smow blog Design Calendar: February 11th 1902 – Happy Birthday Arne Jacobsen!
...In many ways however that is exactly what the Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen did... One of Denmark's first, and foremost, functionalists, Arne Jacobsen was responsible for some of Denmark's most important post war architectural projects including Rødovre Town Hall, Toms Chocolate Factory in Ballerup and the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, which upon its completion in 1960 was the tallest building in Scandinavia and remains today a towering monument to the utopian visions of the period...