11-22-2024DESIGN Poul Henningsen hated bright lights and glare So he designed better lights that today are in cities worldwide BY Diana Budds Many of these luxe lamps had much humbler beginnings. They can trace their core principles to a street light Henningsen invented for a 1919 competition held by Copenhagen Energy, the city’s public utility. At the time, Copenhagen was undergoing electrification and transitioning from gas lamps, which were highly ornate dragon-shaped fixtures by an architect named Vilhelm Dahlerup The city wanted to develop a new aesthetic to go along with them the manufacturer that produced his products believed that well-designed lighting was a social “At a time when a lot of people didn’t necessarily have electricity at home, creating good street lighting was particularly important,” says TF Chan, the author of the new Phaidon book Louis Poulsen: First House of Light “That was their first interface with technology.” Henningsen, who practiced architecture, thought the extreme brightness from electric light bulbs required a new approach. The fixtures available at the time were adaptations of lamps intended for candles and other traditional sources of illumination which didn’t mask the harshness of a light bulb His innovation was to diffuse and disperse light in order to make experiencing it more comfortable He devised a glass cylinder with an enamel shade that masked part of the bulb and directed the light downward at oblique angles His minimalist design won the public utility’s competition and was installed in the city to mixed reviews and eventually Copenhagen Energy removed some of the shades to make the lamp brighter the concepts Henningsen explored in this prototype continued to influence his work as a lighting designer Henningsen began a career-long collaboration with lighting manufacturer Louis Poulsen in 1924 which included light fixtures for international expositions Among the higher-profile designs were spiral-shaped outdoor lights for Tivoli Gardens an amusement park that inspired Disneyland “A lot of the lamps that we might think of today as domestic designs actually had their origin in public spaces and really important public spaces as well that were central to civic life in Denmark,” Chan says “This very distinctively Danish company comes out of a unique set of circumstances and reflects all the social changes that you’ve seen in Denmark over the years.” In the 1960s Henningsen and Louis Poulsen revisited street lighting since by then light bulbs had become even brighter which of course is good for illuminating spaces but also meant that the architect and designer had to devote more thought into making sure that the users wouldn’t be experiencing glare,” Chan says They created a system designed to illuminate street traffic evenly by angling the light to follow the direction of headlights That system was installed in a few cities in Germany and Denmark (although it turned out to be flawed because it could cause glare for oncoming traffic) Henningsen’s philosophy continued to influence public lighting Jens Møller-Jensen created an affordable street lamp for a planned suburb outside of Copenhagen called Albertslund His prototype was inspired by Henningsen’s early design and had a very similar shape—a glass cylinder with a metal hat—but was much simpler and affordable to produce which originally appeared in a small town in Norway All of which to say: The designer’s personal obsession with making lighting in the public realm comfortable as well as functional ought to be revisited as a civic ideal The final deadline for Fast Company’s Brands That Matter Awards is Friday, May 30, at 11:59 p.m. PT. 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Learn More Danish hard rock veterans PRETTY MAIDS played their first concert in nearly five years this past Sunday The band was billed as KINGMAKERS for the "secret" performance which served as a warm-up gig for PRETTY MAIDS's official return to the live stage on Thursday June 20 at the Copenhell festival in Copenhagen Fan-filmed video of both concerts can be seen below Among the other already announced PRETTY MAIDS shows for 2024 are the Time To Rock festival PRETTY MAIDS will also perform aboard the 2025 edition of the annual Monsters Of Rock Cruise 2025 aboard Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Joy and depart from the Port Of Miami Last December, PRETTY MAIDS singer Ronnie Atkins, who is battling stage four cancer, spoke to Jorge Botas of Portugal's Metal Global about the announcement that he and his bandmates were planning to reunite in 2024 to play several concerts we were planning on a few selected PRETTY MAIDS shows six festivals during the summer or something It depends on how much it conflicts with our individual schedules since the things are what they are and PRETTY MAIDS we got some really good offers and we haven't played together since 2019." He continued: "I know there's a lot of fans out there that wanna see the band again It all ended in a wrong way because I got sick So we just wanna go out and play a couple of shows It all depends a little bit on my health as well now I've been releasing a lot of music for the last couple of years 'Cause I like the close encounter with the fans whether it's a big festival with 50,000 or it's 200 people in a club Last September, before the PRETTY MAIDS reunion was officially announced, Atkins was asked in an interview with Power Metal Point if there were any plans for him to do anything again with the long-running Danish hard rock outfit He responded: "There's been issues between the band since 2019 and we still have some business through 40 years we have to discuss sometimes on mails I think it's gonna end up that we will bury the hatchet He continued: "It's always been a love-hate relationship but I think we might do some selected gigs next year or something like that Because the whole thing ended in a bad way and I got sick and we had a brand new album out in 2019 and we never hit the road with it Atkins painted a more bleak picture of PRETTY MAIDS' future telling Dawn Osborne of TotalRock: "We haven't seen each other since 2019 And there are some issues within the band that haven't been [resolved] I'm not saying we won't get back together one day It would need some talks — a band meeting and some talk — before we go on PRETTY MAIDS continued to release albums usually followed by European and Japanese tours came out in November 2019 via Frontiers Music Srl "Future World" was