page_title: Store Strandstræde 19–21
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Store Strandstræde 19–21 / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Gate at Store Strandstræde 19-21 ub Copenhagen, Denmark
context_page_description: Store Strandstræde 19–21 is a listed mixed-use property from 1908 in Store Strandstræde in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The complex contains commercial space in the two lower floors and large, high-end apartments on the three upper floors and also comprises a workshop building in the courtyard. It is designed in a style which combines Romantic Nationalism with influences from Jugendstil. It is located next to the Garrison Church.
context_section_description: The property consists of two ahjoining buildings (No. 19 and No. 21) fronting the street, four side wings projecting from their rear side and a workshop building attached to the southernmost side wing. The buildings cover three fourth of the lot which was the maximum permitted for residential development in the Old Town under the Building Act of 1899. There are basements under the two courtyards, a common feature of developments from about 1900 in old part of the city.
  The five-storey complex contains commercial space in the two lower floors (including retail space in the ground floor facing the stret), apartments on the three upper floors and a sox-storey workshop building (værkstedsbygning) attached to the southernmost side wing.
  The buildings stand in blank, red brick with imitated sandstone details, a combination known from Christian IV's many Renaissance landmarks and is in Denmark known as Rosenborg Style after Rosenborg Castle.  Gateways, doors and windows on the two lower floors have granite framing. Above each gate is a relief heads.
  The asymmetrical facade is broken up by centered bay flanked by pilaster-like structures and topped by wall dormers. The canted bay at the corner of the building, located closest to the Garrison Church, is tiooed by a characteristic cloper-clad spire.
  The rear side of the building stands in blank brick with dressed ground floor. The workshop building is topped by cantacles.
  The decorative elements of the facade ("sandstone bands", pilasters and figureheads) are of reinforced concrete elements. It is one of the earliest examples of
caption: ]One of the two gates
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