The Rock Museum in Roskilde by MVRDV

Roskilde is located about twenty kilometers west of Copenhagen and is home to one of the six largest music festivals in Europe, held annually. Hence, the idea was born to reconstruct the area of the former concrete plant between the city center and the festival grounds and transform it into a multifunctional festival structure named 'ROCKmagnet'. In an international competition for the redevelopment of the former industrial site covering over 10,000 m², the consortium of Dutch architects MVRDV and Danish studio Cobe Architects ultimately won, after bringing in landscape architects LIW and London engineers from Arup for the design. The winning project initially appears to be a vibrant, colorful carnival attraction, among which some parts of the industrial buildings are preserved and currently used by artists, musicians, and skaters. MVRDV and Cobe added new luminous structures to the area, including a rock museum, a music school, an administration building, and exhibition spaces. The trio of new objects, positioned among the original warehouse halls, includes a floating circular pavilion, a black cube with a series of circular openings, and a spiky golden console, before which an imaginary ceremonial red carpet is laid out.