Bulbous steel tanks hang from where carcasses used to be suspended at the ÅBEN brewery in Copenhagen, which local studio Pihlmann Architects transformed from a slaughterhouse into a a restaurant and bar.
Located in Copenhagen’s Meatpacking District, the brewery is housed in a 1932 butchery that has been used for various commercial activities since the early 1990s.
Visitors enter ÅBEN through the building’s original blue-rimmed doors
Pihlmann Architects maintained and restored many of the slaughterhouse’s original features as part of the renovation for Danish beer company ÅBEN.
“Turning the space back into a food production facility, with all the pragmatic measures we had to keep in mind, generated our ideas
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