Like almost all major new buildings in Copenhagen of the last decade, Bella Sky Hotel was built on the territory of Ørestad - a new district of the Danish capital, located between the airport and the historical center, with which it is connected by a metro line. Erestad is developing according to a single master plan and is one of the most successful large-scale urban development projects in Europe. Among the authors of individual buildings were Jean Nouvel, BIG bureau, Nobel arkitekter, Dissing + Weitling and many others. 3XN, by the way, are not newcomers here either: in 2007, the Estada gymnasium was built according to the project of this bureau.
Bella Sky Hotel is part of the multifunctional Bella Convention and Congress Center, which claims to be the most modern and largest business center in Denmark. All the most significant international conferences and symposia are held here, so a spacious hotel was needed by the complex like air. It was just as necessary to give it a symbolic form, emphasizing the scale and uniqueness of both the congress center and Erestad as a whole. At the same time, the architects were limited in the height of the future structure: due to the proximity to the airport, the hotel was supposed to have no more than 23 floors (75 meters). This is how the idea arose to "increase" the vertical lines of the hotel buildings in breadth, and the proximity of the airfield made the architects give the buildings a distinct resemblance to wings. The buildings are interpreted as two diamond-shaped plates oriented in different directions and deviated from each other by 15 degrees. Thanks to this solution, the complex acquires a very dynamic silhouette, and the Copenhagen panoramas - a memorable landmark. The building is also very noticeable because its facades are snow-white surfaces, dotted with narrow triangles of windows, from which, like in a kaleidoscope, various patterns are formed. The buildings are interconnected by thin galleries-passages at the level of the first and last floors.
In total, the hotel has 814 rooms and 30 conference rooms of different sizes. Sloping windows give each of the rooms individuality, and the shape and slope of the buildings provide them with the best view characteristics: almost every room offers a view of the center of Copenhagen or the Amager Forest, on the border with which Erestad is built. The design of public areas and rooms (the authors of the design project were also made by 3XN) is dominated by white, complemented by natural wood, so characteristic of Scandinavian design, and laconic furniture. The interior of the main hall is also decorated with a "light sculpture" - a chandelier made of many thin glowing tubes - and a lot of greenery: a vertical garden on the reception desk and walls, plants in all kinds of pots and tubs.
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