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COPENHAGEN CITY HALL
Summary in English
PREFACE
C op enh ag en City Hall
One H und red Years
T h e co lourfu l diversity o f Copenhagen City Hall is the them e for
this kaleidoscopic book. And the occasion: that it will be one hund red
years ago in 2005 th a t the carefully p lanned building came into use
in earnest.
T h e bu ild ing will be p resen ted in colour pho tos as it appea rs and
is u sed in a new century. And a wide variety o f mainly black and
white pho to s , m o s t o f them from the City Hall Archives, will tell o f
festive occasions and o rd inary work th rough the years, covering the
whole range from the stone masons on the scaffolding du ring the
bu ild ing process over notabilities on the balcony or recep tions in
the M a in and B anqueting Halls, with pancakes and the Royal
Table, to get-togethers in the canteen in the vault and pigeon feeding
o f soaring b irds on the City Hall Square.
T h e tex t is mainly new, observing and philosophical, however,
interwoven w ith the experiences or recollections o f old and young
m em be rs o f staff.
Allan de Waal, Lars Gundersen and Asger Uhd Jepsen
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