page_title: Havnegade
section_title: Buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Havnegade / Buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: The former head office of Nordisk Frøkontor at Javnegade 39 in Copenhagen, Denmark)
context_page_description: Havnegade is a waterfront promenade in central Copenhagen, Denmark, which runs between Knippelsbro and the mouth of the Nyhavn canal. Most of the street is lined with buildings from the 1860s and 1870s that were constructed as part of the redevelopment of the Gammelholm navel dockyards. It is the only place along Copenhagen's main harbourfront where residential buildings of that age face the water, although older warehouses and other industrial buildings elsewhere have been converted into residential use. The Modernist Bank of Denmark building is located at the western end of the street.
context_section_description: The free-standing, oval building on the quay (No. 44), nicknamed the pencil case due to irs shape, is a former custom house and ferry terminal. The building was designed by Kristoffer Varming in the Functionalist style and is from 1937. It has now been converted into a jazz club and restaunt complex called The Standard.
  The first part of the street (No. 5) passes Bank of Denmark. The Modernist building was designed by Arne Jacobsen as a replacement for the National Bank's old building in Holmens Kanal
  No. 23 is the former Navigation School designed by Ferdinand Meldahl and built from 1863-65.
  The Levin House (No. 29) was designed by Johan Daniel Herholdt for a grocer named Levin and built from 1865 to 1866. The building served as headquarters for Danish Distillers between 1926 and 1968.
  No. 37, which now houses Hotel Copenhagen Strand, was built in 1870. No. 39 was built in 1869 and later came to serve as headquarters for Nordisk Frøkontor ("Nordic Seed Office"), a company founded in 1879, whose name is still seen on the façade. A passageway next to the building opens to a yard and a former warehouse on its rear. The building has now been converted into serviced offices.
  The last building in the street, on the corner with Nyhavn, is called The Navigators' House (Navigatørernes Hus, No. 55). Its rounded corner is topped by a dome designed in the style of a Diving bell and the façade is decorated with Caryatids.
caption: No. 39: Nordisk Frøkontor Building
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