NEW YORK TIMES: ØRESTAD THE DUBAI OF DENMARK

Jul. 28, 2010 | Topic: Creative and entertainment

One of the world's largest newspapers New York Times visited Copenhagen and fell in love with the city. Their travel journalist Seth Sherwood has spent 36 hours in Copenhagen.

Currently, there is a lot of focus on Copenhagen. Not least, the crowning of Noma as the world's best restaurant has really made foreigners look to the Danish capital. Most recently, the New York Times have developed a guide on how to best spend 36 hours in Copenhagen.

And apart from the modern versions of the classic sandwiches “smørrebrød”, high-end restaurants, Charlottenborg and a tour of Our Saviour Church’s tower, the newspaper’s travel journalist fell in love with Ørestad.

- No neighborhood shows off Copenhagen's new sheen and ambition more impressively than Orestad. Five years ago, it was basically a bar flatland on the route to the airport. Today the district is a futuristic, master-planned community of state-of-the-art architecture, writes Seth Sherwood.

In particular, he emphasises Danish Radio's new concert hall, which also previously has received considerable recognition in the same newspaper.

In the guide, he praises the possibility to be transported to a bed by Copenhagen’s 24-hour-open infrastructure several times.

- And when it's time to stagger home, Copenhagen obliges: the futuristic, carries less Metro is now open all day and night, writes Seth Sherwood.