released by CBS in 1987 the album had sold 300,000 copies worldwide 165 on the Billboard 200 in the United States "Future World" was produced by Eddie Kramer who was reportedly fired during the recording sessions The band then finished the LP with engineer Chris Isca who was credited as co-producer on the album Mixing duties were shared between METALLICA RAINBOW and MORBID ANGEL producer Flemming Rasmussen known for producing multi-platinum albums by JOURNEY After being diagnosed with lung cancer in 2019 the now-59-year-old Atkins underwent at least 33 radiation and four chemotherapy treatments in the fall of that year before being declared cancer-free Atkins joked that the secret to keeping his voice in shape was "twenty cigarettes a day and little drink now and then." was released last October via Frontiers Music Srl What a blast playing to such a fantastic audience tonight 👊 Posted by Pretty Maids on Thursday, June 20, 2024 A few of us were invited to a warm-up gig a few nights ago Posted by The Pretty Maids Journals on Thursday, June 20, 2024 What a wonderful energetic and absolutely fantastic show by our favorite band Posted by The Pretty Maids Journals on Thursday, June 20, 2024 When walking from the Albertslund commuter train station in Denmark the sight of a man in a tub screaming in horror while his bathroom is flooded by sewage will probably catch your eye The odd fountain is the work of Danish artist Peter Land The artist uses the piece to raise the question of what happens when the social framework that forms the basis of a society breaks down or is challenged a well-functioning society is something people take for granted These bathroom structures breaking down could be described as a plumber's nightmare; a metaphor for what would happen if society should suffer a similar fate Land is also aware of the response art like this can provoke particularly from members of the community who pass it often The fact that the piece elicits strong reactions was especially evident when someone beheaded the man sitting in the tub.   "Scenarie" is located right outside of the north exit of the Albertslund commuter train station in Copenhagen The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern This 42-foot tribute to the workforce still reminds us to pause and recharge Believed to be inspired by the Trevi Fountain in Rome Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture wears a crown with birdhouses on his head This giant work of Cappadocian pottery includes a memorial for the artisan who created it A jumble of concrete on the corner of one of London’s terraced buildings is actually a work of art A police marksman and his dog observes convicted killer Peter Madsen threatening police with detonating a bomb while attempting to break out of jail Tuesday in Albertslund Carrying a "pistol-like" object and a fake bomb strapped to his abdomen a Danish man serving a life sentence for the sexual assault and murder of a journalist aboard his homemade submarine bluffed his way out of prison before police quickly recaptured him Peter Madsen, whose high-profile case received international attention following the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall in 2017, was seen in a photo published by the Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet sitting in the grass with his hands behind his back as police nearby trained their weapons on him At a news conference, Copenhagen West Region police confirmed that Madsen escaped Herstedvester Prison in Albertslund on the outskirts of the capital using a fake pistol and a belt that looked like a bomb. He was recaptured less than a mile from the prison, police said, according to the daily Jyllands-Posten was quoted by Ekstra Bladet as saying that Madsen had been driving a white van when officers surrounded him and then pulled him from the vehicle was first arrested in 2017 following his rescue after the sinking of the submarine he designed and built who had been working on a story about the inventor was last seen alive on the vessel just before its sinking It was more than a week before authorities found her torso washed up ashore in Copenhagen She was later found to have more than a dozen stab wounds in and around her genitals Madsen initially told police he had dropped Wall safely ashore but later changed his story multiple times – first, saying he had "buried her at sea" after a heavy hatch fell on her head Madsen's UC3 Nautilus submarine sits on a pier behind police tape in Denmark's Copenhagen harbor in 2017 as authorities investigated the disappearance of Swedish journalist Kim Wall Madsen later was sentenced to life in prison for Wall's murder Divers later found Wall's severed head in a weighted bag and further investigation revealed no signs of blunt force trauma to the skull casting doubt on Madsen's version of events claiming that she died of carbon monoxide poisoning aboard the sub Before trial, Madsen admitted to dismembering Wall's body but continued to maintain he had not killed her He was found guilty of premeditated murder and sexual assault and sentenced to life in prison in 2018 In a documentary that aired last month, Madsen reportedly admits for the first time to the murder Become an NPR sponsor You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed Denmark (AP) — A Danish man convicted of torturing and murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine made a dramatic but brief escape from a suburban Copenhagen prison Tuesday reportedly taking a hostage to break out before police recaptured him Peter Madsen was quickly apprehended near the Herstedvester prison where he is serving a life sentence for the killing of Kim Wall Justice Minister Nick Haekkerup called the escape attempt "very serious." Police said Madsen appeared to be carrying fake weapons including a "bogus" explosive belt he threw away something that looked like a firearm," said Mogens Lauridsen operations chief of the suburban Copenhagen police one of Denmark's most notorious criminals was captured about five minutes after the escape and around 500 meters (less than a half-mile) from the facility Prison personnel who followed him saw that he had jumped into a passing white van and informed police Lauridsen said that they don't believe Madsen had an accomplice Police officers then found on Madsen "what seems to be a belt with explosives," Lauridsen said officers stepped back and Madsen was left on the side of a road while a bomb squad investigated the belt Prison head