BeCopenhagen - Urbanism + Architecture Bike Tours

20/12/2024

❤️🎄✨🚴Dressed up for the festive season!
Villa Hotel, previously the Post Office Headquarters of Denmark, lighting up on a dark, cold, and rainy December afternoon.
Villa Hotel is situated right across Copenhagen Central Station and next to the Tivoli Gardens.

The building was transformed and opened as a modern luxurious hotel in 2020 but was originally erected in 1912. Back then, it was nick-named ‘the toilet palace’ because of the great the amount of toilets for the office workers.

The neo-baroque original facade is highlighted with dramatic yet discrete lighting, topped with a festive red light in the tower!

17/12/2024

🎅🚴🎄Advent season at Queen Louise's Bridge, Nørrebro, Copenhagen.
At the beginning of Nørrebrogade, Queen Louise's Bridge is both a popular meeting spot, a place to party, a beloved sunset viewpoint, and a bicycling thoroughfare for around 30.000 bicyclists every day.

15 years ago, the pavement and bike lanes were broadened, while the car lanes were narrowed on Nørrebrogade. This transformed the arterial road of Nørrebrogade and the bridge from being a place for transport alone, into a great public space by the Lakes of Copenhagen.

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30/10/2024

🍂🚴☀️ Architecture and bikes - Vesterbrogade caught in the late afternoon autumn sun!

The building to the left is Arne Jacobsens SAS hotel, Denmark's first skyscraper. The hotel was designed by Jacobsen as a total work of art where everything, from the largest lines to the smallest detail, was of his making. The bands of windows makes the light shine through the cornes adding an exceptional lightness to the construction.

The golden-brown buildings to the right are the Axel Towers by Lundgaard and Tranberg Architects, which hold an almost-secret urban green space in between them. A business headquarters with a built-in place for a pause amidst the busy surroundings

24/10/2024

Charming Dragør is a beautiful 45 minutes bike ride away from Copenhagen, and a completely different world.
Dragør has many well-preserved historic buildings, and the old part of the town consists of idyllic cobbled streets with yellow-painted houses and red brick roofs. Most of the buildings are from the 18th and 19th centuries.