (completed 1971)
• Danish National Bank, Copenhagen, DK (completed 1971)
• IBM Centre, Hamburg, Germany (completed 1974)
• Danish Embassy, London, UK (completed 1977)
• Central Bank of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq (completed 1985)^[2]
• K20 Art Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany (completed 1986)
• Sonofon Headquarters, Copenhagen, Denmark (completed 1998)
• Parliament of Denmark renovation and interior design, Copenhagen, DK (completed 2004)
• Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek renovation, Copenhagen, Denmark
• DR Television Headquarter, Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark (completed 2006)
• Faculty Library, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (completed 2008)
• Crowne Plaza, Copenhagen, Ørestad, Denmark (completed 2009)
• Rambøll Headquarters, Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark (completion 2010)
• Royal Golf Center, Ørestad (completion 2011)
• ECCO Hotel and conference building, Tønder, Denmark (completion 2012)

Bridges

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  Tradeston Bridge (2009)

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  Trans-Rhumel Viaduct at night, rendering (2009)

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  Trans-Rhumel Viaduct in construction (2013)

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  Trans-Rhumel Viaduct completed (2014)

• 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 (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
• Constantine Bridge, Wilaya de Constantine, Algeria (inaugurated on 05.07.2014)

Under construction

• Old Nahe bridge, Bad Kreuznach, Germany (completion expected by 2012)
• Botniabanen Bridges, Nyeland-Umeå, Sweden
• Qatar-Lusail bridge, Lusail, Qatar (competition win 2007)^[3]
• New Gerald Desmond Bridge, California, USA (completion 2016)
• Queensferry Crossing, Scotland (competition win 2008, completion 2011-2016)^[1]
• İzmit Bay Bridge in Turkey, a 2,682 m (8,799 ft) long road bridge with 1,550 m (5,090 ft) longest span^[4] (completion 2010-2017).

Awards

• 1999 Nykredit Architecture Prize
• 2015 WAN Transport Award for The Bicucle Snake^[5]

References

1. "Dissing + Weitling Architects, Denmark". e-architect. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
2. "Central Bank of Iraq". Archnet. Retrieved 2010-06-13.
3. "Cowi og Dissing+Weitling i norsk samarbejde". Building Supply. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
4. "Izmit Bay bridge". Dissing+Weitling architecture. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
5. "Simple. Elegant. Joyous.". World Architecture News (in Danish). Retrieved 13 March 2015.

External links

• official site