Hanne Hoegh Rasmussen told a news conference that the escape was being investigated and that he couldn't immediately confirm media reports that Madsen took a female prison psychologist hostage inside the prison "No one has been injured physically," Hoegh Rasmussen said adding that prison staff were getting psychological support The facility has 161 cells and has a wing with inmates who have psychiatric Madsen was sentenced in the Copenhagen City Court to life in prison for killing Wall a 30-year-old reporter from Sweden who he lured aboard his homemade submarine in 2017 with the promise of an interview He dismembered her body and dumped it at sea shortly after apologizing to the victim's family who were present in the appeals court The sensational case has gripped Scandinavia He claims she died accidentally inside the submarine but he has confessed to throwing her body parts into the Baltic Sea Life sentences in Denmark usually mean 16 years in prison but convicts are reassessed to determine whether they would pose a danger to society if released and can be kept longer Madsen built rockets in his spare time but never went to college he launched his homemade UC3 Nautilus submarine Wall had planned to interview Madsen for a story on a rocket program he founded in 2014 with the goal of building a crowdfunded rocket to launch himself into space his cash flow had dried up and he had canceled the planned test launch but the boxer you are looking for has not been found Please click here for go to WBA champions page In a night of mixed emotions at the ANB Arena.. Usage of Content   Confidentiality Clause Greater Copenhagen is on its way to testing driverless electric shuttles which could form part of a future light rail link connecting Denmark’s capital to Albertslund Gladsaxe and other outlying municipalities The LINC project is part of efforts to ensure easier connection to mass transit by combining intelligent autonomous technology and sustainable urban planning The light rail and the driverless buses will help ensure that we also have smart green and flexible ways to transport us collectively The upcoming light rail is a decisive step but the driverless buses can ensure that even more people will choose green and collective transport each carrying up to 15 passengers and legally driving at up to 20km/h on public roads in traffic will be tested over six months at the Danish Technical University (DTU) campus (12km north of central Copenhagen) with more than 500 dedicated users Several smaller demonstrations and tests will be done on closed roads at the Hersted Business Park in Albertslund (14km west of Copenhagen) The tests are designed to collect information about the shuttles’ performance and commuters’ experience in collaboration with IBM and Roskilde University With the help of nearly 300 Bluetooth beacons on the campus the app will enable users to see the shuttles’ locations and allow researchers to collect data on how people use them LINC is an attempt to bridge the ‘first and last mile gap’ – where public transport is often not close enough to people’s homes or workplaces – and attract people to mass public transport the solution is the light rail system scheduled for completion in 2025 The Greater Copenhagen light rail will have 29 stations and connect Copenhagen with 10 municipalities on its outskirts This is all part of the LOOP City plan to develop Copenhagen around easily accessible public transport It is expected that the autonomous shuttles will increase the attractiveness and efficiency of public transport by reducing waiting times and providing schedules that respond to public demand the project will give urban planners a better idea of the physical and digital infrastructure needed to integrate autonomous public transport into sustainable urban planning the Danish Road Traffic Authority approved three autonomous Easymile shuttles made in France for use in the project They had to meet Danish safety requirements for traditional vehicles One aspect of this year-and-a-half-long process was obtaining the correct documentation for electromagnetic radiation which is emitted by the electric shuttles Several hurdles remain before the first passenger can set foot on a shuttle The entire application – a project and route description a risk assessment and assessor's safety report ­– has been submitted to the Danish Road Directorate for processing This must then be approved by the Minister of Transport and the Danish Parliament’s transport committee The legislation allowing the system to be put in place will need to strike a balance between innovation and safety testing the shuttles could start on the DTU campus late in autumn 2020 COVID-19 and ongoing restrictions on public transport have delayed the smaller demonstrations and tests planned in Albertslund LINC was formerly named TUPPAC: Transforming Urban Planning Providing Autonomous Collective Mobility The project is backed by the ERDF and Urban Innovative Actions an EU initiative that gives cities funding to implement bold and creative projects Seven partners are working on the project: the municipalities of Albertslund and Gladsaxe private companies Nobina Denmark and IBM Danmark ApS the Technical University of Denmark and Roskilde University and non-profit partnership organisation for a green transition Gate 21 Total investment for the project “LINC – Transforming Urban Planning and Providing Autonomous Collective Mobility” is EUR 4 214 120 with the EU’s European Regional Development Fund contributing EUR 3 371 296 through the “Regional Research and Innovation” Operational Programme for the 2014-2020 programming period The investment falls under the priority “Development of TEN-T and multimodal transport” Commissariat Général à l'Egalité des Territoires (CGET) Khaleda Rahman is Newsweek's National Correspondent based in London, UK. 