DAMPA_75_years_of_quiet_design_ENG - Flipbook - Page 40
Early in 1952, Det Fyenske Trælastkompagni published an
illustrated brochure entitled ‘Dæmpa Serviceblad 1’, which
contained illustrations of the earliest significant projects in
which Dæmpa panels were installed. An initial project of
which the company was understandably proud was a new
11-storey, concrete-framed commercial block in central
Copenhagen, close to the Central Railway Station and Tivoli, which the architects Mogens Jensen and Alex Poulsen
had designed. Its name, ‘Panoptikon’ perpetuated that of
the building it superseded, which had burned down early in
1950 and which had originally contained entertaining tableaux with wax figures and, later, Copenhagen’s first ever
cinema.
At the time of its completion, the new Panoptikon was arguably the first overtly modernist block in Copenhagen and it
was also briefly the city’s tallest building (until the first of the
Bellahøj high-rise flats eclipsed it just two years later).
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