AMAGER
This
page is about the west outskirts of Copenhagen that are situated on the separate
island Amager. Copenhagen Airport in Kastrup is situated there,
and so is the
new business district Ørestad. Amager is the first part you come to when
you arrive in Copenhagen.
Ørestad
Orestad is the new area that have developed around the shopping mall Fields and Ferrings Building, between the airport and the city center. A lot of
new hotels, residential, a WTC and other office buildings with innovative have been built recently. Several highrises, all about 20 floors high, are now
also under construction, so the area will have a skyline of its own in the future.
Field's, Scandinavia's largest mall. It is brand new, because it opened as late
as in 2005. In the mall there are more than 150 stores and restaurants, including 2
supermarkets
and a 3-story branch of the Magasine department store. Areal: 115.000 m2.
Inside Field's. It is very modern and fresh inside
Field's have several atriums and glass enclosed elevators.
The new metro, Ferrings and the Öresundsbro train to Sweden are all close
to Field's.
Ferrings Building in Ørestad. This new (2002) 20-story, 80m tall,
headquarters for this medical company.
This is the landmark of Ørestad,
a new business district under construction. Ørestad is Copenhagen´s
new answer to Paris La Défense.
It has now company with the Crowne Plaza Hotel, the chain’s first hotel in Scandinavia.
Crowne Plaza was completed in 2009. At 85 m, 25 floors, it is the 2nd tallest hotel in Denmark. Together with the new World Trade Center that is u/c, it will be called Copenhagen Towers.
The new metro in Copenhagen (2001). These new metro trains are computercontrolled and
driverless! They go partly above ground.
The driverless metro. I took this picture from the front seat where the driver sits in traditional trains.
This brandnew subway system also features glassdoors at the stations.
You can sometimes get a rollercoaster like feeling when sitting in the front seats of the new metro trains!
The new canals of Ørestad.
Hotel Cabinn Metro, another brand new highrise hotel.
New residential buildings of Ørestad, next to the metro.
A spectacular residential building by VM in glass with balconies shaped like icicles.
Even the garden is triangular!
An architectural masterpiece!
Bjerget (“the mountain”), a new residential building (from 2008), designed by BIG architects, with a rare design that is built like a mountain on one side. On the other side you can see the parking garage going into the building so you can park your right outside your apartment. Though the design is interesting, it looked stiff and deserted and many of the apartments were vacant.
The picture of a mountain that you can see on the wall is actually built up by holes.
The corridors of every floor have different colours and can be seen from the outside. Note the roof gardens and the picture of the mountain.
The other side of Bjerget is completely different, this side is like a mountain with roof terraces, hence the name.
Bjerget inside, looks like a residential building for cars.
There are several paintings of cars inside.
Climbing “the mountain”.
Views from the top of “the mountain”, Bjerget:
Downtown skyline seen from Bjerget.
Belle Hotel, the new leaning towers under construction. This twin highrise hotel will be 77m tall and have 814 rooms when completed in 2011.
The unconventional towers, 23 floors each, will be situated right next to Bella Center, Denmark’s largest congress center.
modern fullscale dollhouse, opposite Bjerget that is mirroring in the glass facade.
The Swedish bank SEB:s new headquarters in Orestad.
The new urbanism of Orestad, empty fields about 10 years ago: now Crowne Plaza and Fields.
The new media center under constrution, seen from the metro.
Copenhagen Airport
Copenhagen International Airport as seen from Öresundsbron.
The new Terminal 3 that is designed with the shape of an airplane.
Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup, with the Hilton to the right and the new Terminal
3 to the left.