Rødovre Town Hall

A fine example of the international architecture trends of the 1950s, it was inspired by the General Motors Technical Center to the north of Detroit.

Jacobsen was particularly attracted by the minimalistic work of Mies van der Rohe, Eliel Saarinen, and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.

While the town hall in Rødovre was inspired by Eero Saarinen's General Motors Technical Center, its proportions and details are unmistakably the work of Jacobsen.

The three-storey office wing, 91 m long and 14 m wide, is constructed of pillars, precast crossbeams and floor slabs.

The wing consists of 1 m facade modules, flexible partitions and a central corridor broken only by a two-flight steel and glass staircase.