Israels Plads- by COBE, Sweco Architects- Copenhagen, Denmark- 2014⠀ ⠀ @helenalegslong from @poeticcollective's 2020 "FLUID" and @cyrusbnt from a 2016 @Nikesb CPH edit.⠀ ⠀ Expanded site plan @cobearchitects⠀ ⠀ “Until 1958 the square, then called Grønttorvet, was the location of the city’s major wholesale market. This is where retailers as well as individual clients came to buy fresh food; the market was known for its charming as well as chaotic atmosphere. Soon however, the traffic and logistics that came with the market were no longer manageable in the restricted space of this inner-city neighbourhood and the wholesale market had to find a new location.⠀ ⠀ At the end of the 1950s Grønttorvet became an empty spot in the middle of the city, without any real function, and the potential of an undiscovered urban space emerged. Grønttorvet, renamed Israels Plads ten years after, experienced the same lot as other large inner-city markets, such as the famous Halles in Paris, for instance, which were forced to move to a southern suburb in 1971. The big empty spot left after this transformation created unique possibilities for establishing a major new urban square in the centre of the city.”⠀ ⠀ Text via @toposmagazine #cpharchitecture (at Israels Plads) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-w6otIFJYP/?igshid=2w4ct5mcwh4i