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You can get in touch with Khaleda by emailing k.rahman@newsweek.com either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content A Danish inventor convicted of murdering journalist Kim Wall on his submarine has been recaptured after he escaped from a prison in suburban Copenhagen where he reportedly took a hostage and threatened guards with a bomb Peter Madsen fled the Herstedvester Prison after threatening a prison employee with what appeared to be a home-made explosive on Tuesday The killer managed to get around 500 meters from the prison before he was recaptured in a massive police operation Video footage published by the Danish newspaper shows the convicted killer sitting in the grass with his arms behind his back while armed police watch him from a distance Madsen had a "belt-like object" around his stomach Police on Twitter confirmed a man had been arrested in Albertslund after attempting an escape experts determined the belted object around Madsen's abdomen was fake police said at a news conference on Tuesday afternoon said no one at the prison was injured during Madsen's escape but added that the incident had traumatized employees Madsen has previously been placed in solitary confinement due to suspicions that he was plotting an escape The prison was placed on a lockdown on Tuesday with inmates confined to their cells so they could be searched Madsen was sentenced to life in prison in 2018 after he was found guilty on charges of premeditated murder aggravated sexual assault and desecrating a corpse an award-winning freelance journalist from Sweden who had reported from around the globe for outlets including The New York Times and Time magazine boarded Madsen's homemade submarine in Copenhagen harbor on August 11 She was reported missing when she did not return from the trip Her mutilated body was discovered on a beach more than a week later maintaining that her death was an accident He admitted throwing her remains into the sea But in a television documentary that aired recently, Madsen finally confessed that he killed her. The confession was made to a journalist who secretly recorded more than 20 hours of phone conversations with Madsen for the documentary called The Secret Recordings with Peter Madsen Madsen replied "yes" when the journalist asked if he had killed Wall Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground Newsletters in your inbox See all danish artist thomas dambo has installed six open air treasure hunt for the public to experience and enjoy dambo’s huge wooden creatures are ‘hidden’ in rødovre all six sculptures have been carefully crafted from recycled scrap wood and have been built alongside the help of local volunteers ‘little tilde’ in installed in vallensbæk ‘little tilde’, ‘teddy friendly’, ‘thomas on the mountain’, ‘oscar under the bridge’, ‘hill top trine’, and ‘sleeping louis’ are hidden in ‘secret’ locations across the danish woodland. each of the six giants have been built by hand by dambo and a team of volunteers who sourced scrap wood from local fallen trees and broken down buildings the enormous figures can each be engaged and interacted with like ‘little tilde’ who hides 28 birdhouses inside its belly whose gaping mouth can be entered and played within.  the sculpture is made solely from local scrap wood scavenged by dambo and his team ‘teddy friendly’ is hidden in høje taastrup local trees have been used to create the figure’s ‘fur’ ‘thomas on the mountain’ can be found in copenhagen ‘thomas’ overlooks the municipality of albertslund the team had help from a group of young volunteers from a local school ‘oscar under the bridge’ is installed in ishøj the sculpture is made from scrap wood from a torn down watermill and broken pallets from local industries ‘hill top trine’ can be spotted in copenhagen visitors can crawl into the palms of her hands and overlook avedøresletten ‘sleeping louis’ takes a nap on a hill in a secret area in rødovre AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style Copenhagen is the site for a huge experiment in smart lighting that could save money cut carbon emissions and even alert police to suspicious activity By Aviva Rutkin HUNDREDS of lights are being erected in a Danish industrial park in a suburb of Copenhagen When ordinary citizens pass through the area they’ll be taking part in a massive experiment to work out how we should light our cities in the future Street lamps can be a major drain on resources: lighting accounts for around 6 per cent of global greenhouse emissions Los Angeles spent around $15 million and pumped out 111,000 tonnes of carbon to light up its streets No wonder councils want to find ways of making lighting smarter and more efficient Copenhagen is setting up the Danish Outdoor Lighting Lab (DOLL) in a suburb called Albertslund which will open to the public on 18 September engineers will have freedom to toy with the different products while foreign officials who are curious about the technology can comparison-shop for their hometown DOLL is also part of a long vision for Copenhagen itself: the city hopes to install smart lights as part of a quest to become carbon-neutral by 2025 and one of the lights exhibited at the lighting lab will probably be chosen for the job “The city hopes to install its own smart lights as part of a quest to become carbon-neutral by 2025” The street lamps will be installed along 9.2 kilometres of road in Albertslund covering about 1.5 square kilometres in total 25 companies have reserved space for their products in parcels of land 300 metres square Every lamp will be assigned a separate IP address so they can be monitored remotely The city will be testing smart lamps that dim if it is sunny or automatically alert the city when something isn’t working Dutch firm Tvilight will be testing street lamps that can adjust their brightness based on nearby movement And the Technical University of Denmark will be trying the CopenHybrid – a mast that powers a street lamp by a combination of wind and solar energy weather conditions and UV radiation will also be fitted throughout the site to see what sort of environment the lights are operating in All this will help work out which lights are making the biggest difference in terms of lowering costs and emissions Several cities around the world are already investigating smart street lighting in the biggest project of its kind to date Los Angeles swapped its entire system for LED lamps – along with a pilot remote control system made by General Electric is rolling out lights that can detect motion and weather conditions DOLL wants to encourage more cities to make the change by demonstrating what different types of lamps can do “You can say that we are an instrument of the green transition,” says Flemming Madsen Visitors will be able to run tests on the system by using sample data from their own city Madsen says they are already planning for a visit from Chinese and Taiwanese officials later this year “We have a huge urban playground,” he says In the future, DOLL hopes to incorporate other types of smart city services into their living