Copenhagen central only yielded a few pseudo-quirky detached (single purpose or unused) medium-sized structures for me to record, but then again I have not walked along every street and entered into every courtyard to find more... yet!
a traditional half-timbered house sitting all out of sorts and sadly neglected in a laneway beside the Design Museum Denmark
a seemingly abandoned brick building on Vesterfaelledvej 56 bordering the Carlsberg city district development site (with the Carlsberg Tower in the background)
a 19th century Russian Orthodox church on Bredgade 53, Saint Alexander Nevsky Church with its three golden onion domes glowing in the setting sun was built by a Danish princess who married Czar Alexander III
not quite a bona fide quirky building but the well-executed trompe l'oeil of a triumphal arch is effectively eye-drawing and painted on a blank wall just outside the meatpacking district
perhaps the most well-known and most photographed elephants in a city where the elephant is the symbol of the kingdom of Denmark, the Elephant Gate/Tower to the Carlsberg brewery compound is a much visited site
the latest addition to the Copenhagen Zoo is the Panda House by the most famous of contemporary Danish architects Bjarke Ingels and his firm BIG, with its circular yin and yang divided enclosure that ensures each pampered giant panda will have his and her own exclusive privacy... until their arranged conjugal visits in a specially merged boudoir🙈
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