Copenhagen

Swedish Gustaf's Church, Copenhagen

Basically the Øresund in built form foreshadowing the century of friendship that followed, the monarchs of both Sweden and Denmark dedicated Svenska Gustafskyrkan when it opened in 1911.

Glyptoteket, Copenhagen

A beloved Venetian-inspired art palace in Copenhagen built by the Danish public sector to house the donated art collection of a brewery oligarch, located on a road widened during the car-brained 1950s.

Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen

The culmination of a project to turn sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen into a national icon for the emerging Danish nation-state–Thorvaldsen as a sort of Danish demigod with this museum-tomb as his pantheon–this is a distinctive example of national mythmaking, architectural innovation, & adaptive reuse.

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