lab The same network that monitors miles of lighting can be configured to manage parking spaces or water meters “People don’t want to solve one issue and then having to do a major investment again to solve the next issue and the next and the next,” says John Baekelmans of Cisco “There is a variety of technologies which you need to tie together in a way to make it a seamless experience.” Fitting street lamps with complex sensors – and hooking them up to a larger network that controls the city will have implications far outside of lighting director of the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York If a street lamp senses a sudden rush of people in an area that’s usually deserted at night police could be tipped off to go check the area out “Really smart street light systems are going to be much more about the sensors the street lights have The technology is getting very mature very quickly,” Karlicek says This article appeared in print under the headline “Bright lights Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker The Local Europe ABVästmannagatan 43113 25 StockholmSweden Please log in here to leave a comment The city authorities are busy implementing a climate change plan to turn Copenhagen ‘carbon neutral’ by 2025 An integral element part of the plan involves the city redesigning its streetlighting solutions.  Worldwide lighting is the source of six per cent of global greenhouse emissions The Danish Outdoor Lighting Lab (DOLL) is set to open in September 2014 and will stretch for about 9km along the roads of the Copenhagen suburb Albertslund and will cover about 1.5 square kilometers in total Hundreds of lights will be installed in Albertslund and its local citizens will take part in a major experiment to examine how future cities should use street lighting As many as 25 companies have reserved space for their products in parcels of land of 300 square meters Each lamp is being assigned a separate IP address to enable remote monitoring The project plans to test smart lamps that dim if it is sunny and brighten if a few people pass by at night.  Other smart lights will be used to automatically send out alerts when they are not operating correctly weather conditions and UV radiation will also be fitted throughout the site to see what sort of environment the lights are operating in and will indicate which lights are making the biggest difference in terms of lowering costs and emissions DOLL wants to encourage more cities to make the change by demonstrating what different types of lamps can do and describes the project as a "huge urban playground" The project is described as a ‘Living Lab’ key account manager in Street & Outdoor Lighting Thorn Lighting A/S explained it is important to show customers what is the effect of dimming the lights by 50 percent.  "It is our experience that customers are becoming more confident at turning down the lights when they see it work in practice they think that if we dim the lights by 50 or 70 percent they can see that in an outdoor environment it can be difficult to tell the difference." DOLL plan to incorporate other types of smart city services into their living lab We work in the Living Lab with the intelligent city in which we can measure and manage other aspects of urban space This could be sensors in bins that indicates when to be emptied This webpage uses Cookies and JavaScript in order to work properly We strongly recommend to enable those technologies in yur browser In case of wrongly displayed content you can request necessary information at e-mail address wwwadmin@mzv.cz The Czech classical music was played by the Vlach Quartet Prague in Albertslund on 10 and 11 November 2011 The Embassy of the Czech Republic in Copenhagen in cooperation with the Danish-Czech Society and the church Opstandelseskirken in Albertslund near Copenhagen arranged a concert by the Vlach Quartet Prague on 11 November 2011.  The quartet consisting of Jana Vlachová (violin) Jiří Kabát (viola) and Mikael Ericsson (violoncello) played pieces by the Czech composers Josef Suk (1874–1935) Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) and Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884) they played a movement from a quartet composed by the young viola player Jiří Kabát From the left: the Czech consul Barbora Stejskalová the Czech Ambassador Zdeněk Lyčka and Mikael Ericsson Around 150 guests came to the modern church Opstandelseskirken to hear the music After the concert all guests were invited for a small refreshment The Vlach Quartet Prague also performed in Albertslund the day before InvitationArticle in Albertslund Posten If you are interested in receiving information about our events The information on this page is intended for journalists If you click NO you will come back to Mynewsdesk.com Alma Property Partners (‘Alma’) and AG Gruppen has completed an agreement for acquiring land with the purpose of building approximately 200 residential units near the future light rail station ‘Glostrup Nord’ in Greater Copenhagen The local plan application has been prepared by Holscher Nordberg Arkitekter and is now being processed by the municipality of Albertslund The purchase has been completed in a joint venture between Alma and AG Gruppen is looking forward to the new partnership: “AG Gruppen has for many years been developing strong partnerships in the industry and we are expecting a lot from our new partnership with Alma Property Partners The cooperation has been 100% transparent from day one and with our joint mindset I am confident that we will deliver a strong residential project to Albertslund.” The project is expected to start in the beginning of 2021 and will consist of circa 200 residential units in various sizes The apartments will be in the range of 45-100 sqm in buildings that are 4 to 9 floors as well as detached houses and 2-story apartment to the west we will create a residential area with a focus on diversity and a varied supply which is attractive for all generations The green urban spaces in the area will be kept free of cars creating a safe and nice environment for everyone The land is situated in the northern part of Albertslund with a fantastic location close to the Vestskoven forest and residential community of Herstedøster Landsby which is currently a mixed industrial and commercial area will in the coming years be transformed into a modern district with a mix of residential and commercial properties is very pleased and welcomes Alma Property Partners’ and