Scaledenmark and Bjarke Ingels Group have signed an agreement of collaboration for the showing of VM Bjerget (known as VM Mountain). The guided tour includes a visit to the interior of one of the suburban homes located on 6th floor of the Mountain.

Opened in 2008, the VM Mountain was a breakthrough project for the young Danish star-architect Bjarke Ingels and his BIG team. The signature project challenges the traditional idea of the four-sided housing block as the only valid structure for housing and has set new standards in BIG’s home country Denmark as well as abroad – it has won many prizes including the prize for the world’s best housing project at last year’s World Architecture Festival in Barcelona.

The building houses 80 apartments, of which all except two are single-story flats. On average they measure 100 m2, and each includes a private terrace of about the same size. The homes are cleverly placed on top of a parking garage, or rather a parking cathedral with a ceiling height of 16 metres, sparkling with light and colours.

Scaledenmark has now included the VM Mountain in its standard visits. We will keep informing our guests of the activities of the VM Mountain via this blog.

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We already told you about the special Bauhaus-tours which our network partner Ticket B offers in Dessau this year. Now Ticket B also cooperates with Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, which shows a huge anniversary exhibition called “Modell Bauhaus“. Throughout the exhibition period – between 22 July and 4 October – Ticket B offers three special half-day tours to selected buildings in and around Berlin as well as a day trip to the Bauhaus city Dessau. These tours, guided by specialised architects who present interesting commentaries and anecdotes about the Bauhaus and related topics, lead to numerous historic and contemporary buildings and architectural projects.

And there’s a great new feature on the website of Ticket B: the tours are bookable online via PayPal for anyone who would like to participate.

Bauhaus School in Dessau

Café Kornhaus in Dessau

Villa on Rupenhorn peninsula, Berlin

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