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We have many 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.

Copenhagen Building News

Copenhagen Architecture News arranged chronologically:

8 July 2026
New Climate Park
Design: SLA

photo © SLA

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8 December 2025
Harmonikahusene, Frederiksberg
Design: EFFEKT Architects

photo : EFFEKT Architects

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5 July 2024
The Living Places Copenhagen
Architect: EFFEKT

photo : Adam Mork
The Living Places, Copenhagen, Denmark

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

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Copenhagen Architecture Designs News in 2023

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

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Denmark Capital Building Photos in 2022

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

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

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Danish Capital Design Pictures in 2013 to 2021

19 Oct 2021
BIO4 Power Plant
Design: Gottlieb Paludan Architects

photo : Allan Tofft
BIO4 Power Plant Copenhagen

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

photos : Helene Høyer, Brian Berg
Isfuglen Winter Bathing House

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23 Oct 2019
Karen Blixens Plads

photograph : Rasmus Hjortshøj
Karen Blixens Plads
A new, major square in Copenhagen: Karen Blixens Plads. The square has a unique undulating landscape with hollow hills and low bicyclebeds creating a new and innovative way to park bicycles.

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19 Dec 2018
Red Cross Volunteer House, 27 Blegdamsvej, Copenhagen Ø
Architects: COBE
Red Cross Volunteer House
The Red Cross Volunteer House gives 34,000 volunteers a setting for the continuous development of their work in Denmark.

8 Jan 2018
New Islands Brygge School, København S
Design: C. F. Møller Architects

image courtesy of architects office
New Islands Brygge School Building in Copenhagen
The New Islands Brygge School is taking shape between Islands Brygge’s vibrant city life and Amager Commons’ green countryside – a new school building for lower-secondary pupils, and with special focus on food and movement. The school building will accommodate a total of 784 pupils up to school-leaving age, as well as the school’s staff and a sports hall.

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31 Aug 2017

New photos:

New Danish Architecture Centre (DAC) building:

photo © Adrian Welch
Copenhagen Architecture Photos

Københavns Hovedbanegård:

photographs © Adrian Welch

Radisson SAS Royal Hotel Copenhagen – classic 20th Century building by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen:

18 Jul 2017
Copenhagen Sorte Hus in Copenhagen

17 Jul 2017
The Roof House in Copenhagen

12 Jul 2017
Barr Restaurant in Copenhagen

5 Jul 2017
Fisketorvet – Copenhagen Mall

28 Jun 2017
The Silo Apartments, Fortkaj, Nordhavnen
Design: COBE, architects

photographe : Rasmus Hjortshøj – COAST
The Silo Apartments, Nordhavnen
The Silo is part of the transformation of Copenhagen’s Nordhavn – a vast post-industrial development, currently being transformed into a new city district. Designed by Danish architects COBE with clients Klaus Kastbjerg and NRE Denmark, a 17-storey former grain silo and the largest industrial building in the area has been transformed into “The Silo”, housing residential apartments and public functions.

10 Mar 2017
CHART ARCHITECTURE Competition 2017

photo courtesy of Rasmus Hjortshøj
Copenhagen Architecture Contest in 2017
CHART ART FAIR presents its most ambitious architecture competition to date accepting entries from 7 – 10 April 2017. Judges include Bjarkes Ingels, Bjørnstene Christiansen, Débora Mesa and Simon Frommenwiler.

13 Feb 2017
Langhusene AlmenBolig+Langhusene, Hvidovre
Design: ONV Architects

image courtesy of architects
Langhusene AlmenBolig+ in Hvidovre
ONV Architects, in cooperation with Scandi Byg, have developed a new economic housing concept: AlmenBolig+. The concept has been applied in seven locations around Denmark.

20 Jan 2017
Urban Hospice Building, Frederiksberg
Design: Nord Architects

image courtesy of architects
Urban Hospice Building in Copenhagen
A contemporary Urban Hospice intended to create a positive environment while offering support for patients in need of palliative care.

Copenhagen Airport Expansion

Krøyers Plads Housing

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

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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 Oct 2013
MOE Buddinge Office, near Copenhagen
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

photo : Adam Mørk
MOE Buddinge Office
The official inauguration of a sustainable office building took place on Friday 27 September 2013 when Danish engineering company MOE opened the doors to their new head office in Buddinge near Copenhagen, Denmark. schmidt hammer lassen architects has designed the 7,500-square-metre building organized as one long spiral staircase. The result is a dynamic office environment that creates synergy and encourages movement.

30 Aug 2013
Kalvebod Waves, central Copenhagen
Design: KLAR + JDS/Julien de Smedt Architects

photo from architects office
Kalvebod Waves
“What has doomed the Kalvebod area until now were the long shadows drawn by the imposing structures fronting it. We studied the course of those shadows throughout the day and the year and located two main pockets of shadow-free zones. We decided to program those areas as resting islands on the water. From there on, all we needed was to find an active way to reconnect those islands to the urban network and to make them relate to the city’s infrastructure.”

7 Aug 2013
Kajkanten
Design: Danielsen Architecture

photo from architect
Kajkanten
The housing project Kajkanten is the most recent expansion on Havnestaden – the area adjacent to Havneparken at Islands Brygge. Following Kalvedbod Brygge, Havnestaden is the next large development project in the inner harbour of Copenhagen. With its new community centre and summer attractions, including the green lawn and harbour pool, Havneparken appears as a new cultural dynamo of Copenhagen.

