![Restaurant Väkst / Genbyg - Table, Chair, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/576b/f354/e58e/cecc/4100/01a1/newsletter/ChrisTonnesen_9967(ny)-2.jpg?1466692396)
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Architects: Genbyg
- Year: 2016
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Photographs:Chris Tonnesen
![Restaurant Väkst / Genbyg - Table, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/576b/f2d5/e58e/ce92/1100/008a/newsletter/ChrisTonnesen_0003(NY).jpg?1466692273)
Text description provided by the architects. The overall vision was to create a space with a design that surrounds the Nordic kitchen to the dual atmosphere of city and garden - urban gardening. The idea was to create a vivid and organic space, as a garden party.
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The heart of the restaurant is a large greenhouse, built through the two floors of the space, thereby transporting the guest into the sensation of a lush garden. The vision was to create a particular ambience, reminding you that you are seated right in the middle of the underground of old Copenhagen - just like plants live partly underground, so does the restaurant.
![Restaurant Väkst / Genbyg - Shelving](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/576b/f3de/e58e/ce92/1100/0092/newsletter/ChrisTonnesen_9987(ny).jpg?1466692545)
The restaurant is built on principles of environmental sustainability.
Using recycled materials not only has a positive environmental impact by reducing waste, it also offered the designers and architects unique and historical materials that adds on to the authenticity.
![Restaurant Väkst / Genbyg - Brick](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/576b/f282/e58e/ce92/1100/0086/newsletter/boards.jpg?1466692218)
Here is a list of the things we have (re)used :
⁃ The shelves in the bar is made of file drawers from the National Bank 's archive.
⁃ All mahogany fillets are made out of the old grandstand from a stadium (Lyngby Stadion).
⁃ Glass shelves comes from Denmark's first P - house, garages Palace in Copenhagen from 1934.
⁃ Auditorium chairs in the characteristic style of 50'erne- 60s in teakwood from an old High School.
⁃ Old Swedish fruit boxes
⁃ the bar is made of old Swedish Scaffolding planks.
⁃ The floor of the basement is made of old floorboards from an old factory
⁃ Cabinet fronts in the bar is made of old floorboards.
⁃ The lamps are made of old zinc milk cans.
⁃ The Sails in the basement is made of old tablecloths.
![Restaurant Väkst / Genbyg - Table, Chair, Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/576b/f462/e58e/cecc/4100/01a9/medium_jpg/ChrisTonnesen_9989(ny).jpg?1466692665)