Superkilen
A public space promoting integration across lines of ethnicity, religion and culture.
Location: Copenhagen, DenmarkArchitects: BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, Topotek 1 and Superflex
Client: Copenhagen Municipality
Jury’s comments
Living with people who differ — racially, ethnically, religiously or economically — is the most urgent challenge facing contemporary civil society. At a time of growing global uncertainty and insecurity, it has become fashionable to talk in terms of ‘worlds’ – the third world, the Islamic world, the Arab world – as though these occupy a parallel universe, disconnected from the rest and subject to different rules. Superkilen, a new urban park in one of Copenhagen’s most diverse and socially challenged neighbourhoods, emphatically rejects this view with a powerful mixture of humour, history and hubris.