AG Gruppens’ effort in the area: “We have great ambitions for the development of Hersted where we wish to create a new value-based town/district that shows how the UN's global goals and strong cooperation between landowners education and citizens can boost the green transition and the city's development A huge thank you to Alma Property Partners and AG Gruppen for the good cooperation and the good intentions of the project which we are very much looking forward to seeing implemented.” This is Alma’s first Danish investment in its second fund after hiring Hüseyin Meric (Head of Denmark) and opening the Danish office last year Hüseyin Meric is looking forward to the new partnership with AG Gruppen and is excited about the investment opportunity in the attractive residential segment in Greater Copenhagen: “We continue to see a demand/supply imbalance for new and modern residential apartments in Greater Copenhagen and the route along the new light rail is an obvious focus area for us This location is ideal with Glostrup Nord station opening within a few minutes walking distance and the short distance to large green areas We look forward to being a part of developing a completely new district in Greater Copenhagen with a focus on diversity and on working closely with AG Gruppen who is a highly experienced residential developer.” For further information, please contact:Hüseyin Meric, Head of DenmarkAlma Property Partnershm@almaproperty.dk+45 31 65 00 42 Alma Property Partners is a real estate investment company focused on the Nordic Region Alma Property Partners manages two opportunistic funds Alma Property Partners I AB and Alma Property Partners II AB The company is built on the principles of active ownership and strong alignment with investors and is therefore fully owned by senior team members that work actively within the company The team has extensive experience and a strong track record in Nordic real estate investment and asset management Alma Property Partners aims to become the leading Nordic real estate investment company and the partner of choice for institutional investors seeking real estate exposure in the Nordic Region has opened an office in Copenhagen by hiring Hüseyin Meric who has 10 years of real estate and investment experience will head the newly established Danish office ​Alma Property Partners and the property developer AG Gruppen have agreed to build 231 apartments comprising approximately 18,860 sqm in the Herlev area of greater Copenhagen The zoning plan has just been approved and the project will aim to obtain DGNB Gold certification Alma and AG Gruppen sold the residential property located in Herlev (greater Copenhagen) to Pensam The property consists of 231 apartments comprising 18,824 sqm and it was one of the first residential development projects in the Marienlund area in Herlev which is undergoing a transformation supported by major infrastructure investments such as a new light rail station Alma Property Partners is a real estate investment company focused on the Nordic Region and manages three value-add real estate funds with over €700 million in capital commitments The company is built on the principles of active ownership and strong alignment with investors and is therefore fully owned by the management team Alma aims to be the partner of choice for institutional investors seeking real estate exposure in the Nordic Region When you choose to create a user account and follow a newsroom your personal data will be used by us and the owner of the newsroom for you to receive news and updates 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The country’s first Cycle Super Highway – which gives cyclists a safe, smooth ride and eliminates as many stops as possible, is now open, connecting central Copenhagen with the suburban town of Albertslund, 22 km outside the city. In addition to the orange stripe painted on the asphalt that indicates the route cyclists will also enjoy amenities such as air pumps safer intersections and traffic lights timed to average cycling speed The initiatives are intended as a way to encourage more commuters to travel by bicycle even if their commutes are longer than 10 km The newly opened Copenhagen-Albertslund route is the first of a planned network that when completed will comprise 26 Cycle Super Highways The network will increase the number of cycle lanes in Greater Copenhagen by 15 percent and is predicted to reduce public expenditure by EUR 40.3 million annually thanks to improved health “Eliminating traffic jams requires fewer people driving and more people cycling,” said Ayfer Baykal who heads Copenhagen City Council’s Technical and Environmental Administration “There are enormous gains to be had if we can get people to cycle in and out of the city Collaborating with our neighbouring municipalities to build the bike-bahns is the best thing we’ve done for cyclists since we started building cycle lanes 100 years ago.” A total of 22 municipalities in the Greater Copenhagen area have all collaborated to build the new network of cycle routes improve and link existing cycle lanes in Greater Copenhagen so commuters can quickly identify the easiest route available In addition to signs marking the new route an orange stripe has also been painted on the ground along its entire length “One in three people living in Greater Copenhagen say they would cycle more if it were easier to do so,” Vibeke Storm Rasmussen chair of the Greater Copenhagen Regional Council “The bike-bahn is the best thing we can do to make cycling a real alternative to driving for even more commuters the more we can reduce congestion and pollution – both of which will improve quality of life in Greater Copenhagen.” Before construction on the Copenhagen-Albertslund route began cyclists were asked to test ride the distance Their conclusion was that their commute was disturbed most by red lights and crossroads traffic signals along the route are timed to give cyclists a ‘green wave’ Timers also indicate when lights will change which also include redesigning intersections to make them easier for cyclists to cross Source: denmark.dk Your email address will not be published. 