Aarhus Docklands (Danish: Aarhus Ø) is a new neighbourhood and construction site 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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. Construction of Aarhus Docklands began in 2008 and most buildings and constructions have been finished as of 2018. The project will convert the former

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, Nordhavn in the

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, to a new residential, educational, commercial and recreational area, consisting of high rise buildings of modern architectural designs, seaside promenades and a network of canals. Fully developed, the Docklands neighbourhood is intended to sustain 10-12,000 residents and 10,000 jobs in an area equalling the size of

Trøjborg Trøjborg is a neighborhood in the city of Aarhus, Denmark in Skt. Johannes parish with about 11,000 residents as of 2015. The neighborhood is part of the district Aarhus N and borders the neighborhoods Nørre Stenbro to the South West, Risskov to ...

, an adjacent neighbourhood. Aarhus Docklands offers a view of the

Aarhus Bay The Bay of Aarhus, or Aarhus Bay, is a Danish waterway by Aarhus in eastern Jutland. The Bay of Aarhus is bounded by Kalø Vig in the north, Sletterhage and Helgenæs in the east, Samsø and Tunø to the south and the east Jutland coast to the w ...

and there is just a short distance to the

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. Aarhus Docklands is part of the larger Peri-urban Harbour-areas (''De Bynære Havnearealer'') comprising nearly all of the old harbour district along the coastline. It is among the largest harbourfront development projects in Europe.

Projects

The projects at Aarhus Docklands includes several notable architectural designs: *

Isbjerget Isbjerget ( Lit.: The Iceberg) is a residential building in the Aarhus Docklands neighborhood in Aarhus, Denmark. It is situated on the waterfront on ''Mariane Thomsens Gade'' and was finished in 2013 after three years of development. The buildin ...

(The Iceberg), by

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and CEBRA won the 2013

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property development Awards. * Z house, by

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. * Grundfos Kollegiet, a

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financed by the Danish company of

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. *

Navitas Park Navitas (or Navitas Park) is a building in the city of Aarhus, Denmark, located in the Docklands neighborhood in the Midtbyen district. Navitas is owned by the research park INCUBA Science Park, the Aarhus University School of Engineering and t ...

, a research centre of energy technology. Part of

INCUBA Science Park INCUBA Science Park is a research park in Aarhus, Denmark with four departments in Skejby, Katrinebjerg, Aarhus University and Aarhus Docklands. INCUBA was created as a merger of three former research institutions in 2007, and is an amalgamati ...

, with education, engineering, innovation and entrepreneurship. Finished.

Light House (Aarhus)

The Lighthouse (or Lighthouse*), is a residential project under construction in Aarhus Docklands, the new harbour front district of

. The project was originally divided in 2 phases, but due to financial problems, the first phase was sub-divided in 2 stages. Both these initial stages are completed, with stage 2 finished in 2014.

Construction and change of plans

The original phase 2 of the Light House project, included a 142 m tall tower. Located at the edge of the harbour front, overlooking the

, it would have been the tallest building in Denmark and a landmark for the city of Aarhus. It was supposed to comprise more apartments, offices, a hotel and restaurant and underground parking lots. In addition to the original financial problems, it was discovered during the construction of phase 1 in 2008, that the construction ground was not stable enough to support a tower of that size. A countrywide

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showed that the building site was in fact one of the most unstable in Denmark. In December 2013, the investment company of Havneinvest A/S decided not to use the buy- and construct-option for the tower site. The option prize was DKK 270 mill (originally DKK 417 million), but after four years of thorough investigations for DKK 9 million, the investor concluded that the project could not be realized. The investigations revealed among several issues, that the wind conditions could not allow for balconies at the tower. The

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company has also abandoned the project, because they found the hotel capacity in Aarhus large enough for the market. The construction price for the tower has been estimated at DKK 1.5 billion and now

Aarhus Municipality Aarhus Municipality ( da, Aarhus Kommune), known as Århus Municipality ( da, Århus Kommune) until 2011, is a municipality in Central Denmark Region, on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality covers an area ...

is considering other investors and a rethinking of the original tower project altogether.

Return of the tower

On the 13th of March 2018, a modified version of the tower was publicly reinstated into the Lighthouse plan. The 45 storey, 142 meter tall building is expected to be finished in 2022.

Gallery

Lighthouse (promenade nord).jpg, The long coastal promenade at Light House. Isbjerget 2 2014-09-23.jpg, Isbjerget Aarhus Ø (ungdomsboligerne).jpg, Four youth accommodation blocks in a building cluster. Navitas Park 01.JPG, Navitas Park Aarhus docklands by night.jpg, Aarhus Docklands by night. Aarhus Lystbådehavn.jpg, The yacht harbour Kayakker (Aarhus Ø).jpg, Watersports Aarhus Ø (Kanalerne).jpg, New canals are an important aspect of the city quarter. Aarhus Ø (Havneholmen).jpg, Construction in 2018

References

Sources

The Aarhus Docklands
The Development Secretariat for the Aarhus Docklands
Aarhus kommune
* De Bynære Havnearealer, Center for Byudvikling og Mobilitet (17 September 2014)
Lighthouse*: Ikonbyggeri på kanten af Aarhus
Aarhus Kommune.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Aarhus Docklands Port of Aarhus Redeveloped ports and waterfronts in Denmark De Bynære Havnearealer Neighborhoods of Aarhus Aarhus C