EY Huset (formerly KPMG-huset) is a building on ''Værkmestergade 25'' in the

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neighborhood in

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. It is one of the tallest buildings in Aarhus and Denmark at large. At 68.5 meters it is the fourth tallest building in Aarhus after

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, Aarhus City Tower and Ceres Panorama. As of 2017 it is the 16th tallest building in Denmark. EY Huset is a mixed use building with condominiums on the top two floors, offices on the following 10, stores on the next 2 while the bottom 3 are various miscellaneous. The high-rise was built as a part of the commercial department store project Bruun's Galleri. The building is 17 floors tall and is situated directly behind

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surrounded by buildings that are generally lower. The building was formerly known as KPMG Huset after

KPMG KPMG is a multinational professional services network, based in London, United Kingdom. As one of the Big Four accounting firms, along with Ernst & Young (EY), Deloitte, and PwC. KPMG is a network of firms in 145 countries with 275,288 emplo ...

who rented a number of floors in the building. After

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took over KPMG activities in Denmark the building was renamed to EY Huset.

Architecture

EY Huset was designed in collaboration between the architect firms

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Schmidt Hammer Lassen (SHL) is an international architectural firm founded by a group of Danish architects in 1986 in Aarhus, Denmark. It has offices in Copenhagen and Aarhus in Denmark, and Shanghai, China. In 2018, SHL became part of global arc ...

and

3XN 3XN is a Danish architectural practice headquartered in Copenhagen and with offices in Stockholm, London, New York and Sydney. History The company was founded in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1986 as Nielsen, Nielsen & Nielsen (later 3 X Nielsen) by Ki ...

. NCC Construction Danmark A/S functioned as the project leader during construction. The glass in the facade was mounted and tested over two rounds before a choice was made. The glass chosen has been lightly corroded by acid to stop reflections in the nearby areas and the glass has partial silk imprints to limit light from getting into the building heating it.

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Architecture

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