Guided Tour to Ørestad in Copenhagen
BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
Bjarke Ingels is perhaps the most well-known star architect practicing today. As the founder and creative power behind BIG, he is behind of dozens of projects like; Google Headquarters, Lego House, Via 57 West and two World Trade Center Towers in Manhattan. He is one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, and honored by a lot of architecture and design awards. He teaches at Yale School of Architecture & The Harvard Graduate School of Design. His very first buildings were established here in Ørestad. He has said that he dont want to build buildings that looks like buildings! We don’t have any mountains in Denmark – the highest point is 170 m so Bjarke Ingels seems to be determined to give us buildings that looks like mountains.
Highlights
- VM House – The Mountain & 8-House the spectacular trilogy By BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, last one allowing people to bike all the way from the street up to its 10th level, alongside terraced gardens
- Tietgen Youth College by Lundgaard & Tranberg
- IT-University by Henning Larsen Architects
- Crowne Plaza – Copenhagen Towers visit inside the worlds greenest hotel
- Resource Rows and Upcicle Studios, by Lendager Group
Practical info
Duration: up to 3 hrs.
Transportation: Metro, tickets not incl.
Max 20 persons
Price: DKK 2.880/ € 384
Additional hours DKK 500/ €66
Visit Ørestaden in Copenhagen
We will begin our tour in front of the large scale model of Ørestaden, which shows 4 neighborhoods centeret around the Metroline
- Creative and scientific educational institutions; DR, IT university
- Residential area with world class architecture; PLOT, BIG, 3 X Nielsen
- Shopping / entertainment area; inspired by Manchester shopping mall Westfield Shopping center
- Office spaces: Ferring, Bombardier, Wagon–lit , HOFOR, Rambøll.
Sustainability in Ørestaden – worlds greenest hotel
Hotel Crowne Plaza is Denmark’s leading hotel in terms of sustainability which permeates every aspect of the hotel. Its green profile means that they consume 65% less energy than other com–parable hotels.
We will go inside and see Black Olive Trees in a dense forest in the lobby, which is public – the hotel wants it to be an open place during day . We will feel the perfect microclimate provided by the glass-roofed structure. It gives a comfy green feeling to the visitors when it’s dark and cold outside during the Danish winter.
In the kitchen all food waste is crushed and sucked into a 10.000 l tank in the basement, from which it is transported to a biogas plant and converted. And a lot of other creative and sustainable initiatives have been completed, which I hardly can wait to show you.