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It was obvious that the Swedes (or Russians) should not be allowed to get any closer to the city, and though the whole coastline of Amager could not be defended efficiently, Christianshavn could, and its defences were increasingly elaborated for at least two centuries while the place became formally part of the city and the headquarters of the Danish Navy. The south part of Christianshavn (the area not occupied by the Navy - p50) is a wonderful piece of city with a mixture of domestically scaled buildings and warehouses, which vary in splendour from the Asiatisk Kompagni's eighteenth-century Baroque palaces to the huge and styleless Gammel Dok (Old Dock) building, a rugged utilitarian structure in yellow brick under a vast pitched roof of red pantiles. The site stretches 6 kilometres long and 500 metres wide south from Christianshavn in the centre of the city towards the airport, an area that will undoubtedly become of great importance when the bridge over the Oresund between southern Sweden and Amager is completed (the aim is by the turn of the century) and Skane is drawn even more firmly into the orbit of Greater Copenhagen. |
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