Its De Rotterdam project promised a dynamic integration of housing, offices and hotel, but ended up as three siloed towers on a plinth. So has OMA finally succeeded in bringing a shock dose of multi-levelled metropolitan dynamism to the urbane context of Copenhagen? Its primary interest in the building comes in the form of the “Bloxhub”, a high-end serviced office space that styles itself as a “matchmaking agency for built environment innovators”. “In a mixed-use building everyone wants to retreat to their own areas, but it’s important to stimulate new relationships and connections between them. “The DAC would steal space from the housing and offices, where they could demonstrate the future of housing or the workplace.

Source: The Guardian May 01, 2018 09:56 UTC