Dissing+Weitling

Dissing+Weitling
The Great Belt Bridge
Practice information
Key architects	Steen S. Trojaborg Poul Ove Jensen Daniel V. Hayden Stig Mikkelsen
Partners	Steen S. Trojaborg Daniel V. Hayden Stig Mikkelsen
Principal office	Copenhagen
Founded	1971 (1971)
Work
Buildings	Danish National Bank DR Television Headquarter National Bank of Iraq

Dissing+Weitling is an architecture and design practice based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The founders and namesakes Hans Dissing and Otto Weitling founded the firm upon the death of Arne Jacobsen as a continuation of his office where both had been key employees.^[1]

Dissing+Weitling is particularly notable for the design of a great number of bridges around the world, ranging from small pedestrian and bicycle bridges to some of the longest bridges in the world, including the Danish Great Belt and Femern Bridges.

History

Hans Dissing and Otto Weitling were key employees at Arne Jacobsen's office and they founded Dissing+Weitling in 1971 upon his death to continue and complete his unfinished projects. These included a city hall in Mainz, Germany, which has been extended also by Dissing+Weitling in 2008, a holiday resort on the north German island of Fehmarn, the Danish Embasssy in London. In 1972, the firm won competitions for the IBM Centre in Hamburg and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, establishing the firm's name in its own right. Hans Dissing died in 1998 and Otto Weitling retired from the firm in 2002. Key architects and partners of the past were: Erik P. Handschuh, Poul Ove Jensen, Pouli H. Møller, Bodil A. Schaltz, Reinhard Tölke, Teit Weylandt. Current partners are: Steen S. Trojaborg, Daniel V. Hayden, Stig Mikkelsen.

Selected Projects

Buildings

Mainz City Hall (1971)

Central Bank of Iraq (1985)

• Mainz City Hall (Rathaus), Mainz, Germany (completed 1971)
• Danish National Bank, Copenhagen, DK (completed 1971)
• IBM Centre, Hamburg, Germany (completed 1974)
• Danish Embassy, London, UK (completed 1977)
• Central Bank of Iraq, Bagdad, Iraq (completed 1985)^[2]
• K20 Art Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany (completed 1986)
• Sonofon Headquarters, Copenhagen, Denmark (completed 1998)
• Parliament of Denmark renovation and interior design, Copenhagen, DK (completed 2004)
• Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek renovation, Copenhagen, Denmark
• DR Television Headquarter, Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark (completed 2006)
• Faculty Library, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (completed 2008)
• Crowne Plaza, Copenhagen, Ørestad, Denmark (completed 2009)
• Rambøll Headquarters, Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark (completion 2010)

Under construction

• Office Complex, Vilnius, Lithuania (competition win 2008)^[3]

Bridges

Tradeston Bridge (2009)

• Great Belt Bridge, Funen/Zealand, DK (completed 1998)
• Mittellandkanal Bridges, Hannover, Germany (completed 1999)
• Øresund Bridge, Denmark/Sweden (Competition winner. The project completed in 2000 is not their winning design scheme)
• Nelson Mandela Bridge, Johannesburg, South Africa (completed 2003)
• University Bridge, Malmö, Sweden (completed 2004)
• Bryggebroen, Copenhagen, DK (completed 2006)
• Munksjön Bridge, Jönköping, Sweden (completed 2007)
• Stonecutter's Bridge Hong Kong, China (Competition winner. Detail design by Arup. Completed in 2009)
• Åbroen, Copenhagen, DK (completed 2008)
• Tradeston Bridge, Glasgow, Scotland (completed 2009)
• ADNEC Bridge, Abu Dabi, UAE
• Sitra Interchange, Sitra, Bahrain
• Pirbrua over Nidelva, Trondheim, Norway

Under construction

• Old Nahe bridge, Bad Kreuznach, Germany (completion expected by 2012)
• Constantine Bridge, Wilaya de Constantine, Algeria (completion expected by 2012)
• Botniabanen Bridges, Nyeland-Umeå, Sweden
• Strait of Messina Bridge, Italy
• Qatar-Lusail bridge, Lusail, Qatar (competition win 2007)^[4]
• New Gerald Desmond Bridge, California, USA (completion 2016)
• New Forth Crossing, Scotland (competition win 2008, completion 2011-2016)^[1]

Proposed

• Femern Bridge, link between Denmark and Germany (competition win 2009, completion 2018)

Awards

• 1999 Nykredit Architecture Prize

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Dissing + Weitling Architects, Denmark". e-architect. http://www.e-architect.co.uk/architects/dissing_weitling.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-20. 
2. ^ "Central Bank of Iraq". Archnet. http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=838. Retrieved 2010-06-13. 
3. ^ "DISSING+WEITLING WINS IN VILNIUS". Danish Architecture Centre. http://english.dac.dk/visNyhed.uk.asp?artikelID=5068&soegningID=63748&ord=dissing. Retrieved 2009-07-20. 
4. ^ "Cowi og Dissing+Weitling i norsk samarbejde". Building Supply. http://www.building-supply.dk/portal-b2b/article/view.html?id=12859. Retrieved 2009-07-20.