The Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark, was the last building to be designed by Jørn Utzon, the architect behind the Sydney Opera House. In collaboration with his son Kim, who provided the final construction drawings, he planned the centre not as a museum but as a place where students of architecture could meet and discuss their ideas for the future. Located on the Limfjord waterfront in the city where Utzon spent his childhood, the building was completed in 2008, the year Utzon died.
The Utzon Center, Aalborg
The Utzon Center on Aalborg's waterfront
The eastern side of the building.
Aalborg or Ålborg is Denmark's fourth largest urban settlement with a population of 119,862 in the town proper and an urban population of 143,598. As of 1 July 2022, the Municipality of Aalborg had a population of 221,082, making it the third most populous in the country after the municipalities of Copenhagen (capital) and Aarhus. Eurostat and OECD have used a definition for the metropolitan area of Aalborg, which includes all municipalities in the province of North Jutland, with a total population of 594,323 as of 1 July 2022.
Panoramic view of Aalborg (September 2018)
Lindholm Høje
Execution of the rebel Skipper Clement in Viborg, 1536 (engraving by an unknown author, 1574)
Aalborg in the 1830s: painting of the old watermill by wine merchant Bock showing the mill pond fed from the Østerå