Ny Tap going down

Parts of the old Carlsberg Brewery in Valby, Copenhagen is being torn down to give room for residences, offices, shops and a school. Ny Tap, as the building was called, is slowly being demolished as is a part of the administration.

And down it went...

I did catch this sequence of the demolition of the Valby Gas Silo yesterday, so now the view from my balcony has changed.

Going down

 

This 108 m high landmark of Valby, Copenhagen is going down today with a big bang. At 12 o'clock it will be gone, weather permitting. The gas silo was built in 1965 to replace a gaswork that blew up, though at that time it wasn't intentional. The blast in 1964 killed 4 and wounded 200 in the area of Retortvej, crushing 100.000 windows and making a lot of Copenhageners think that a nuclear bomb had gone off. The silo went out of use in 2007 and even though it has been suggested to convert it into something else, the project to rebuild it was too expensive. So this time it is a demolishion that will be heard when the 50kg of explosives will tomble the silo for the last time. And the view from my balcony will change.

 

Step in

 

Another pic from the demolition of Scala in Copenhagen, taken through this half-open door in the only facade still standing. I'm hoping that its replacement will be graced with better fortune than this one. -CL

Facade

 

At the old Scala building in Copenhagen only one of the facades are left standing, the rest has been demolished and trucked away. It won't be long before construction of the new buildings on the site will begin. Hopefully it will prosper better than Scala did. - CL