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Swiss-Danish designer Carsten Jorgensen has designed this cozy and loving interior for smith&hsu – a contemporary tea brand based in Taipei, Taiwan. Its peerless loose teas, collected from around the world, are a testament to its deep rage for both Chinese and British tea culture. Beside its carefully assorted tea collection, smith&hsu offers a huge range of tea tools and homemade gourmet food. Combining wooden furnishings with a concrete floor may seem odd, but Carsten Jorgensen has managed to merge these two seemingly disparate elements into an exotic atmosphere for smith&hsu’s patrons.

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Built in 1999, the “Black Diamond” is a modern extension to the Royal Danish Library which is the largest library in the Nordic countries. The old library dates from 1906 and was designed by architect Hans J. Holm. Located at the waterfront of Copenhagen, this new library building is designed by the Danish architects Schmidt, Hammer and Lassen. Contains a library, concert hall, bookshop, café, exhibition space and restaurant, it is the first in a series of large-scale cultural buildings along Copenhagen’s waterfront.

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No, this isn’t a screenshot from the latest SimCity computer game or from the Facebook Farmville. These circular structures form a little community located in the suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. The city has a multitude of districts, each representing its time and with its own distinctive character, making up a dense urban fabric. The photos are part of the project “Earth From Above” which is a result of five-year airborne odyssey across six continents of the local photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

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This 1850s inn-style hotel is situated in Vollerup, fitting 6 minutes’ cover from bifocal Sonderborg. It offers a oversize garden, unloosen parking and regional cooking. Visit to Danfoss Assemblage Science-and undergo common and Sonderborg on the island of Als , settled 30 km from the Danish-German touch. Als is an island with bimestrial coastlines and some forests and is paragon for horizontal and angling, either from the shore or from boats.

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Situated in the middle of North Jutland, Aalborg is the fourth largest town in Denmark. Founded by the Vikings, this is a lively city offers lots of fun and exciting experiences for the young as well as the not so young. If you take a walk down the pedestrian area you will find that there is a great atmosphere and a lot of fine old buildings. This is a city full of life and charm – both day and night. There is a variety of tourist attractions and sights plus many exciting activities and events.

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New York artist Tom Fruin creates an outdoor sculpture called Kolonihavehus in the plaza of the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen. The quirky house has an appearance of a friendly and colorful stained-glass house, yet it also evokes thoughts of churches and Charles Rennie Macintosh. 

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This museum is one of the most exciting cultural projecs in the Nordic countries. It serves as a Nordic center for contemporary art, for research and training, with the emphasis laid on techiniques of watercolour art. At the museum you can explore the work of famous international watercolourists or study classical watercolour paintings of the past. You can choose to take a specialised course led by professional artists, try how it feels to pait alongside your own children or grandchildren in the children’s studio, or prepare your forthcoming exhibition in one of the guests studios.

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“K” is for Kitani and Ki, this means wood and also spirit in Japanese.

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William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy “Hamlet” takes place in the castle of Kronborg. Known by many as “Elsinore”, the castle is located in Elsinore (or Helsingor), North of Copenhagen. Immortalised by Shakespeare, it is a Renaissance castle built by Danish King Frederik II in 1574-84.

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Odense is a wonderful city with a vibrant student life and many parks and green areas which bring a pleasant atmosphere to the everybody. A city that establishes strong partnerships between everyone who wants to contribute to the quality of life and growth – in the areas where new and offbeat ideas emerge and converge. And the most sustainable city in Denmark.

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