Mozarts Plads in Copenhagen's Sydhavn spent years as little more than a fenced-off metro construction site; when the square finally reopened with its own station on the M4 line, ANKER opened at its edge and quickly settled into the rhythm of the neighbourhood. The cafe serves coffee, beer and sandwiches from morning until evening - some days as late as 8 pm - with the metro delivering visitors practically to the door. Reviewers have praised it as a place that feels like an extension of the old,.....

From the street it looks like any other classic Copenhagen shopfront, but behind the window on the corner of Stormgade and H.C. Andersens Boulevard archaeologists sit sorting, washing and registering finds dug up from beneath the city's streets. The Archaeological Workshop (Arkaeologisk Vaerksted) is a working facility of the Museum of Copenhagen, opened in 2017 on the back of the huge public interest in archaeology generated by the metro excavations. On selected open days - typically during sc.....

With more than 1,000 beds upstairs, the bar of Danhostel Copenhagen City never lacks company. BAR50 occupies the ground floor of the high-rise hostel on H.C. Andersens Boulevard by Langebro bridge, and works in shifts: breakfast room in the morning, cafe through the day with coffee, cakes and snacks, and from evening a proper bar pouring draught beer, bottled specials, cocktails and wine with a view over the harbour canal. The design-hostel setting - Gubi furniture and Bestlite lamps run throug.....

A former boiler room in a Vesterbro backyard, next door to the Vega concert houses, is the raw shell for one of Copenhagen's most distinctive small venues. Basement, run by the City of Copenhagen's culture unit Byliv Vesterbro, keeps the space deliberately unpolished - bare walls, high ceilings and what its own team calls a rough, unique frame without Danish comparison - and fills it with an experimental programme where literature, performance art, concerts and the electronic underground meet. .....

Some 380 member organisations and around 1,100 professionals share desks, labs and meeting rooms at BLOXHUB, the Nordic hub for sustainable urbanisation headquartered in the BLOX building on Copenhagen's harbourfront. Founded on 3 June 2016 by the philanthropic association Realdania, the City of Copenhagen and the Danish Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, it is a non-profit member association built on the idea that global urbanisation and climate challenges can only be solved .....

A dusty book depot under Islands Brygge Library was reborn in 2016 as Bryggekaelderen, the neighbourhood's atmospheric underground culture venue. Floor-to-ceiling shelves filled with books and hidden nooks line the concrete walls, giving the cellar what its keepers describe as a mix of living room and bunker - an identity all its own beneath the smallest and arguably cosiest library in Copenhagen. The programming is deliberately open-ended: poetry evenings, concerts, children's events, film scr.....

Copenhagen's Latin American culture house occupies a modest building on Hoffdingsvej in Valby with an unusual back-story: for over two decades it belonged to the Canary Islands association, founded by immigrant workers who arrived in the 1960s. As the members aged and their Spanish government subsidy disappeared in the financial crisis, they handed the house on - in December 2012 the building was transferred for a token 70,000 kroner, and after a few weeks of volunteer renovation, Casa Latinoame.....

Architecture gets treated as public culture, not trade business, at Halmtorvet 27 in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District. The address is the event and exhibition space of Copenhagen Architecture Forum (CAFx), a non-profit founded in 2014 by Josephine Michau that explores how architecture shapes lives and cities through exhibitions, film screenings, debates, talks and city walks - the organisation also runs the Copenhagen Architecture Biennial and grew out of what began as the Copenhagen Architectu.....

Dominating one end of the city central square, Copenhagen City Hall is a grand brick building in the National Romantic style, completed in 1905 and topped by a tall clock tower that ranks among the highest points in the old city. Its imposing facade, decorated with a gilded figure of the city legendary founder, looks out over the bustling Radhuspladsen. The building is the seat of the municipal council and the working town hall of the Danish capital, but much of it is open to visitors, who can .....

Founded in 1859, Copenhagen Zoo is one of the oldest in Europe and has grown from a small collection of birds and farm animals in the Frederiksberg gardens into a leading research and conservation centre that houses thousands of animals on a wooded site on the western edge of the city. The zoo is best known for its Elephant House, designed by the British architect Norman Foster and opened in 2008, where Indian elephants live in spacious paddocks shaded by glass domes that bathe the enclosures i.....