Kødbyen Industrial Heritage Walk

Øksnehallen features an enormous arched roof of corrugated iron and heavy red brick walls, unmistakable among the flatter, more modern buildings nearby. It served as the city’s cattle market for nearly a century, built in nineteen oh one…

A cluster of faint, hand-painted German inscriptions sits near the ground on the brick base of a Copenhagen warehouse. During the nineteen forties, soldiers from the occupying Wehrmacht forces painted these markings to designate specific…

The Fotografisk Center occupies a renovated industrial hall within the former Carlsberg brewery district. Its most striking feature is the expansive glass facade that floods the gallery with natural light, a sharp contrast to the heavy,…

V1 Gallery occupies a converted butcher shop in the Meatpacking District of Copenhagen. Its facade features large industrial windows and a plain, unadorned exterior that blends into the surrounding brick buildings. When Jesper Elg founded…

The Warpigs Brewpub features a facade of dark, charred wood and large industrial windows that reveal stainless steel fermentation tanks. This building occupies a former locomotive workshop in the meatpacking district. It exists as a…

Kødbyens Fiskebar features a wall of illuminated, bubbling saltwater aquariums that hold live oysters and shellfish. The restaurant occupies a former industrial butcher shop in Copenhagen’s meatpacking district, a neighborhood once…

Flæsketorvet features low, white, concrete buildings with distinct arched windows and yellow brick detailing. This was once the center of Copenhagen's meatpacking district, designed by architect Halldor Gunnløgsson in the nineteen thirties…