DR Byen

DR Byen ( German as: " DR City ") is a complex of buildings and the headquarters of the Danish State Radio Danmarks Radio (DR ) in the north of the Copenhagen district Ørestad on the island of Amager.

The headquarters of DR is located on Emil Holms channel, which was named after the 1925-1937 active first director. In the complex, all facilities of the Copenhagen DR are housed under one roof. After breaking ground in 2002, the new building could be occupied in July 2006, four years later. All jobs of DR employees were then transferred from the Radiohuset in Frederiksberg and the TV - Byen in Søborg in the DR Byen, which is the most advanced multimedia companies in the world was at its completion. The DR Byen provides space for digitized radio, TV and online productions and made ​​possible by flexible facilities closer cooperation between the formerly separate departments ..

Segments

DR Byen covers 124,000 m² and consists of four transparent segments whose seven -story buildings are connected on the second floor by glass transition bridges.

• In segment 1, various productions of the DR are located. Editorial rooms, large studios, production staff, reception, Studio Lounge, workshops and storage are housed here. The building is the largest segment, with its 51,000 square meters and 385 rooms.
• Segment 2 is amongst other the broadcast center for news and sports programs as well as the radio channel DR P3. In the house 391 rooms spread over 32,000 m². From the local DR Nyheders Nyhedscenter was on 19 November 2006, the first in Denmark usually seen news magazine, the TV broadcast since 1965 Opinions, aired.
• Segment 3 contains DR København, the administrative and internal service areas. With 80 rooms, 17,000 m² of the building is the smallest segment.
• In the fourth segment, the DR Konzerthuset opened in 2009, next to the concert hall about 200 rooms are housed in an area of ​​26,000 m².

Planning and construction

The architectural competition for the entire complex was won by the architect Vilhelm Lauritzen Office A / S, which was also responsible for the predecessor buildings Radiohuset and TV - Byen, during the concert hall was designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel office. Construction accompanied economic problems in which mainly the concert hall from the frame fell. The budget has been exceeded several times and was at the end of over three billion Danish kroner. As a result of budget overruns the Director-General in 2004 was replaced by a new one which initiated immediately austerity measures and more than 300 employees dismissed.