Ørestad

Ørestad on the island of Amager is the youngest district of the Danish capital Copenhagen. It is produced since 1992 by the New Town principle. Ørestad is divided into four parts Ørestad Nord, Amager Fælled Kvarteret, Ørestad City and Ørestad Syd ( from north to south ) and the nature reserve Kalvebod Fælled. The district extends in a north-south direction for about 600 m wide and about 5 km in length (310 hectares). He is in the field of community Copenhagen, close to the border with the municipality Tårnby, which belongs to the Official Copenhagen.

In the northern part, the new Copenhagen Concert Hall (DR Koncerthuset ), built is based on plans by the French architect Jean Nouvel. The concert hall was opened in January 2009. Here you will find the Københavns Universitet Amager, IT Universitetet, and the library of the Faculty for Humanities. Further south, in the district Ørestad City is the Bella Center, the UN Climate Change Conference took place in the 7th to 18th December 2009 in Copenhagen, the Bella Sky Hotel and the Field's shopping center, claims to be the largest in Scandinavia. Created by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels also include three other projects in the area: the VM House, Mountain Dwelling and the 8 House. In Ørestad Syd district is adjacent to a residential district, the new København Arena, created a covered multi-purpose arena for sports and cultural events. In the south, the nature reserve Pinseskoven connects. This also originally designated as a nature reserve Kalvebod Fælled is now half a part of the district.

Until the full completion of Ørestad 20 to 30 years will pass, are planned apartments for 20,000 inhabitants. The same number of people will visit to study or training Ørestad. Overall, the district is to provide 60,000 jobs.

For the development of the district the Ørestadsselskab ( Ørestad Society) was founded on 11 March 1993, the main task is to build the infrastructure. To this end, they sold the estate to investors to fund the proceeds to build the infrastructure. The company is fully owned by the public sector (55% municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark 45% state ). The cost of building the infrastructure amount to DKK 1.3 billion ( approximately 175 million euros ).

An important feature of urban development of Ørestad is the fact that for the first time in Denmark was the transport infrastructure before building construction, because Ørestad is closely associated with the construction of the metro. It connects the Ørestad station to the center of Copenhagen within the district. The railway station in the south of the district is part of the Øresundstrecke. The railway line runs parallel to the European Route 20 both provide easy access across the Sound to Sweden as well as the center of Copenhagen with the Airport - Kastrup.