Course 3.316 Copenhagen and the Øresund Region 2004

Information about the Malmø tour 2004:

In Malmø we will look at the Bo01 Housing exhibition area with buildings from 2001 onwards. You can also visit Malmö city centre and the Town Library (addition design by Danish architect Henning Larsen).

Travel informtion:

Trains from Malmø back to Copenhagen is at :04, :24, and :44 minutes past every hour. The trains stops in Kastrup, Ørestad, Copenhagen H, Nørreport and Østerport and continues towards Helsingør. If you go further than the central parts of Copenhagen you need a ticket for a longer distance. On the planned tour you can be back in Copenhagen approx. at 16:00, but it is up to you, if you go home earlier or later.

Ticket information:

Unlike the Public Tranport System inside the Copenhagen Metroplitan Area (HT Hovedstadens Trafikselskab), you cannot make a stop on the way in Ørestad and continue on the same ticket.

So you have to buy one metro ticket from Nørreport to Ørestad (2 zones), and anoter ticket for Ørestad-Malmö-return to Copenhagen city.

Please buy the tickets in advance at a manned railway station (e.g. Østerport, Nørreport, Copenhagen H). In Ørestad there are only a single ticket machine, so it might not be good if we depend on that. If you don't have a return ticket, in Malmø you need to pay with Swedish money. Find some fellow students and buy tickets together to save money - but then you also have to agree, that you return back to Copenhagen together.

Bus in Malmø: Line 15 from Malmö C (south side) towards Västra Hamnen, price 15 SEK= 12,30 DKK

get of at Turning Torso (Bo01 north end) or Propellergatan (Bo01 south end). To go back with take line 15 towards Lindängen and get off at Malmø Central Station (Malmö C, also called Centralen).

Distances in Malmø:

Malmö C - Bo01 Exhibition area approx. 1,5 km; Bo01 - Town Library approx. 1,5 km.; Town Library - Malmö C approx. 1 km.

Malmö Architecture Guide: There is a rather new architectural guide book to Malmö - you can probably borrow it from the library here at the school, if you like. Bo Grönlund have recently written about the Bo01 area in Swedish (with illustrations and links): the text is here http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/BG_Stadsplan_Bo01nov03.doc

Clothing: If there is any risk of rain Saturday - bring clothes for that and maybe an unbrella

Check the wheather here: http://www.dmi.dk/eng/index/forecasts/forecast_for_copenhagen_and_zealand.htm

Food: If you don't bring Swedish cash, you might need to bring something to eat and drink. Credit cards might do, but not necessarily everywhere.

Town Library, Malmö open Saturday 12-16 http://www2.malmo.stadsbibliotek.org/

Malmö Konsthall (art hall) open Saturday 11-17, free admission http://www.konsthall.malmo.se/

Proposed route:

We take the bus from the station to Bo01 - Bo Grönlund pays for all the tickets.

We walk back and pass the library and the 2 central squares in Malmø.

The dotted (hashed) line and the black line between it and Malmø C is the central shopping street in Malmø.

'Art' is Malmö Konsthall (Art hall)