Symbion Fuglebakken has changed its name to Symbion Frederiksberg. You can read more about Symbion Frederiksberg here.
The location is located on Ndr. Fasanvej and will form the framework for an ambitious growth center for startups working with life science and greentech.
On the corner of Nordre Fasanvej and Hillerødgade is the iconic building - designed by Arne Jacobsen.Today, some 80 years later, the building is still modern in its basic concept and has undergone a thorough modernization that brings it up to today's standards.With its location on the edge of inner Copenhagen, between Frederiksberg and Nørrebro, the location is easily accessible by all forms of transport. There is close access to the S-train, Metro and bus, as well as access roads and the inner city are within a short distance.
Category: Labs, offices and coworkingTotal area: 13,500 m2Lab: 2,300 m2Office: 11,200 m2Coworking area: 500 m2Canteen & lounge area: 500 m2Opened: early 2024
The Fasanvej location is located in the white, functionalist facilities that previously housed Novo. In 2007, Frederiksberg Municipality, with the assistance of the Danish Cultural Heritage Agency, carried out a demarcation and mapping of Novo's facility at Fuglebakken and designated it as one of 25 national industrial monuments. The reasoning was that it illustrates the Danish industrial history in the period 1840-1970 and is a representative of the very knowledge-intensive industry. It was also designated a national industrial monument because it tells the story of a Danish company that very quickly gained a leading position in the world market and because it is a functionalist building designed by Arne Jacobsen.
In 1925, brothers Harald and Thorvald Pedersen founded Novo Therapeutic Laboratory and in 1932 moved into an older dairy building from 1914 on Fuglebakken. At the same time, the then young architect Arne Jacobsen was commissioned to build a new factory in the extension of the old dairy's half-timbered building, and Arne Jacobsen served as the building architect for Novo until his death in 1971 - among other things, he designed the three-legged Myre chair for Novo's canteen on Fuglebakken in 1952. Until 2019, Novo produced enzymes in the white houses on Fuglebakken on the border between Nørrebro and Frederiksberg.
The Fasanvej site consists of a complex of several connected buildings at the corner of Nordre Fasanvej and Hillerødgade. The buildings are placed with an atrium in the middle, which ties the buildings together into one environment.
In 1913-1914 the first building - the dairy - was constructed with a stable building. Later, two timber-framed extensions were built perpendicular to the gables on either side of the dairy. In 1934-1935 it was decided to build on the open space at the corner of Nordre Fasanvej and the then Fuglebakkevej. The task was given to architect Arne Jacobsen, who designed a functionalist building to form a link between the new building and the old dairy building. Between 1948 and 1949, Arne Jacobsen designed a six-storey building, which was built in 1949-1951 behind the white factory building facing Hillerødgade, and an extension to this, an intermediate building, to link two of the existing buildings.
The various buildings together form an architecturally varied picture that clearly tells the story of the industrial development of Fuglebakken. The many knots testify to a practical approach to building development.
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