Erik Møller
Svend Erik Møller ( born November 7, 1909 in Aarhus, † 2002) was a Danish architect.
Life
From 1930 Møller was self-employed as an architect in an office with two partners. He collaborated on several projects with Arne Jacobsen. Together they won the 1936 architectural competition for the new city hall of Aarhus. During the construction of the functionalist building from 1938 to 1942 oversaw Møller working on site, while Jacobsen worked on other projects in Copenhagen. At the same time she also worked on the new town hall of Søllerød. After the war, fled to neutral Sweden before Jacobsen, they continued their cooperation. From 1955 to 1956, she developed the town hall of Rødovre, one of the first building with a curtain wall facade in Denmark. Then went their separate ways. Erik Møller coined the term "glass cigar box " for Arne Jacobsen's SAS Royal Hotel, which has an almost identical facade design as the jointly developed Rødovre Town Hall.
In 1959, he was responsible for the expansion of the Copenhagen branch of the Danish department store chain Magasin du Nord on Kongens Nytorv. At the main building, built in 1893, he built a four-story building, which also got a curtain wall facade. In 1965 he designed and built the first building of the Bella Center, which was founded in 1975 rebuilt as the event center was expanded to another location. From 1977 to 1979 he built for the Danish " Industry Council " ( Industrirådet ), the " House of Industry " ( Industriens Hus ) at the City Hall Square in central Copenhagen.