How do you hide a building? It sounds like a rhetorical question, but it was the very real dilemma confronting the architects charged with building a new Maritime Museum of Denmark a few years ago. The museum, you see, is located a few hundred yards away from Kronborg Castle—which serves as the setting for Shakespeare’s Hamlet and is protected by law.
To avoid disturbing the historical site with an 82,000 square foot museum, Bjarke Ingels Group devised another plan: Build it underground. Helsingor, the municipality where Kronborg and the museum are located, is situated between the Baltic and North Sea—so it’s long been a center for shipping and more importantly, ship-building.
via Gizmodo
