It was drizzling and there was a slight bluster in the air as I shuffled along the cobblestones of Copenhagen's Latin Quarter one recent October afternoon – your quintessential Danish fall day, with leaden skies and people flitting by under oversize umbrellas.
Then I stepped inside my destination, the city's newest hotel in one of its oldest neighborhoods: 1 Hotel Copenhagen. Instead of rain-slicked streets and ominous clouds, I was suddenly surrounded by a profusion of plants, granite boulders and flickering lanterns as I traipsed up the entry staircase and into the hotel's central atrium.
1 Hotel Copenhagen occupies a heritage-listed building dating to 1928 that was originally a department store designed in the functionalist style by Danish modern architect Vilhelm Lauritzen. Hence the huge, open space with enormous windows to let that famous northern light stream in, and even several mature trees dotting the public areas that made the space feel like a chic greenhouse.
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