The Architect · Mads · Copenhagen
The Black Diamond
A polished black box that faces the water and cracks open to the sky — the smartest late-90s building here.
Schmidt Hammer Lassen's 1999 black-granite-and-glass library extension leaning over the harbor, split by a glazed atrium.
— Mads, The Architect
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