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post updated 26 July 2024

We have 5 pages of Copenhagen Buildings selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages. e-architect cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across Denmark. Our focus is on contemporary Danish buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.

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5 July 2024
The Living Places Copenhagen
Architect: EFFEKT

photo : Adam Mork
The Living Places, Copenhagen, Denmark

16 April 2024
The Opera Park
One of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings is on fire and its iconic spire has collapsed:
Børsen København

21 November 2023
The Opera Park
Design: Cobe

photo : Francisco Tirado
The Opera Park

25 April 2023
The School on Islands Brygge, Secondary School, Artillerivej 126, 2300 København S, Danmark
Design: C.F. Møller Architects

photo : Adam Mørk
Islands Brygge School Copenhagen Building

6 Oct 2022
Ferring Pharmaceuticals A/S, Kastrup
Design: Foster + Partners

photo : Nigel Young / Foster + Partners
Ferring Pharmaceuticals A/S Copenhagen

27 Mar 2022
New Danish capital architectural photographs
New Danish capital architectural photographs by architect Adrian Welch

photo © Adrian Welch
Copenhagen Architecture Photos

Updated 14 Feb 2022
Carlsberg Central Office, Valby
Design: C.F. Møller Architects

photo : Adam Mørk
Carlsberg Central Office Valby Building

1 Sep 2021
Isfuglen Winter Bathing House, Brøndby Marine Harbor
Design: Matters architects

photos : Helene Høyer, Brian Berg
Isfuglen Winter Bathing House

Nov 2015
Building Photos in the Danish Capital City
Copenhagen Building Photos

Photos of the Nordhavn Silo under construction – 6 Oct 2013

photos : Niels Lomholt

3 Oct 2013
Blaa Planet, Kastrup, Copenhagen, Denmark – World Architecture Festival Award news
Architect: 3XN

photo from architects
Denmark’s new National Aquarium has won the Display Award at the prestigious World Architecture Festival. Inspired by the shape of water in endless motion, The Blue Planet building is shaped as a great whirlpool.

3 Jul 2013
UN City
Design: 3XN

photo : Adam Mørk
The new regional head office of the United Nations is designed with clear references to the UN’s identity and values: It is a building that physically reaches out to all parts the world, while the sculptural staircase in its core reflects the UN’s work to create global dialogue.

8 Mar 2013
Centre for Cancer and Health
Design: NORD Architects

photo : Adam Mørk
Centre for Cancer and Health Copenhagen
Research shows that architecture can have a positive effect on people’s recovery from sickness. A human scale and a welcoming atmosphere can help people to get better. Despite of this, most hospitals are hardly comfy. Just finding the way from the reception to the canteen can be difficult. If we want people to get better at our hospitals, we need to deinstitutionalize and create a welcoming healthcare.

27 Nov 2012
Blue Planet, Amager, southern Copenhagen
Design: 3XN Architects

photo from 3XN
Blue Planet Copenhagen
The Blue Planet will be Northern Europe’s largest aquarium. Architecturally, the aquarium is shaped like a whirlpool, giving associations to eddies of fish, birds and sea currents. The building is in Copenhagen, at the island of Amager, close to the Copenhagen Airport, and viewed from a plane the whirlpool shape will be shown in full.

15 Oct 2012
Carlsberg Plot 8
Design: NORD

image from architect
Carlsberg Plot 8
The setting is the former industrial compound of Danish brewery giant Carlsberg in central Copenhagen. This historic context frames one of the most important urban developments in creating the future Copenhagen. The new city is to be developed over the next 25 years and will host a programme of education, housing, culture business and recreational areas.

23 Jul 2012
N. Zahles Upper Secondary School
Architect: Rørbæk og Møller Arkitekter ApS

photo © Adam Mørk
N. Zahles Upper Secondary School
Rørbæk & Møller Architects have designed and project managed the extension of the N. Zahles Upper Secondary School. Over a period of more than 150 years, the N. Zahles Upper Secondary School has held a prominent position within the education of children and young adults.

18 Jun 2012
Experimentarium i Hellerup
Design: CEBRA Architects

image from architects
Experimentarium Science Center
The A.P. Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation has donated DKK 200 mio. to the modernization and extension of the science center and museum Experimentarium in Hellerup, Copenhagen. In 2011, CEBRA won the architecture competition for the new Experimentarium and the approximately 320,000 sqft project is is brought one substantial step closer to realization.

