Copenhagen has been expanding a lot the last few years, but the recession is putting a stop to most of the prestigious projects. By the harbour (most of Cph is by the harbour ) a bank is building an additional house, next to their old domain. And they need cranes to do that. Enter: urbex-boy. 

Almost pointing at the Parliament. City Hall tower to the left. That’s right next to this bull vs. dragon statue

Urbex Crane 'ing' in Copenhagan

The waterfront, just below the smoke in the middle is IO Interactive HQ, where Hitman, the game is made

Copenhagan Waterfront Urbex

I went there two nights. First time alone (I often go by myself), second time with a buddy. Second time someone on the ground or in the nearby apartments called the cops – their national Headquarters were actually just below the crane across the street

Police headquarters, and police parking. Notice the round parking buidling fits into the yard on the HQ

Copenhagan Police HQ Urbex

The cops came and me and my buddy tried to lay low up there for 15 minutes. Because I’d been urbexing almost every night for weeks I was kinda sleep deprived, so I dozed off up there, while waiting for them to leave the scene of the crime.     At a point there were three patrol cars. When they started talking to us on the megaphone we had to fold cards and come down -  only one way in a crane

Here JA-hatten is laying low:

JA-hatten laying low on urbex

We came down, and started the usual procedure of identifying ourselves. Since I have a press card – we gave them the “journalist-and-photographer-making-a-story-on-the-development-of-the-city” story. We had to show the pictures on our cards, they wanted to check if we had taken pictures of the police car park, if we had pictures of the HQ or possible terrorist targets. They also checked our bags for ropes for banners for the upcoming COP15 meeting. While checking the pictures the jumped right past shots like these  :

Urban Exploration on Cranes in Copenhagan

Crane view of Copenhagan

Homeboy JA-hatten

Homeboy JA-hatten on urbex location

JA-hatten, CPH PD HQ in the back

JA-hatten, CPH PD HQ in the back

Absolute top, approx 65meters

Absolute crane top, approx 65meters in Copenhagan

They gave os back our stuff, treated us very polite, said we seemed to be responsible and not troublemakers. They bid us good night and told us they’d call us if the owner wanted to press charges against us.

Last week the policeman in charge called us to say that the crane owner didn’t press charges, since nothing was damaged. The owner had been very interested as to what type of pictures had been taken. And the policeman had given the owner a slap on the wrist for not closing the gates to the site – DK urbex is not bad at all….

City view whilst on crane urbex

Scared of heights?

Thanks to dystop for putting this together – checkout more of his work here!