Getting back into Copenhagen from our day trip to Aarhus on Thursday, we went to visit Bagsvaerd, a church in a suburb of the larger city. The interior of the church glows, as almost every surface, from walls and ceiling to carpet, is white. Soft interior light is provided by lines of bare light bulbs, and the curvy ceiling diffusely reflects the sunlight along its coils. On Friday, we visited Grundtvigs Kirke, a gigantic monolith of a modern Gothic cathedral,...

Today, we headed out to the Christiania area to see the new Opera House. Christiania is a notorious hippie haven, and is rather like visiting a third-world country, the group visited it on Sunday, while I was sick. The Opera House was pretty impressive, the roof consisting of a cantilevered structure, approximately 90 meters in length. We didn't get to go inside, as it was closed, but we did take pictures through the glass of the interior, including the 'pumpk...

We had a day of travel today - first we caught the train out to see the Louisiana Museum, in a suburb of Copenhagen. (actually, half of the group caught the first train, and had to wait for 20 minutes for the rest to come on the next train). We got to see probably the most complete collection of photographs by Richard Avedon that may have been assembled from various collections. The photographer who inspired and assisted with the movie 'Funny Face' starring A...

We arrived in Copenhagen late Thursday night, and spent all of Saturday visiting and documenting the sites we had been assigned for our Town Centers project. I was assigned 'Solbjerg Plads' (pronounced 'solb-yerg'), a square by a school and a mall, built in 2005. Sunday, I was down with food poisoning all day (something I manage to get very frequently, to my dismay), and missed out on the day trip to Malmo. We walked across the river and visited the outside of ...