5 Engineering Marvels in Copenhagen
5 landmarks with verified facts and stories
BLOX / Danish Architecture Center
10 Bryghusgade, Copenhagen, København K, 1473, Denmark
When Rem Koolhaas and OMA designed BLOX, they described it as "an inhabited infrastructure knot" — which is exactly the kind of thing architects say when they know a building is going to be controversial.
Cisternerne
Frederiksberg, Denmark
Beneath a gentle hill in Søndermarken Park lies Denmark's only dripstone cave — except it is not a cave at all.
Copenhagen City Hall
1 Rådhuspladsen, Copenhagen, København V, 1550, Denmark
Copenhagen's City Hall was designed by Martin Nyrop and completed in 1905 in the National Romantic style, drawing heavily on the medieval town halls of Siena and other Italian cities.
Copenhagen Opera House
10 Ekvipagemestervej, Copenhagen, København K, 1438, Denmark
The Copenhagen Opera House was a gift — but the kind of gift that comes with strings attached, a controlling donor, and enough drama to fill several operas.
Round Tower
Købmagergade 52A, 1150 København K
King Christian IV — who seems to have built half of Copenhagen — completed the Round Tower in 1642 as Europe's oldest functioning astronomical observatory, and the design choice that makes it unique is the absence of stairs.
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