Hello, I am an art historian, and as part of a current research project I am trying to identify/confirm identification of a building that was published in Amedee Ozenfant's book "The Foundations of Modern Art". It was titled Copenhagen Prison but I have been unable to confirm this or anything else about the building. I have posted a picture of it at the link below and if anyone could provide any information at all it would be much appreciated.
This is it - shaped like a pentagram: http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:xXynm0uZ3NEJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kastellet,_Copenhagen+Copenhagen+Prison&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us&lr=lang_en http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:4CRby_Ih1LAJ:news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3036450.stm+Copenhagen+Prison&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&lr=lang_en
Well, what can I say? You stirred my interest and I found the following:
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:a85R5SIoVuUJ:
To follow all the hits I found:
My first thoughts (before being poluted by the OP's actual text ;-) were also of pre-panopticon model prison. I found
I can't figure what the round areas in each of them are for, but they were similar enough to make me think the OP's image is also a prison.
It's changed a little over the years, but it's clearly the place
55 deg 39' 34.82" N 12 deg 20' 52.82" E9 miles west and 1 1/2 miles south of Copenhagen. Town of Albertslund.
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