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aristocratic Neergaard family in 1819.
When the last member of the family died
childless, the property was bequeathed
to a charity, called Refugiet Fuglsang. The
area’s rich cultural heritage stems from
the Neergaard family’s close links to the
Danish musical elite – including the two
giants of Danish music, composers Carl
Nielsen and Edvard Grieg. The manor
house is currently the permanent home of
the Danish Chamber Players (Storstrøms
Kammerensemble), a nationally-recog-
nised chamber orchestra.
After agreeing a deal for an art gallery to
The framed view has become the icon of Fuglsang
be built within the grounds of the Fuglsang
estate, the museum trust announced a tation with an advisory architect,” he says. lery featuring nothing but three panoramic
design competition for the building. “Our scheme was chosen unanimously, and windows and chairs. The framing of the
The brief imposed a number of archi- having selected us the board of trustees and picturesque view and presenting it as an
tectural constraints, due to the museum the director respected our professionalism artwork has become the icon of Fuglsang.
being built on a plot surrounded by the and let us get on with the project. The UK Fretton’s submission to the brief, how-
historic manor house and its agricultural has a great deal to learn from this.” ever, wasn’t entirely rebellious. “Out of the
and administration buildings. The trust fi ve bids, Tony’s was the one that actually
received fi ve submissions from architects THE BRIEF concentrated on solving the issues regard-
and the one that stood out was, ironically, The brief dictated that the building should ing the day-to-day operations of a museum
the one that disregarded some of the pro- integrate with the surrounding architec- that we laid out in the competition brief,”
visos laid out in the stringent brief. “That’s ture and landscape. It also included a ‘very Petersen says.
what you need architects for,” Petersen strong suggestion’ that access from the “We asked very precise questions. Tony
says with a hearty laugh. “Tony clearly museum to the courtyard of the manor seemed to be the one that paid most atten-
made us see something that we weren’t house should be closed. This would have tion to answering these questions and
able to see ourselves.” obstructed the view from the museum to that’s exactly what we wanted – answers,
Fretton adds that the selection proc- the coast and Fretton dismissed this as not fancy new ideas. He did this partly by
ess was well organised, which helped to a bad idea, suggesting that rather than neglecting the original brief and partly by
produce a coherent design. “The brief shutting the view out, it should become giving more fl exibility to how the different
was very well constructed, having been a defi ning feature of the museum. As a rooms and the whole body of the museum’s
prepared by a year-long process of consul- result, the museum’s centrepiece is a gal- architecture was laid out.
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