Aarhus City Tower (formerly HL Huset) is a building on Værkmestergade in
Aarhus
Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...
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and it is one of the tallest buildings in both the city and Denmark at large. At 94 meters it is the second tallest building in Aarhus after
Aarhus Cathedral and, as of 2016, it is the fourth tallest building in Denmark. Aarhus City Tower is used as a Comwell hotel, offices and for conferences. Aarhus City Tower was built by the Danish businessman Hans Lorenzen through the contractor KPC with
Rambøll
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 ...
as the engineer and
Arkitema
Arkitema Architects is a Danish architectural firm headquartered in Aarhus, with branch offices in Copenhagen, Malmö, Stockholm and Oslo. Arkitema Architects was founded in 1969 in Aarhus, and nowadays has about 400 employees with its main activi ...
as the architect. The building is 25.000m² spread across 25 floors with an additional 13.000m² subterranean parking garage. It is the tallest building constructed in Aarhus since the 1930s when the cathedral got its 96 meter tall spire. The other floors has been rented by
Bech-Bruun,
Deloitte
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (), commonly referred to as Deloitte, is an international professional services network headquartered in London, England. Deloitte is the largest professional services network by revenue and number of profession ...
and the Danish hotel chain Comwell. The Comwell hotel has 240 rooms and conference facilities for 1000 people.
Architecture
Construction was completed in the summer of 2014. It is shaped as two towers connected by a transparent, glass covered space. The north tower is shifted relative to the south tower and is one floor taller. The project was financed by the businessman Hans Lorenzen who invested 600 million
Danish krone in it and has taken the top floor of the north tower as his personal home.
Gallery
File:Aarhus City Tower 02.JPG,
File:Aarhus City Tower.jpg,
File:AarhusCityTowerS cropped.JPG,
File:CentralværkstedetSV.JPG,
File:Comwell 3.jpg,
File:Comwell, Aarhus.JPG,
File:Aarhus, Comwell Hotel, 2014.JPG
See also
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Architecture of Aarhus
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List of tallest buildings in Denmark
References
External links
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Buildings and structures in Aarhus
Buildings and structures completed in 2014
Hotels in Aarhus