Friis & Moltke
Hotel Foroyar
Practice information
Partners	Thomas H. Svendsen Line Frier Thomas Ruus Christensen Mikkel Bahr Mikkel Wienberg[1]
Founders	Knud Friis Elmar Moltke Nielsen
Founded	1955
Location	Aarhus
Significant works and honors
Buildings	Hotel Foroyar Gigantium Musikkens Hus
Website
https://friis-moltke.dk/

Friis & Moltke is a Danish architectural practice headquartered inAarhus with branch offices inCopenhagen andAalborg. Friis & Moltke has about 50 employees and is mainly active in the Scandinavian market.^[2] The firm was founded in 1955 by the architectsKnud Friis andElmar Moltke Nielsen who met while working atC. F. Møller Architects in Aarhus. Today the company has 6 partners and 1 associated partner responsible for the department of furniture design.^[3]

Friis & Moltke has designed many celebrated buildings across Denmark. The projects covers a multitude of functionalities including residential, educational, stadiums, churches, shopping malls, prisons, city halls, concert halls and hotels. A selection of the most notable comprise the following:

Friis & Moltke has been notable architects of the so-calledbrutalist architecture, a specific branch of the much broadermodernist movement. Brutalism had its heyday in the 1960s and 70s, and noteworthy examples from Friis & Moltke includes Hotel Lakolk, Entreprenørskolen, Scanticon Skåde and Odder City Hall in particular.^[5] Outside Denmark, the Siemens Global Leadership Center, and associated guest hotel, from 1974 is a prize-winning example of Friis & Moltke's architecture of the brutalist era.

Friis & Moltke is also active outside Denmark with notable and prize-winning architecture:

• Embassy of Denmark in Ankara (1970),Ankara, Turkey^[6]
• Siemens Global Leadership Center (1974),Feldafing, Germany
• Alter Hafen (2011),Wismar, Germany
• Dublin Waste to Energy (2017), Poolbeg Peninsula, Ireland
• Strømme Senter (in 2019),Kristiansand, Norway
• Ny Anstalt i Nuuk (in 2019),Nuuk, Greenland

60's and 70's

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  Højhusene Marselis Boulevard, residential (1967)
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  Grøfthøjhuset, residential (1970)
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  Vestervang, residential (1970)
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  Skjoldhøjkollegiet, a large student housing project (1973)
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  Skjoldhøjkollegiet (detail)
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  Skjoldhøjkollegiet (detail)
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  Langkær Gymnasium, a high school (1975)

80's and 90's

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  Skjoldhøj Church (1984)
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  Skelager Church (1990)
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  Scandinavian Center Aarhus (1995)
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2000's

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  Aalborg Stadion (2002)
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  Prismet, offices (2002)
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  Grønnevang Church (2008)
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  Musikkens Hus (2013)

Publications

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