5 Contemporary Art Landmarks 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 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.
Paper Island (Papirøen)
Trangravsvej 14, 1436 København K
Paper Island — Papirøen in Danish — earned its name from decades as the storage site for Copenhagen's major newspapers.
Superkilen
Nørrebrogade 210, 2200 København N
Before 2012, Nørrebro was Copenhagen's most troubled neighbourhood — ethnically diverse, economically disadvantaged, and scarred by gang violence and the 2006 riots triggered by controversial newspaper cartoons.
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