Arne Jacobsen -
Consulting Engineers were Ove Arup &
Partners
Date
Built
1977
Location
Sloane Street
across from Cadogan Place
Description
The main building
of the Danish Embassy occupies a site on
Sloane Street across from Cadogan
Gardens. It stands six storeys high and
contains the Chancery and the Ambassador's
Residence on the fifth and sixth floors.
Open House London says that, "... The
design of the building respects the
general arrangement and scale of the
adjacent buildings. Arne Jacobsen had
originally designed the building with
exterior panels made in bronze but due to
savings, the facade was painted instead.
The original colour was, however, chosen
to blend in with the adjacent buildings in
Sloane Street with its many nuances of
sandstone but later it was changed into
the present army-grey. The original colour
can still be seen on the inside of the
windows and in the staircase hall."
"Recalling the fact that the site was
previously occupied by a terrace of houses
the building has been divided vertically
by the structural cross walls into five
equal bays which retain the pattern of the
old party walls and thereby maintain the
width of the buildings elsewhere in
Cadogan Place."
There is a courtyard between the main building
and a group of staff apartments arranged along
Pavilion Road.
A former
exhibition/lecture hall has been converted
into the Embassy of Iceland which has a
separate entrance off Hans Street.
A mural, designed by
the Danish painter and sculptor Ole
Schwalbe has been integrated in the wall
along Sloane Street.
