The Drug Consumption Centre is finalist for the Project Prize in this years' Building Awards, BA18

The Drug Consumption Centre in central Copenhagen has been chosen as a finalist for the 'Project Prize' in this years' Building Awards, BA18. The theme for the award is the UN Sustainability Goals - and the organisers are the construction daily Licitation and Bygherreforeningen (The Association of Developers). The project prize is given for a sustainable project that "in an extraordinary way has excelled and stands as an example for the entire industry... a project where both planning, process and the final result have risen to a higher level to the benefit of all involved parties, users and the surrounding society."

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There are a total of 27 finalist nominated in 9 different categories. The two other finalists in the Project Prize Categoru are Henning Larsen Architects - nominated for Frederiksberg Skole and C.F Møller Architects for Copenhagen International School.

The Drug Consumption Centre
PLH Arkitekter has designed the Drug Consumption Centre in a former slaughter house in the meatpacking district of Copenhagen. Inside the centre drugusers can take their drugs under safe and secure circumstances – under surveillance and assisted by health personel. The architecture has been designed using flow and colour psycology that affects the drug users in a positive direction.

Partner and architect Lars Toksvig is very happy that the Drug Consumption Centre is a finalist for the project prize:

”They say that you can judge a society by the way it treats its most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups. We think that the Drug Consumption Centre is a project that very clearly expresses just how caring and tolerant a society we live in. At PLH we are especially honoured that this particular project has been selected as a finalist for the project prize and we are proud to have designed the Drug Consumption Centre. And by designing the centre also helping some of the most exposed groups in our society.”

Read more about the Drug Consumption Centre.

Read about BA18 og the finalists (in Danish).

Watch this short film from the Drug Consumption Centre.

Partner and architect Lars Toksvig is very happy that the Drug Consumption Centre is a finalist for the project prize:

”They say that you can judge a society by the way it treats its most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups. We think that the Drug Consumption Centre is a project that very clearly expresses just how caring and tolerant a society we live in. At PLH we are especially honoured that this particular project has been selected as a finalist for the project prize and we are proud to have designed the Drug Consumption Centre. And by designing the centre also helping some of the most exposed groups in our society.”