# Dreyers Fond

Dreyers Fond (English: The Dreyer Foundation) is a Copenhagen-based Danish foundation founded by husband-and wife Thorvald and Margot Dreyer in 1976. Thorvald Dreyer was an architect. Margot Dreyer was a lawyer. The foundation supports projects and activities aimed at promoting the development of the architects’ and lawyers’ professions and their interaction with society. The annual Dreyer Honorary Award honors excellence in architecture as well as law. The foundation is also active in the market for real estate investments.

## Real estate portfolio
### Løvenborg

Dreyers Fond is based in the Løvenborg building on Vesterbrogade in Copenhagen. The building is from 1906 and was designed by Anton Rosen. Dreyers Fond acquired the building in 2000 and subsequently undertook a renovation which received the Europa Nostra Award in 2004.

### Vesterbrogade 32: Valencia Building

In September 2012, Dreyers Fond acquired the building at Vesterbrogade 32 in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen. It first opened in 1858 to design by H. S. Stilling under the name Thors Ølhal but later developed into the largest cabaret in the Nordic region under the name Valencia. The complex has been renovated by Dorte Mandrup Architects and now houses the Association of Danish Law Firms.

### Højbro Plads 3: Warburg House

In October 2012, Dreyers Fond acquired the listed Warburg House on Højbro Plads in central Copenhagen. The 1,112 building dates from. It contains the coffee chain Baresso's first coffee bar and other tenants include Toga Vinstue and a cocktail bar.

### Fælledvej 19

In 2014, Dreyers Fond acquired two buildings on Fælledvej at No. 19 in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen consists of a residential building on the street dating from 1858 as well as an industrial building from 1908 in the courtyard. In 2015, Holscher Nordberg Architects completed a renovation of the industrial building which now contains 6 apartments.

## Dreyer Honorary Award recipients
### Architecture

| Year | Recipient | Motivation |
| 2016 | Praksis Arkitekter | for elaborate works that produces urban place bound architecture with concern to traditions |
| 2016 | Kristine Jensen | |
| 2015 | Dan Stubbergaard | for the studio's brilliant ability to embrace the city's daily life in unpretentious and animating frames. |
| 2014 | Frank Maali and Gemma Lalanda | for their empathetic and imaginative transformations of historic buildings and urban spaces. |
| 2012 | Marianne Levinsen | for her poetic and empathetic works with landscape and urban space. |
| 2011 | Bjarke Ingels | for his dauntless and surprising way of thinking how to build and live. |
| 2010 | Helle Søholt and Jan Gehl, Gehl Architects | for the couple's compelling way to bring focus on the human dimension of urban planning worldwide, with the slogan: Cities for people. |
| 2009 | Richard Leplastrier | for his genuine understanding of the true meaning of sustainability, based on a philosophy best summed up by the motto: "Let’s cultivate less!" |
| 2008 | Steen Høyer | for his inspiring work in developing the art of landscaping and establishing overall quality settings for a sustainable development of open land |
| 2007 | Erik Christian Sørensen | for his lifelong contribution to architecture and his unique work as an instructor and professor at the School of Architecture. |
| 2006 | Jørn Utzon | because he managed through his way of working with architecture to clarify the connection between inspiration, ideas, creation and work in such way so he will always be an educative and inspiring role model for others |
| 2005 | Signe and Christian Cold, Entasis | for its sensitive and calculated completion of its projects that are carried out with brilliance, magic, unusually high quality and great awareness of architectural methods |
| 2003 | Stig Lennart Andersson | for unusual sensitivity, discipline and respect for details and materials |
| 2003 | Dorte Mandrup | for her ability to maturely, originally and independently interpret time |
| 2002 | Lene Tranberg and Boje Lundgaard | for their significant artistic work on many beautiful buildings in a very broad spectrum |
| 2001 | Knud Holscher | for his great talent for styling, from overall planning and architecture, to design |
| 2001 | Nils-Ole Lund | for his gifted way of engaging in questions surrounding architecture and for being one of the principal organizers in the establishment of the Århus School of Architecture |
| 2001 | Marianne Ingvartsen | for her engagement in teaching and practical work and competitions within urban renewal and housing |
| 2001 | Jens Fredslund | for his considerate and high quality work with the restoration of buildings |
| 2001 | Knud Fladeland | for his talented architecture work in many competitions with forward-looking and promising results |
| 1999 | Henning Larsen | for his ability to create outstanding architecture that brings greater experiences than the assignments require |
| 1998 | David Bretton-Meyer | for his significant contribution to raise the consideration to care and respect of our architectural heritage, including his restoration of neoclassical buildings such as for example the University Copenhagen |
| 1997 | Knud Friis and Elmer Moltke | for a thorough approach to strength and quality regardless of the task or the budget – as well as the skill, professionalism and architectural nerve that supports the quality |
| 1995 | Tobias Faber | for his importance to Danish architecture and for the quality of education within architecture and the development of the discipline |
| 1992 | Mogens Koch | for demonstrating a level of quality that has been of enormous importance for Danish industrial design throughout his long life. The honorary award is a portrait bust for “Kuppelsalen” in Charlottenborg made by sculptor Knud Nellemose |
| 1989 | The architecture prize was given to a publication about architect Johan Otto Spreckelsen’s structure “La Grande Arche de la Défence” in Paris |
| 1988 | Hanne Kjærholm | for her high level of quality and individuality as well as her brilliant alignment of continuity and modernity |
| 1985 | Ulrik Plesner | for his contributions as an architect and a teacher outside Denmark – in Sri Lanka and Israel |
| 1984 | Johan Fog and Per Følner | for the Wasa project in Stockholm. |
| 1982 | Vilhelm Wohlert | for his restoration of Copenhagen's Cathedral. |