North Atlantic House
North Atlantens Brygge is a former storage in the port area of Christianshavn in Copenhagen. Since 2003, the building houses under the name of North Atlantens Brygge a cultural center, which focuses on contemporary art and culture from the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland. Within a year, exhibitions, concerts, panel discussions, seminars and other events are organized there. Furthermore, housed the diplomatic missions of the three countries of the West Nordic Council in memory, that is, the Icelandic embassy and the offices of Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Likewise, many companies and organizations with respect to the North Atlantic and the Arctic in the building are located.
The ground floor also is the excellent Michelin star restaurant Noma, which was from 2010 to 2012 elected three times in a row as the "Best Restaurant in the World ".
History
The place where the house is located, the Grønlandske trade Plads, is located to the adjacent Krøyer Plads on the island Bjørnsholm, which was created in the 18th century. The place was for more than 200 years the center of the Danish trade with the Faroe Islands, Finnmark, Iceland and Greenland on which in large quantities with whale and seal oil but also with stockfish, eiderdown, reindeer horn, salted lamb and cod, wool and knitting wool was traded. The square of the trading company Det 1747 was taken over Almindelige Handelskompagni which conducted trade with these countries. 1766-67 built the company of a design by Johan Christian Conradi a 6700 m² large memory initially Islandske Pakhus ( Icelandic memory) and later Det Grønlandske Pakhus ( The Greenlandic memory ) called. 1774 the site was acquired by the Company the Kongelige Grønlandske trade and early 1980s by the Danish customs and tax authority Told & Skat.
On the initiative of the former director of the Danish Polar Centre ( Dansk Polar Center ), Morten Melgaard, and the former director of the customs and tax authorities, Kaj Elkrog, 1997, the Committee for the Development of the North Atlantic Quays ( Komitéen til Udviklingen af the Nordatlantiske Brygge ) was founded - together with the former Icelandic President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir. The committee coordinated representatives from Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Denmark, the design of the building - in coordination with the countries whose governments, København Kommune and a variety of clubs, museums, universities and other institutions. In 2000, the committee was replaced by the Foundation Nordatlantiske Brygge, the Directorate and the Board of the Cultural Centre operates today. Finnbogadóttir organized as a foundation chairman necessary for the repair and installation costs of 125 million Danish kroner, of which 45 million came from the Danish government, 20 million from the AP Møller fund and 60 million from Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. After the renovation of the store Northern Atlantens Brygge was finally opened in November 2003.