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Fjordenhus -several yards out into the waters of Denmark’s Vejle Fjord, connected to the shore by a footbridge and a subterranean tunnel, is the new office of investment and holding company Kirk Kapital – owned by three brothers directly descended from LEGO founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen.

Designed by the studio of Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, the structure is composed of 970,000 bricks formed into four intersecting cylinders. The ground floor of the structure is accessible by the public.

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A timber-clad lookout platform in an eye-wateringly spectacular setting above the small town of Aurland in Sogn og Fjordan, Norway.

The Aurland Lookout was designed by architects Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen whose brief was to create ‘a bridge into the open room of this large fjord’ with ‘minimal encroachment on the environment’.

Done and done.

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