Lyngaard & Tranberg has developed the overall plan for the new neighbourhood as well as Postbyen’s building design and architecture.

The ambition has been to transform this previously closed-off area in Copenhagen into an open, attractive neighbourhood of international standards, sought after by both Danish and international companies, residents, Copenhageners, and tourists. The focus is on bringing the surrounding city into Postbyen to create a welcoming and fully integrated neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Thus, the new neighbourhood’s building structure is developed with a gravity and infrastructure to make the area naturally merge with the older inner city.

Continuing the city’s axes and main roads into the heart of the new neighbourhood connects the existing city with the new neighbourhood. The two axes running up Stoltenbergsgade and Hambrosgade are, thus, continued in between Danske Bank’s new headquarters as broad staircases, ending in an elevated urban space. This ties Postbyen together with a view of the railway terrain, on which a new promenade will connect the Central Station and Tietgensbroen to Carsten Niebuhrs Gade and the waterfront by Kalvebod Brygge.

Postbyen is established as a new, lush, and green neighbourhood – an oasis with an open and attractive environment, beginning with its place and its particular location on the edge of the railway terrain.

The circular towers at various heights placed by the railway terrain will become a new landmark and mark the entrance to Copenhagen from the southwest. The intention is to create buildings and a neighbourhood reaching into the future and providing a Copenhagen-style interpretation of modern housing and office buildings in connection with long-lasting urban development. This is through high architectural quality, condensation and subversion of the scale, as well as through sustaining the living city with squares and urban spaces to ensure a lively, open, and attractive urban environment.

Postbyen is a new, modern contribution to the Copenhagen skyline and the city’s towers.