Tyge Hvass
Tyge Hvass (5 July 1885 – 4 September 1963) was a Danish functionalist architect.
He was the son of Franciscus Tertius Hvass and Christine Cathrine Henriette Kopp.
He attended the Aalborg Technical School in 1905 and was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen in 1906.
[2] He conducted design work at the World Exhibition in San Francisco (1915) and for Kay Fisker at the construction of the Danish building at the International Exhibition in Paris (1925).
He was the architect for the Danish exhibition in Cologne (1927) and for the Danish exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City (1928) and for the Danish building at the International Expositions in Barcelona (1929), Antwerp (1930), Brussels (1935), Paris (1937) and New York City (1939).
Built in 1957 with design by architect Tyge Hvass and expanded with an extension in 2005 designed by architect Theo Bjerg