in
Nuuk, Greenland Schmidt Hammer Lassen was established in 1986 by Morten Schmidt, Bjarne Hammer and John F. Lassen. in
The Hague The partners include CEO Sanne Wall-Gremstrup, Kristian Lars Ahlmark, Elif Tinaztepe, Kasper Heiberg Frandsen, Mads Kaltoft, René Nedergaard, and Chris Hardie. The practice had its first major project with the
Katuaq Culture Centre in
Nuuk,
Greenland, completed in 1997. The project in Nuuk was followed by first prize in the international competition for the extension of the
Danish Royal Library on the harbourfront in
Copenhagen. The library extension, also known as the
Black Diamond, was completed in 1999. Another major project is the
ARoS Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark, which was completed in 2004. In May 2011, the art work
Your rainbow panorama, by
Olafur Eliasson, was officially unveiled on the roof top of the museum. In 2010, SHL won the competition to design the first permanent premises for the
International Criminal Court (ICC) in
The Hague, the Netherlands. The project was completed in 2015. In 2011, SHL established a studio in Shanghai, to serve their increasing client base in Asia. Completed projects include the Ningbo New Library in
Ningbo, China (2019), China's largest new library
Shanghai Library East (2023), the West Bund Dome Art Center (2024) and the world's largest
waste-to-energy power plant called the Shenzhen Energy Ring (2024). ==Product design==