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
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.

5 Mar 2013
Amager Bakke – Waste-to-Energy Plant Copenhagen – news
Design: BIG

image : BIG & MIR
Amager Bakke
Located in an industrial area near the city centre the new Waste-to-Energy plant will be an exemplary model in the field of waste management and energy production, as well as an architectural landmark in the cityscape of Copenhagen. The project is the single largest environmental initiative in Denmark and replaces the adjacent outdated Amagerforbraending plant, integrating the latest technologies in waste treatment and environmental performance.

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27 Nov 2012
Blue Planet, Amager, southern Copenhagen
Design: 3XN Architects
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.
The walls and roofs form a single, continuous flow and the longest of the whirlpool’s arms follows the shape of the landscape and the building, moving into the land inviting visitors inside. As soon as visitors arrive at The Blue Planet, the building will convey a sense of the special experience that awaits them inside.

15 Oct 2012
Carlsberg Plot 8
Design: NORD
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.

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

7 Jun 2012
Copenhagen Arena
Architects: 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
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
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.

29 Feb 2012
NOMA Restaurant
GXN
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
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.

16 Jan 2012
Mirror House Copenhagen : MLRP Architects
Danish-American based architects MLRP has transformed an existing graffiti-plagued playground structure to an inviting and reflective pavilion as part of the new Interactive Playground Project in Copenhagen.

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Copenhagen Building News 2011

16 Dec 2011
Sankt Kjelds Plads Copenhagen : Europan 11
Kubota & Bachmann Architects

24 Oct 2011
Cleaning Facilities Centre
POLYFORM + KARRES EN BRANDS
This is a classical challenging task: how to establish innovative architecture in an age-old quarter of the city and still respect the old environment? The collaboration between the Danish architecture firm POLYFORM architects and the Dutch architecture firm KARRES EN BRANDS Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning led to the idea of building underground instead of building on the surface.

1 Aug 2011
Nykredit Headquarters Building
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
The extension to Nykredit consists of a new building – the Crystal.

22 Aug 2011
Sølvgade School
C. F. Møller Architects
Denmark’s oldest school, the listed Sølvgade School built in 1847, close to King Christian IV’s famous historic naval barracks, Nyboder, in Copenhagen, has for many years been lacking space and modern facilities. C. F. Moller has carefully renovated the school and done an extension which in its form and colors is true to the surroundings, but also adds a modernistic twist to the school.

25 May 2011
Hotel d’Angleterre renovation
C. F. Møller Architect

16 May 2011
Bella Hotel Building
3XN

14 Apr 2011
Herlev Hospital
Henning Larsen Architects

24 Jan 2011
Northwest Park
SLA

24 Jan 2011
The City Dune
SLA

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Copenhagen Architecture Tours : city walks by e-architect guides

Copenhagen Building News

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Copenhagen Buildings

Guide to New Copenhagen buildings + architecture developments in the city

Dansk Arkitektur

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.

Copenhagen Architecture Photos

Copenhagen Architects

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Ten Key Copenhagen Buildings

Danish Architectural Designs, chronological:

Round Tower / Rundetårn
various, architects
Rundetårn København

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

SAS Royal Hotel Copenhagen
Arne Jacobsen Architect
SAS Royal Hotel Copenhagen

Bagsvaerd Church
Jorn Utzon Architect
Bagsvaerd Church
The exterior is quite hard and some of the materials (steep corrugated roof) and proportions (the stepping-down flanks atop the north and south facades either side of the ‘nave’) don’t sit quite right, but the interior is a tour-de-force, concealed lighting and ‘cloud’ ceiling being the highlights.

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

Royal Library – Extension
Schmidt, Hammer and Lassen Architects
Sort Diamant – ‘Black Diamond’

Gemini Residence – Harbour Pods
MVRDV Architects / Jørgensen & Wolhfeldts
Gemini Copenhagen Housing

Copenhagen Opera House
Henning Larsen Arkitekt
Copenhagen Opera House
The design is reminiscent of the Concert Hall at Lucerne, Switzerland by architect Jean Nouvel*. When I visited Copenhagen in 2002 Holmen was a dull naval base cut off from the city; a recent visit in 2005 shows the huge cantilevers dominating the harbour from Knippelsbro. The Danish Architecture Centre is located just to the west in the lovely old quarter of Christianshavn.

Ordrupgaard Art Museum – New Wing
Zaha Hadid Architects
Ordrupgaard Copenhagen

Nykredit Headquarters Building
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Nykredit Headquarters Building – the Crystal

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Copenhagen Architecture

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

Jarmers Place
Brandt Hell Hansted Holscher Arkitekter
Copenhagen tower

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

New Elephant House – Copenhagen Zoo / Elefant Hus København Zoo
Foster + Partners
Copenhagen Zoo Elephant House
This bold architectural project has been driven by research into the behavioural patterns of elephants. The tendency for bull elephants in the wild to roam away from the main herd prompted a plan organised around two separate enclosures.

Ørestad apartments
PLOT Architects
Copenhagen Apartments

Copenhagen Town Hall + Square

Copenhagen Office Buildings

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark, northern Europe

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