GAME ON: Helle Mardahl Casts Candy Crush in Glass
In Copenhagen, the Danish designer’s GAME ON installation brought mouth-blown glass to life through colour, symmetry, and the irresistible logic of play.
Bread & Butter 2026: designers explore bathing routines through intimate pairings
Teapots, pitchers, soap trays, brush holders – In Copenhagen, the Bread & Butter exhibition explores bathing rituals through design pairings across cultures.
Ukurant Makes Space: eight highlights by emerging designers in Copenhagen
From a lamp using gravity to shine and a lounger tracing the arc of a spinal column. This year’s Ukurant exhibition blurs craft and function.
Fritz Hansen’ SOUND CLUB makes some noise in Copenhagen
A listening bar, DJ sets in the courtyard, and a podcast lounge — music and design speak the same spatial language at Fritz Hansen’s Sound Club. The 3daysofdesign installation explores what great interiors are truly for: composed around people, not objects.
Aalto 90 Pavilion: Iittala Scales Up a Design Icon in Copenhagen
Built in low-carbon aluminium, the Aalto 90 Pavilion reimagines a design classic as a monumental, walk-in public installation.
Form Follows Seam: Designers Show What A Sewing Machine Can Do In Copenhagen
Stitched lamps, enfolded chairs, a leather sling suspended in steel — Erwan Bouroullec, Foster + Partners, and more work with the sewing machine for the VÆRKTØJ exhibition at 3DaysOfDesign.
Poetic Daylight Pavilion: A Quiet Dialogue Between Space and Light
The Poetic Daylight Pavilion turns the passing hours into an architectural experience, celebrating how the sun’s quiet choreography defines atmosphere and well-being.
Inside Out, Downside Up: slowing down through the architecture of reuse
The Inside Out, Downside Up pavilion by Slaatto Morsbøl is built mainly from reused materials, offering a sensorial architectural experience with a powerful message: Slow Down!
Barn Again: Slowing Down with Timber in Copenhagen
Tom Svilans and THISS Studio repurpose an old barn into a cocooning meditative space. Their Barn Again pavilion at the inaugural Copenhagen Architecture Biennial highlights the creative potential of reclaimed materials.
Copenhagen Architecture Biennial: A Call to Slow Down
In an era dominated by speed and constant production, the inaugural Copenhagen Architecture Biennial doesn’t just showcase architecture; it slows it down, daring to suggest another path: one where architecture helps us live not faster, but better.
Iittala Brings Nordic Rituals to Copenhagen with Its AW25 Debut
With the new A/W25 collection, Iittala invites us to slow down, tune in to seasonal shifts, and find beauty in everyday rituals.
Muuto’s Dream View Bench by Lise Vester is designed for sky-gazing
Recline, look up and dream a little. Lise Vester’s Dream View Bench “reminds us to reconnect with those fleeting moments of beauty.”
3 Days of Design 2025: eighteen must-visit exhibitions in Copenhagen
Check out our design guide for 3 Days of Design 2025 in the Danish capital. From cutting-edge sustainable materials to a floating textile installation, unexpected design pairings, and more.
Noma Projects blends food and design in Copenhagen
During 3 Days of Design, Noma Projects opens the doors of the pioneering food lab of René Redzepi’s famed restaurant in the Danish Capital.
The Teenage Dreams exhibition explores teens’ design spaces
Festival tents, biogenetic materials, and selfie backdrops. The ‘Teenage Dreams’ design exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center shows what teenage bedrooms will look like.
3 Days of Design 2024: eight furniture collections debuting in Copenaghen
From sculptural wooden patchworks to crafted plastic furniture and lightweight coffins. We selected 8 eclectic furniture collections debuting in Copenaghen.
3 Days of Design 2024: Ten must-visit exhibitions in Copenhagen
Teenagers’ bedrooms, knitted Icelandic pizzas, and trainers in a pastel-coloured Nordic palette. Copenhagen’s 3 Days of Design 2024 celebrates the future of Danish creativity and beyond.
Best of 3 Days of Design 2023: Copenhagen shines with design
3 Days of Design 2023 celebrates the Danish festival’s 10th anniversary focusing on the design community teaming up to create a better living environment for future generations.
Best of 3 Days of Design 2023: Copenhagen shines with design
3 Days of Design 2023 celebrates the Danish festival’s 10th anniversary focusing on the design community teaming up to create a better living environment for future generations.
10 museums and cultural architecture projects to look forward to in 2023
A cavernous museum in New York City, a terraced campus in the heart of Jerusalem, and a culture park with giant pebble-shaped buildings in Shenzen are among the best museums and cultural venues opening in 2023.
3 Days of Design 2022: 7 furniture designs debuting in Copenhagen
3 Days of Design 2022: Denmark’s furniture and lighting festival returns with a positive attitude, theme and incitement: ‘Remember to play!’ We have selected seven designs on display.
3 Days Of Design 2021 focuses on well-being through design
Textile ‘rural graffiti’ inspired by flocks of sheep, the beauty of imperfect objects with a past and psychologically supportive mirrors. 3 Days Of Design 2021 took over Copenhagen, exploring how the objects we live with can help us to feel better.
Form Follows Environment: Nordic architects vs Climate Change
Nordic architects are showing the way to build a sustainable future. BIG completes the cleanest waste-to-energy plant topped with a ski slope, Snøhetta has inaugurated the the world’s northernmost energy-positive building. Dorte Mandrup’s Icefjord Centre breaks ground to offer breathtaking views of a melting UNESCO World Heritage Site, new sustainable cultural venues thrive in Helsinki and a sinking arctic Swedish city is being relocated…
Smørrebrod or tapas? Normann Copenhagen’s new terracotta and ceramic tableware blends Denmark and Spain’s conviviality
Normann Copenhagen’s new terracotta and ceramic tableware designs combine Nordic and Mediterranean vibes, pastel colours and earthy textures.
7 trends and highlights from ‘3 Days of Design 2019’ in Copenhagen
At 3 Days of Design 2019 Nordic workplaces become flexible, design crafts are ‘not-necessarily’ functional, chairs protect the ocean while art injects irreverence into design.
Irreplaceable Landscapes: Dorte Mandrup showcases sustainable architectures in endangered UNESCO sites
How does the landscapes shape the architecture? The Irreplaceable Landscapes exhibition at Copenhagen DAC Museum narrates four of Dorte Mandrup’s most audacious projects dealing with natural environments threatened by Climate Change.
Snøhetta designs casual interiors for noma group’s BARR restaurant in Copenhagen
Inspired by Nordic gourmet traditions, Snøhetta, Thorstein Schmidt and René Redzepi conceived the wooden interior design of BARR restaurant in the former home of world’s renown noma restaurant.
Norman Copenhagen new flagship store features a gallery filled with pure pink pandemonium
A steel corridor, mirrored walls and a pure pink room shine at Normann Copenhagen showroom in the Danish capital.
Urban Rigger: BIG completes first student-friendly floating housing in Copenhagen
BIG’s Urban Rigger is the first floating housing solution for students in search of a cozy and an affordable place not far from Copenhagen’s city centre.
Tokyo-lization: Daigo Ishii+Future-scape merges Japanese urban features with world cities’ architecture
Daigo Ishii+Future-scape architects present the Tokyo-lization project that mesh Tokyo urban features with the ones of Venice, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen and La Paz to show how our idea of locality have become more fragile.