8 House, known in Danish as 8-tallet, is a mixed-use development in the Orestad district of Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by the architect Bjarke Ingels of Bjarke Ingels Group and completed in 2010, four years after it was commissioned in 2006 as the third of Ingels' housing projects in the Orestad area. The building takes the shape of a figure eight, or a bowtie folded around two courtyards, and combines about 61,000 square meters of housing across three different residential types with roughly 10,000 square meters of retail and office space along its ground levels. A continuous ramped path for pedestrians and cyclists winds around the building's perimeter and climbs as high as its tenth floor, letting residents cycle from street level directly to their front doors, and the project was, at its scale, Denmark's largest private development to date.
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1. 8 House (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationEntity description and the lead of the Wikipedia articleQuote, Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
8 House, known in Danish as 8-tallet, is a mixed-use development in the Orestad district of Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by the architect Bjarke Ingels of Bjarke Ingels Group and completed in 2010, four years after it was commissioned in 2006 as the third of Ingels' housing projects in the Orestad area. The building takes the shape of a figure eight, or a bowtie folded around two courtyards, and combines about 61,000 square meters of housing across three different residential types with roughly 10,000 square meters of retail and office space along its ground levels. A continuous ramped path for pedestrians and cyclists winds around the building's perimeter and climbs as high as its tenth floor, letting residents cycle from street level directly to their front doors, and the project was, at its scale, Denmark's largest private development to date.
2. Wikidata: 8 House
- Wikidata Q3360208, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q3360208, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
View the Source3. Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_House, opening sentence
is a large mixed-use development built in the shape of a figure 8 on the southern perimeter of the new suburb of Ørestad in Copenhagen, Denmark.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_House, opening sentence, backing the entity description
is a large mixed-use development built in the shape of a figure 8 on the southern perimeter of the new suburb of Ørestad in Copenhagen, Denmark.
View the Source 8 House (Wikidata)
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Wikidata item Q3360208, property P571: 2010
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