Id Number: 0029
Record Date: August 21, 2001
Country: Danmark
Location: Copenhagen
Vesterbrogade 34
Denomination: Løvenborg
(The lion's castle)
Typology: blocks of flats,
hotel, shop,
originally also cinema
Period: 1906 -1907
Style: Art Nouveau
Architect: Anton Rosen
Author of form: Søren
Vadstrup
Raadvad Centeret
Raadvad 40, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
vadstrup@raadvad.dk |
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| Materials |
Techniques: |
| air lime |
| hydraulic lime
[X] |
| Portland cement
[X] |
| gypsum plaster |
| gipsum lime plaster |
| other [X]
(1) |
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| molding in situ
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| prefabricated molding |
| hand modeling
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| casting in situ
[X] |
| prefabricated
casting [X] |
| other [X]
(2) |
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| Surface treatment: |
Surface
finishing: |
| bush hammered |
| combed |
| rubble |
| smoothed [X] |
| other [X]
(3) |
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| lime wash |
| linseed oil paint |
| tempera paint |
| plastic paint |
| silicate paint |
| other
[X] (4) |
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| Condition |
Notes: |
| crazing |
| delamination |
| detachment |
| powdering |
| other [X]
(5) |
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(1) - Decorated
copper plates, gilded cupper, wrought iron, gilded wrought iron, bronze
lamps, leaded lights.
(2) - Recastings in 1997
(3) - Sandstone imitation.
(4) - Transparent lime water coloured
(yellow ochre),
gilded cement ornaments.
(5) - Facade restoration 1997 -
98 by the Raadvad-Centre.
Missing or deteriorated elements
recast or repair.
General notes: Listed buiding. The
earliest example of a curtain wall construction in Denmark. |
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