Urban Renewal

A Copenhagen family trades the suburbs for a quaint town house steeped in tradition.

In a moment of brutal honesty, Mia Dalgas and her husband acknowledged that the sleek modern house they had built in a northern Copenhagen suburb wasn’t the home for them. "We missed the city," says Mia, mother of two. "We thought we had built our dream house, but it just wasn’t."

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Micha van Dinther
Micha van Dinther specializes in design and text – two areas that are equally close to his heart. Sometimes in conjunction, sometimes on their own.

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