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Thanks to Lise Roland Johansen from 3XN Architects for letting us know about their new amazing project called “The Blue Planet”.

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Denmark’s new aquarium is inspired by the whirl streams of the sea, shoals of fish, and swirling starlings turning the sky black. Indeed, from the round centre hall of the building the different parts are ‘whirled’ in the slightly curved sequence of rooms. Approaching the ground, one will experience the building as floating in a circular reflection pool, and a walk through its interior is a travel through several organic worlds.

The starting point was the magnificent experience of actually watching fish in their element. We wanted to create that adventurous feeling, and we took inspiration in the natural phenomenon of the whirlpool or maelstrom drawing you into the deep. As a sculpture by the coast it unites the natural elements of water, air and earth.

- Kim Herforth Nielsen, Principal Architect, 3XN.

The Round Room is a center of navigation in the aquarium,and this is where visitors choose which river, lake or ocean to explore. Each exhibition has its own face towards the Round Room, each with its own entrance, starting with a buffer zone – a platform where sound and images are used The Blue Planet Copenhagen, DK to introduce the atmosphere communicated in the ensuing exhibition room.

Nature and culture can be mixed, controlled by topics and ideas, on the basis of the stories to be told or in interaction with the audience. The building is flexible enough to accommodate it all, and the dominant whirl, with its endless scope for variation, but also repetition and rhythm, holds it all together. The curves which define the absolutely unique and sculptural look of the building must be perceived as part of the backdrops to the sceneries of the exhibitions.