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Henning Larsen's Greatest Building Was Also His Greatest Failure
The architect, who died last month, spent the last years of his career carefully disowning the Copenhagen Opera House.
In design-mad Denmark, the architect Henning Larsen, who died last month at 87, was a household name.
Over a career that spanned seven decades, he received over a dozen architecture awards and earned a reputation as a "master of light." The national website of Denmark has anointed him one of the country’s seven great architects. The grand public buildings he designed with namesake firm Henning Larsen Architects redefined cityscapes from Riyadh to Reykjavik.