The AC Hotel Bella Sky Copenhagen, formerly the Bella Sky Comwell Hotel, is a 4-star conference hotel adjacent to the
Bella Convention and Congress Center in the
Ørestad
Ørestad () is a developing city area in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the island of Amager.
The area was developed using the new town concept, closely linked with the M1 line of the Copenhagen Metro. Economically, income for the plan would be genera ...
district of
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
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Denmark
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. With 814 rooms, it is the largest hotel in
Scandinavia
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. The hotel joined the
AC Hotels
AC Hotels by Marriott is a chain of hotels in Austria, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Portugal, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Jamaica, the United Kingdom, and North America. The brand's amenities include accom ...
division of
Marriott International
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on December 15, 2014.
Architecture
The hotel is designed by
3XN and consists of two towers which reach 76.5 metres up with an inclination of 15° in opposite directions. The height was determined by restrictions due to the proximity of
Copenhagen Airport
Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup ( da, Københavns Lufthavn, Kastrup, ; ) is an international airport serving Copenhagen, Denmark, Zealand, the Øresund Region, and southern Sweden including Scania. It is the second largest airport in the Nordic coun ...
and the tilting design chosen to optimize views.
Ramboll
Rambøll Group A/S (also known as just "Ramboll") is a Danish consulting engineering group.
History
Rambøll was founded in October 1945 as "Rambøll & Hannemann" in Copenhagen. In 1991 the company merged with "B. Højlund Rasmussen A/S" into ...
was consulting engineer on
structures
A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized. Material structures include man-made objects such as buildings and machines and natural objects such as ...
,
sewers and
earthworks
Earthworks may refer to:
Construction
*Earthworks (archaeology), human-made constructions that modify the land contour
* Earthworks (engineering), civil engineering works created by moving or processing quantities of soil
*Earthworks (military), m ...
. All calculations and drawings used by Ramboll on the project were extracted from a
3D model
In 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling is the process of developing a mathematical coordinate-based representation of any surface of an object (inanimate or living) in three dimensions via specialized software by manipulating edges, vertices, an ...
. The calculation programme ROBOT worked together with the design programme
TEKLA
Tekla is a software product family that consists of programs for analysis and design, detailing and project communication. Tekla software is produced by Trimble, the publicly listed US-based technology company.
History
, Tekla Corporation ...
.
Facilities
The hotel has five restaurants, 30 meeting rooms and an 850 sq m wellness area. The 17th floor is specially designed for women, but also welcomes men.
The Bella Sky Bar is situated on the 23rd floor.
Gallery
Image:20141228-MAT 0853.jpg, View from Bella Sky hotel
Image:20141228-MAT 0863-Edit HDR.jpg, View from Bella Sky hotel
Image:20141228-MAT 1406.jpg, Bella Sky in the snow
Image:20141228-MAT 1408.jpg, Bella Sky in the snow
Image:Bella Sky Hotel - lobby.jpg, The lobby
Image:20141229-MAT 1747.jpg, Bella Sky Bar area
Image:20141229-MAT 1748.jpg, Outside the Bella Sky restaurant
See also
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Inclined building
An inclined building is a building that was intentionally built at an incline. Buildings are built with an incline primarily for aesthetics, offering a unique feature to a city's skyline, as well as framing other buildings and structures between t ...
References
{{Copenhagen hotels
Hotels in Copenhagen
Hotels established in 2011
Hotel buildings completed in 2011
3XN buildings
Inclined buildings
Twin towers
Skyscrapers in Denmark
Skyscraper hotels