Guided Tour to South Harbor (Sydhavnen)
Copenhagen South Harbor in Copenhagen
Like a small Venetian district The South Harbor offers a lot of innovative and modern architecture, where the water and surroundings are thought into the masterplan.
Like many other European harbors The South Harbor has gone through a magnifient historical change. From being a pantry to King Frederik the first far outside the city, the district today appears as a modern area with exciting homes, good shops and many cultural offerings.
- Sluseholmen, Teglholmen og Fyrholmen were originally landfill and home to many industries. Today – a whole new canal district emerged with waterside homes, houseboats and harbour bath.
- Havneholmen Between 1958 -1999 this dockland was home to the city’s Fish Market. Nowadays for new residentials and companies.
- Sydhavn School by JJW Architects
- Little House family member house with indoor play areas, classes, activities and events
- Enghave Brygge Home to H.C.Ørsteds Powerplant 1920 and an area that’s currently undergoes a rapid urban rejuvenation.
- Charming houseboats in Skibbroen a Houseboat Association since 1987
- Kahyt og Kaffe best coffee in town on a Houseboat, rated so by the danish newspaper Politikken
- The Railway District previously an active area for Danish State Railway, now undergoing a transformation to a sustainable district by COBE Arc.
Practical info
Duration: up to 2,5 hrs.
Max 23 persons
Price: DKK 2400/ € 320
Additional hours DKK 500/ €66
Visit South Harbor (Sydhavnen) Copenhagen
It is said that the population in Copenhagen will increase by 100.000 inhabitants by 2025. In this context, The South Harbor has been designated as an urban development area. The plan is to bring together homes and businesses in the attractive harbor area, and many predict it to become Copenhagen’s hippest area in a few years
The School in Sydhavnen
Is a large and dramatic building in steel with a closed facade. Some part of the roof towards the street is supported on high columns, which forms some kind of cover over the area where children and parents say hello to their friends in the morning and in the afternoon. When you go around the building, it opens up in a more welcoming backside with big windows, terraces, raised play areas in different levels, and steps right down to the water in the harbor.
The building inside is in several levels too and has narrow staircases. A lot of daylight is let in to the colourful lecture rooms and meeting spots with deep window seats and areas on the terraces, made for social life with your schoolmates. With school buildings like this, Danish children grow up appreciating good design and see it as an importen part of comfort in their daily lives.
A guided tour with focus on South Harbor & The Railway District
A guided tour through Sydhavnen where we add an area in transformation could look like this. We begin at the sculpture A Real Danish Family, chosen from 500 to represent 37 family types. We look back on Sydhavnen’s labor history, the houseboat association Skibbroen, the graffiti fence with stories of earth and mythology, and the Ørsted Power Plant’s transition from coal to combined heat and power. We pass by the School in Sydhavnen and follow Otto Bussevej into The Railway District (Jernbanebyen), where COBE’s urban plan proposes new green residential neighborhoods – still on the drawing board, but along the way, we see existing buildings to remain: Lokomotivværkstedet and the Vognværkstedet, relics of the area’s railway heritage. We also visit the Yellow City, Spor 10 og Banegården, completing a journey full of contrasts between the industrial, the creative, and the possible.