Tivoli Hjørnet (Tivoli Corner)

Tivoli A/S, the client, commissioned Pei Cobb Freed & Partners to design a building for the western edge of the Tivoli Gardens. Opened in 2017, it links Tivoli's nineteenth-century entrance pavilions with Hotel Nimb and, for the first time, gives the city and the park a true transition. It was conceived as a counterpoint to Arne Jacobsen's SAS hotel nearby.

In 2018 Tivoli Hjørnet received the American Architecture Award and the International Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum; in 2020 the American Institute of Architects gave it a National Honor Award.

Ian Bader, a partner of the firm, was lead designer. The key idea comes from the ramparts and moat that once enclosed the historic city, whose line is still traced in the layout of the gardens: just as those walls marked the boundary of the city, the building forms a new edge for the garden. At most 105 m long, 18 m wide on average and 17 m high, it keeps a modest scale, in step with the entrance pavilion and the neighbouring Hotel Nimb; it has 8,500 m2 of floor area.

On the street side the building cantilevers outward. Its undulating glass wall catches the shifts of light while giving shade and insulation: it is a climate wall of externally ventilated low-iron glass, in large panels on two levels, fitted with 300 computer-controlled vertical textile shades. On the garden side, shingled terracotta tiles, recalling Copenhagen's warm-hued clay masonry and its timber shipbuilding past, clad curving, stepped terraces planted in 280 boxes. The terraces, with private gardens for hotel guests, lead up to a landscaped roof that looks out over the park and the city.

A food hall, restaurants and shops; an extension of Hotel Nimb, with a rooftop pool and a gym.

The food hall, at the corner of Bernstorffsgade and Vesterbrogade near the central station, opens onto the street with free entry and connects directly with the Tivoli garden. On the garden side, terracotta terraces on several levels are used for dining with a view of the park.