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Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); who was convicted of killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall in a self-built submarine in 2017 was caught by Danish authorities on Tuesday after he briefly escaped from prison.Photos from the scene showed Peter Madsen sitting on the grass next to a road a few hundred metres from the prison 4 min readPublished 21 October 2020 9:44am ShareGet SBS News daily and direct to your InboxSign up now for the latest news from Australia and around the world direct to your inbox.Your email address *Morning (Mon–Fri) Denmark: A Danish police officer was hit by shots Tuesday near a police station in suburban Copenhagen prompting security outside police stations to be stepped up across the country sent out two brief tweets Tuesday confirming the 8.20 a.m Police later tweeted that an officer had been hit and a "possible" shooter had been arrested "It's a dark day for all of us when those who are supposed to protect us are attacked," Justice Minister Soeren Pape Poulsen said "It is terrible that it can happen in Denmark." Local media showed officers in bulletproof vests with handguns and automatic weapons outside the Albertslund and Copenhagen police stations Denmark's National Police said security at all police stations had been increased "until the situation is clarified." The attack was the second such shooting in recent months a man shot two police officers — seriously wounding one — and a bystander in a Copenhagen neighborhood known for its thriving hashish trade Undefeated Danish cruiserweight Micki Nielsen (20-0 14 KOs) takes another step up the fistic ladder on Saturday when he opposes Italy’s Mirko Larghetti (24-1 16 KOs) in a 12-round contest at the Albertslund Music Theater in the Albertslund suburb of Copenhagen as he should be as Danish judges are notoriously partial to homegrown fighters Larghetti was competitive in his lone defeat a 12-round setback to Marco Huck in a failed attempt to lift Huck’s WBO World cruiserweight title the Italian has won three straight inside the distance The 23-year-old Nielsen is the younger brother of Patrick Nielsen the German promotional group that has made big inroads in Denmark formerly the fiefdom of promoter Mogens Palle When Team Sauerland opened a boxing gym in Copenhagen in 2013 A former WBA World super featherweight title-holder and WBA World lightweight title-holder Gamache is recognized as the only boxer from Maine to hold a world title Gamache retired with a 55-4 record after suffering a brutal second round knockout at the hands of Arturo Gatti on Feb Gatti weighed in for the fight at 141 pounds (a dubious reading) but was 160 on fight night according to the unofficial HBO scale 15 pounds heavier than the ill-fated Gamache The disparity opened a can of worms that was another black eye for the besotted New York Athletic Commission (a story best told by Thomas Hauser) Teddy Atlas trained Gamache for a small portion of his career Gamache worked as an assistant to Emanuel Steward at Detroit’s fabled Kronk Gym before taking his talents to Europe Danish boxers haven’t fared well when stepping up in class but Gamache is confident that Micki Nielsen is a future world champion 4 KOs) meets unknown Miklos Kovacs in a 6-round affair Ghana's undefeated Richard Commey (23-0 21 KOs) meets Anzor Gamgebeli (27-13-3) from the Republic of Georgia This is a tune-up fight for Commey who is next in line for a crack at Rances Barthelemy’s IBF World lightweight title Six other fights complete the 9-fight card Comment on this article It’s California vs Mexico: WBC Titlist Martha Salazar vs Alejandra Jimenez Shannon Briggs and David Haye Have A Lot in Common Japan’s Naoya “Monster” Inoue banged it out with Mexico’s Ramon Cardenas survived an early knockdown and pounded out a stoppage win to retain the undisputed super bantamweight world championship on Sunday Japan and Mexico delivered for boxing fans again after American stars failed in back-to-back days everyone is well aware that I like to brawl,” Inoue said showed the world and 8,474 fans at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas that prizefighting is about punching After massive exposure for three days of fights that began in New York City it was the casino capital of the world that delivered what most boxing fans appreciate- pure unadulterated action fights Monster Inoue immediately went to work as soon as the opening bell rang with a consistent attack on Cardenas One thing promised by Cardenas’ trainer Joel Diaz was that his fighter “can crack.” Cardenas proved his trainer’s words truthful when he caught Inoue after a short violent exchange with a short left hook and down went the Japanese champion on his back “I was very surprised,” said Inoue about getting dropped I made sure to not take that punch again.” but he did have trouble avoiding some of Cardenas massive blows delivered with evil intentions a look of total astonishment blanketed his face was never overly aggressive but kept that left hook of his cocked and ready to launch whenever he saw the moment There were many moments against the hyper-aggressive Inoue Both fighters pack power and both looked to find the right moment But after Inoue was knocked down by the left hook counter he discovered a way to eliminate that weapon from Cardenas the Texas-based fighter had a strong right too In the sixth round Inoue opened up with one of his lightning combinations responsible for 10 consecutive knockout wins Cardenas backed against the ropes and Inoue blasted away with blow after blow Cardenas turned Inoue around and had him on the ropes as the Mexican fighter unloaded nasty combinations to the body and head “I dreamed about fighting in front of thousands of people in Las Vegas,” said Cardenas Inoue looked a little surprised and had a slight Mona Lisa grin across his face the Japanese four-division world champion seemed ready to attack again full force and launched into the round guns blazing Cardenas tried to catch Inoue again with counter left hooks but Inoue’s combos rained like deadly hail Four consecutive rights by Inoue blasted Cardenas almost through the ropes The referee Tom Taylor ruled it a knockdown Cardenas beat the count and survived the round In the eighth round Inoue looked eager to attack and at the bell launched across the ring and unloaded more blows on Cardenas A barrage of 14 unanswered blows forced the referee to stop the fight at 45 seconds of round eight for a technical knockout win WBO featherweight titlist Rafael Espinosa (27-0 23 KOs) uppercut his way to a knockout win over Edward Vazquez (17-3 “I wanted to fight a game fighter to show what I am capable,” said Espinoza Espinosa used the leverage of his six-foot one-inch height to slice uppercuts under the guard of