Tap E is a former storage building of a bottling plant in the
Vesterbro district of
Copenhagen
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,
Denmark
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, part of
Carlsberg Carlsberg may refer to:
Places
* Carlsberg (district), a district in Copenhagen, Denmark
** Carlsberg station, its train station
* Carlsberg, Germany, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
* Carlsberg Fjord, Greenland Other uses
* Carlsbe ...
's historic brewery site which is now known simply as the
Carlsberg area. After the production of beer in the area stopped in 2009, the listed building has been taken unto use as a cultural venue which houses both a centre for modern dance, ''
Dansehallerne'', and
Fotografisk Center, a gallery and digital laboratory dedicated to fine art photography.
The building borders on the
J. C. Jacobsen Garden accessed through a pergola running along the left-hand side of the building.
History
Part of the historic
Carlsberg Brewery
Carlsberg A/S (; ) is a Danish multinational brewer. Founded in 1847 by J. C. Jacobsen, the company's headquarters is in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since Jacobsen's death in 1887, the majority owner of the company has been the Carlsberg Foundation. T ...
site in
Valby
Valby () is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark. It is in the southwestern corner of Copenhagen Municipality, and has a mixture of different types of housing. This includes apartment blocks, terraced housing, area ...
, Tap E was originally built as a mineral water factory in 1922 to the design of the architect
Carl Harild who also designed a number of other buildings in the area for Carlsberg around that time. The plant soon became too small and in 1927 was expanded with three additional floors. In 1962 the architect
Sven Eske Kristensen designed another extension which made it the largest production facility for mineral water in the Nordic countries.
In the 1980s the production of mineral water moved to the
Tuborg
Tuborg is a Danish brewing company founded in 1873 on a harbour in Hellerup, to the north of Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 1970 it has been part of the Carlsberg Group. The brewery's flagship, the Tuborg pilsner, was brewed for the first time in ...
site in
Hellerup
Hellerup () is a very affluent district of Gentofte Municipality in the suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. The most urban part of the district is centred on Strandvejen and is bordered by Østerbro to the south and the Øresund to the east. It compr ...
. The building was instead used for a production line of export beer, giving rise to its current name (E for Export). In the 1990s the production of export beer stopped and was replaced by the production of canned beer in connection with the re-introduction of beer cans in the Danish market.
[
In late 2008, Carlsberg terminated the production of beer at the Valby site, concentrating their production of beer in Denmark at their brewery site in ]Fredericia
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, and it was decided to redevelop the grounds in Valby into a new urban neighbourhood.
The Dansehallerne centre of modern dance opened in the building on 16 August 2009 Later it has been joined by Fotografisk Center, a centre for fine art photography previously located in the ground floor of Kunstforeningen
Kunstforeningen ( English The Art Society), now officially called Gammel Strand after its address, is an exhibition space and non-profit membership organization located at Gammel Strand in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded in 1825 to promote a ...
s building at Gammel Strand
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, which moved into larger premises in the building on 1 February 2011.
Architecture
The building represents the transition from Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative arts, decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiq ...
to Functionalism. Structurally it consists of bearing granite pillars with timber fillings.
References
External links
Dansehallerne
Fotografisk Center
External links
Source
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Carlsberg Group buildings and structures
Brewery buildings in Copenhagen
Carlsberg (district)
Industrial buildings completed in 1927
Industrial buildings in Vesterbro/Kongens Enghave
Listed industrial buildings in Copenhagen
1920s architecture in Denmark