Decoration Details

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Decoration

Present name

Gladsaxe Continuation School

Town, country

Søborg, Denmark

Description

exterior | cement and ceramic decoration | main building facing schoolyard and wall facing street

Completed

1984

Status

extant

Done by

Poul Gernes, the school's students

IDname

PG-Z-83

Anthology

Finn Thybo Andersen on Gladsaxe Continuation School

A portal has been created around the main building’s entrance. On either side is a column, consisting of six rectangular cement reliefs with floral motifs, placed above each other, with a circular relief on top.

Along the length of the building, approximately eighty circular cement reliefs are placed at the level of one meter. On the outside of the schoolyard is a corresponding number of similar reliefs.

Under a porch roof in the schoolyard, many smaller polychrome ceramic reliefs are mounted on the brick wall. They were made at a workshop for the school’s students.

Finn Thybo Andersen: Poul Gernes Decoration Projects. London 2018, p. 257. Translated by Dan A. Marmorstein. Excerpt.