Vazquez And when the tall Mexican from Guadalajara targeted the body it was then that the Texas fighter began to wilt Though he connected against Espinoza in every round he was not able to slow down the taller fighter and that allowed the Mexican fighter to unleash a 10-punch barrage including four consecutive uppercuts The referee stopped the fight at 1:47 of the seventh round To comment on this story in the Fight Forum CLICK HERE The curtain was drawn on a busy boxing weekend tonight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas where the featured attraction was Japanese superstar Naoya Inoue appearing in his twenty-fifth world title fight Roman Cardenas for the unified 122-pound crown and Rafael Espinoza vs Edward Vazquez for the WBO world featherweight diadem) aired on the main ESPN platform with the preliminaries streaming on ESPN+ The finale of the preliminaries was a 10-rounder between welterweights Rohan Polanco and Fabian Maidana A 2020/21 Olympian for the Dominican Republic Polanco was a solid favorite and showed why by pitching a shutout punctuating his triumph by knocking Maidana to his knees late in the final round with a hard punch to the pit of the stomach the younger brother of former world title-holder Marcos Maidana fell to 24-4 while maintaining his distinction of never being stopped a rising force in the 140-pound division with the potential to become a crossover star advanced to 14-0 (12 KOs) with a second-round stoppage Juan Leon Olympian Fernando Vargas who had big money fights with the likes of Felix Trinidad and Oscar De La Hoya Emiliano knocked Leon down hard twice in round two – both the result of right-left combinations — before Robert Hoyle waived it off 29-year-old Japanese southpaw Mikito Nakano (13-0 12 KOs) turned in an Inoue-like performance with a fourth-round stoppage of Puerto Rico’s Pedro Medina had Medina on the canvas five times before referee Harvey Dock waived it off at the 1:58 mark of round four The shell-shocked Medina (16-2) came into the contest riding a 15-fight winning streak California junior middleweight Art Barrera Jr scored a sixth-round stoppage of Chicago’s Juan Carlos Guerra but the bout had turned sharply in Barrera’s favor when referee Thomas Taylor intervened Barrera improved to 9-0 (7 KOs). The spunky but outclassed Guerra, who upset Nico Ali Walsh in his previous outing Muskegon Michigan’s Ra’eese Aleem improved to 22-1 (12) with a unanimous decision over LA’s hard-trying Rudy Garcia (13-2-1) was making his second start since June of 2023 when he lost a split decision in Australia to Sam Goodman with a date with Naoya Inoue hanging in the balance Check back shortly for David Avila’s recaps of the two world title fights To comment on this story in the Fight Forum CLICK HERE who has acquired a new nickname – “The Face of Boxing” – is accustomed to fighting on Cinco De Mayo weekend Canelo was fighting outside the continent of North America and entering the ring at an awkward hour His match with William Scull started at 6:30 on a Sunday morning in Riyadh In the opposite corner was 32-year-old William Scull an undefeated (23-0) Cuban by way of Germany whose performance was better suited to “Dancing With the Stars” than to a world title fight Constantly bouncing from side to side but rarely letting his hands go Scull frustrated Canelo who found it near-impossible to corner him but one can’t win a fight solely on defense and the Mexican superstar was returned the rightful winner in a bout that was a fitting cap to a desultory two days of Saudi-promoted prizefighting Canelo became a fully unified super middleweight champion twice over Terence Crawford was in attendance and HE Turki Alalshikh made it official: Crawford (41-0 39 KOs) will meet in the Fight of the Century (Alalshikh’s words) on Sept 12 in Las Vegas at the home of the city’s NFL team each of Canelo’s last seven fights has gone the full 12 rounds In a match between the WBC world cruiserweight title-holder and the WBC world cruiserweight “champion in recess” (don’t ask) brought some clarity to the diadem by winning a narrow decision over Noel Mikaelian but the others gave the fight to “Jack the Ripper” by 115-113 scores A devout Muslim who is now a full-time resident of Saudi Arabia It was the first pro loss for Mikaelian (27-1) a Florida-based Armenian who was subbing for Ryan Rozicki The distracted CompuBox operator credited Mikaelian with throwing 300 more punches but there was no controversy avenged his shocking loss to Bruno Sarace with a unanimous 12-round decision in their rematch This was Munguia’s first fight with Eddy Reynoso in his corner Surace’s one-punch knockout of Munguia in mid-December in Tijuana was the runaway pick for the 2024 Upset of the Year Munguia was 44-1 with his lone defeat coming at the hands of Canelo Alvarez Munguia had won every round against Surace before the roof fell in on him but Munguia was the busier fighter and landed the cleaner shots It was the first pro loss for Surace (26-1-2) and ended his 23-fight winning streak In a 10-round heavyweight match fought at a glacial pace Martin Bakole (21-2-1) and Efe Ajagba (20-1-1) fought to a draw One of the judges favored Ajagba 96-94 but he was outvoted by his cohorts who each had it 95-95 15 more than he carried in his signature win over Jared Anderson He was never able to effectively close off the ring against the elusive Ajagba who fought off his back foot and failed to build on his early lead The fight between the Scotch-Congolese campaigner Bakole and his Nigerian-American foe was informally contested for the heavyweight championship of Africa heavy-handed Cuban light heavyweight Brayon Leon was extended the distance for the first time while advancing his record to 7-0 at the expense of Mexico’s Aaron Roche (11-4-1) Leon knocked Roche to the canvas in the fourth round with a right-left combination but the Mexican stayed the course while eating a lot of hard punches Photo credit: Leigh Dawney / Queensberry Promotions To comment on this story in the Fight Forum CLICK HERE Results and Recaps from Las Vegas where Richard Torrez Jr Mauled Guido Vianello Weekend Recap and More with the Accent of Heavyweights Remembering Hall of Fame Boxing Trainer Kenny Adams Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis Wins Welterweight Showdown in Atlantic City Boxing Notes and Nuggets from Thomas Hauser Avila Perspective Chap 320: Boots Ennis and Stanionis Dzmitry Asanau Flummoxes Francesco Patera on a Ho-Hum Card in Montreal