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A Copenhagen park is helping make car infrastructure more human-centric

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Danish architecture practice Cobe designed Opera Park, a public space adjacent to the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen. - Francisco Tirado
At the street level, the green space accommodates leisure and recreation while also providing parking for 300 cars in an underground parking garage below its surface. - Francisco Tirado
With over 223 exotic and local species, there are 600 trees, 80,000 perennials and bushes and 40,000 bulb plants from all over the world, the variety of plant life helps bring biodiversity through different bird and insect species - Francisco Tirado

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Architect, Landscape Architect
Client
The Opera Park Foundation
Floor Area
21,500 sq-m

At street level, Opera Park is a public garden that seeks to introduce more usable green space to Copenhagen’s city centre. But it conceals a 300-car parking garage beneath its surface.

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