7 Jun 2012
Copenhagen Arena
Architects: 3XN

image © 3XN
Copenhagen Arena
A team of 3XN, HKS Architects, Arup, ME Engineers and Planit has won the design competition for the new Copenhagen Arena, which will be situated in the Ørestad-area a short metro ride from the city center of Denmark’s capital. The project is expected to be completed in the fall of 2015.

27 Apr 2012
Nordea Bank Office Building
Henning Larsen Architects + Signal Architects + SLA Landscape Architects

image © Henning Larsen Architects
Nordea Bank Building
Henning Larsen Architects and a team consisting of Signal Architects and SLA Landscape Architects have won the competition for Nordea Bank’s new office building of 40,000 m2 in Ørestad North, Copenhagen, next to the premises of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation and the Concert Hall – Koncerthuset. The building will comprise Scandinavia’s largest trading floor of 5,500 m2.

28 Mar 2012
Woven Bridge, Copenhagen Central Park
MLRP Architects

photograph : Jens Lindhe
Woven Bridge
Danish-American Architects MLRP, based in Copenhagen, has completed a new foot bridge in Copenhagen Central Park. The Woven Bridge is a modern interpretation of a classical steel park bridge. With the new Woven Bridge, crossing the lake in Copenhagen Central Park and getting close to the water finally becomes possible. It allows for viewing the park and lake from new perspectives.

29 Feb 2012
NOMA Restaurant
GXN

picture : Adam Mørk
NOMA Restaurant
Interior by 3XN for NOMA Restaurant’s food lab unites the creative worlds of gastronomy and architecture in a modern expression of the Nordic aesthetic.

2 Feb 2012
KPMG Headquarters Copenhagen
3XN

picture © Adam Mørk
KPMG Headquarters Copenhagen
A balance between a thoughtful blending into the surrounding scale and an elegant, yet significant expression has been the driving thought behind Danish practice 3XN’s design of the new Copenhagen Headquarters for accountancy and consultancy firm, KPMG. The company is certain that their new building gives them the right settings and environment to achieve future growth.

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Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark, the smallest country in Scandinavia. It is famous for the longest pedestrian street in Europe – the Strøget – and for good clean design: furniture, gorgeous hotels, lights, architecture, etc. The city is located by the sea on the east coast of Sealand, opposite Sweden. Copenhagen used to be a walled city and the embankments are still visible in Christianshavn.

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Danish Architectural Designs, chronological:

Round Tower / Rundetårn
various, architects

photo from Danish Architecture Centre
Rundetårn København

Grundtvig Kirke / Grundtvig Kirke
P.V. Jensen-Klint Architect

building image © Adrian Welch
Grundtvig Church

SAS Royal Hotel Copenhagen
Arne Jacobsen Architect

photo © Adrian Welch
SAS Royal Hotel Copenhagen

Bagsvaerd Church
Jorn Utzon Architect

photograph © AW
Bagsvaerd Church

Danish National Bank Building, Havnegade
Arne Jacobsen, Architect; Dissing + Weitling

picture © Adrian Welch
Danish National Bank

Gemini Residence – Harbour Pods
MVRDV Architects / Jørgensen & Wolhfeldts

photograph © AW
Gemini Copenhagen Housing

Nykredit Headquarters Building
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

photo : Adam Mørk
Nykredit Headquarters Building – the Crystal

Copenhagen Architecture

Copenhagen Airport Terminal 3 & Control Tower, Amager
Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects

photograph from VLA
Copenhagen Airport Building

National Broadcasting Company Concert Hall / DR Byen, Ørestad
Design: various architects

foto : dragoer luftfoto
DR Byen

New Elephant House – Copenhagen Zoo / Elefant Hus København Zoo
Foster + Partners

photograph : Nigel Young_Foster + Partners
Copenhagen Zoo Elephant House

Copenhagen Town Hall + Square

Copenhagen Office Buildings

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark, northern Europe

Key Buildings near Copenhagen

Louisiana Art Gallery, northeast Sealand
Jørgen Bo & Vilhelm Wohlert Architects

photograph © AW
Louisiana Art Gallery

Houses in Fredensborg, North Sjælland: Jorn Utzon architect

Kingo Houses, Elsinore: Jorn Utzon architect

JF Willumsen Museum, Frederikssund: Tyge Hvass architect

Jorn Utzon – the designer of the Sydney Opera House

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