Radiohuset (literally "The Radio House") is the former headquarters of national
Danish broadcaster
DR, located on
Rosenørns Allé in
Frederiksberg,
Copenhagen. The building complex was inaugurated in 1945 to a
Functionalist design by
Vilhelm Lauritzen and later expanded in 1958 and 1972. Vacated by DR when
DR Byen was inaugurated in 2006, the buildings now house the
Royal Danish Academy of Music
The Royal Danish Academy of Music, or Royal Danish Conservatory of Music ( da, Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium), in Copenhagen is the oldest professional institution of musical education in Denmark as well as the largest, with approxima ...
as well as the Museum of Music once it reopens. The complex also contains a concert hall. The building was listed in 1994.
History

During the first years of its existence, Danish Broadcasting Corporation (Danish Statsradiofonien) was based at various locations in Copenhagen, including in
Stærekassen
Stærekassen ( lit. "The Starling Nest Box"), also known as Ny Scene (English: New Stage) is a theatre building annexed to the Royal Danish Theatre on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen, Denmark. It opened in 1931 to serve a dual purpose as an additional ...
on
Kongens Nytorv and in Axelborg on
Vesterbrogade. As the organization grew, the need for a larger, purpose-built home became evident. Vilhelm Lauritzen was one of four members of a building committee which in the summer of 1934 went on a study trip to London, Paris, Brussels, Geneva, Zürich, Prague, Leipzig, Berlin and Konigsberg, visiting similar broadcasting houses, and later that year Lauritzen published a preliminary design proposal broadcasting house in ''
Arkitekten''.
The building went under construction in 1938 and was mostly ready in January 1941, although the concert hall was not completed until 1945.
The complex was expanded with a new wing for DR's Television operations. In 1964, as they required still more space, they moved to the new
TV-Byen complex in
Gladsaxe, leaving only the radio broadcasting activities and corporate management in Radiohuset which saw another expansion in 1972. Television news, under the ''TV Avisen'' banner, remained at Radiohuset before it moved to TV-Byen in October 1983.
In 2001, Radiohuset was sold to the
Royal Danish Academy of Music
The Royal Danish Academy of Music, or Royal Danish Conservatory of Music ( da, Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium), in Copenhagen is the oldest professional institution of musical education in Denmark as well as the largest, with approxima ...
which let it to DR until DR-byen was completed in 2006.
Architecture
The original complex consisted of four elements: A main wing, also known as Høj Fløj (literally "High Wing") with the main entrance on Rosenørns Allé, a lower wing on its right-hand side (Lav Fløj, literally "Low Wing"), Studieblokken (literally "The Studio Block") to its rear and the trapezoid concert hall on Julius Thonsens Gade. The extension in 1958 added a new wing (Ny Fløj, literally "New Wing") to the rear of the main wing, on Worsaaesvej, and the 1972 expansion integrated a former residential building on Worsaaesvej in the complex and added an extra floor on.
[
Lauritzen collaborated with Finn Juhl on furniture, lamps and other fittings and Gudmund Nyeland Brandt designed the roof garden on the Studio Block.
]
Royal Danish Music Academy
An architectural competition for the adaption of the building for use by the Royal Danish Academy of Music
The Royal Danish Academy of Music, or Royal Danish Conservatory of Music ( da, Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium), in Copenhagen is the oldest professional institution of musical education in Denmark as well as the largest, with approxima ...
was won by Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects, The Royal Music Academy inaugurated their new home on 1 September 2008.[
]
Concert hall
The concert hall seats 1200 people. It contains a pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ''ranks ...
with 84 voices and 114 ranks, built by Marcussen Marcussen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Hanna Elise Marcussen (born 1977), Norwegian politician
* Ida Marcussen (born 1987), Norwegian heptathlete
* Jan Marcussen, American Seventh-day Adventist and former minister
* Je ...
in 1946.
References
External links
Images
from arkitekturbilleder.dk
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Listed buildings and structures in Frederiksberg Municipality
Modernist architecture in Copenhagen
Buildings and structures completed in 1945
Functionalist architecture
DR (broadcaster)