During the first years of its existence, Danish Broadcasting Corporation (Danish Statsradiofonien) was based at various locations in Copenhagen, including in
Stærekassen on
Kongens Nytorv and in Axelborg on
Vesterbrogade. As the organization grew, the need for a larger, purpose-built home became evident. Vilhelm Lauritzen was one of four members of a building committee which in the summer of 1934 went on a study trip to London, Paris, Brussels, Geneva, Zürich, Prague, Leipzig, Berlin and Konigsberg, visiting similar broadcasting houses, and later that year Lauritzen published a preliminary design proposal for a broadcasting house in
Arkitekten. The building went under construction in 1938 and was mostly ready in January 1941, although the concert hall was not completed until 1945. The complex was expanded with a new wing for DR's Television operations. In 1964, as they required still more space, they moved to the new
TV-Byen complex in
Gladsaxe, leaving only the radio broadcasting activities and corporate management in Radiohuset which saw another expansion in 1972. Television news, under the
TV Avisen banner, remained at Radiohuset before it moved to TV-Byen in October 1983. In 2001, Radiohuset was sold to the
Royal Danish Academy of Music which let it to DR until DR-byen was completed in 2006. ==Architecture==