DR Byen | |
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General information | |
Location | Copenhagen |
Address | Emil Holms Kanal 20 0999 Copenhagen C |
Country | Denmark |
Owner | DR |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects |
Civil engineer | COWI, Carl Bro |
DR Byen (Danish pronunciation: [ˈte̝ˀˌɛɐ̯ ˈpyˀən]; lit. 'the DR city') is the headquarters of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DR, located in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the northwestern part of Amager. The first employees moved into DR Byen in 2006 and 2007, but the entire building, including the Koncerthuset Concert Hall, was not completed until 2010.[1] The construction industry's enormous budget overruns have been widely discussed, and were also one of the main reasons of former CEO Kenneth Plummer's announcement on March 13, 2007, that 521 positions would be cut, and that 300 employees would be dismissed. DR Byen replaced Radiohuset in Frederiksberg and TV-Byen in Søborg.