In 1870, J. C. Jacobsen's Carlsberg Brewery was extended with an annexed brewery, which was leased by J. C. Jacobsen's son Carl Jacobsen after disagreements with his father. In 1880 J. C. Jacobsen terminated his son's lease and Carl founded his own brewery on a neighbouring premises. With his father's consent he named it Ny Carlsberg, while Carlsberg's name was changed to Gammel Carlsberg. The oldest of the two buildings in which the hotel is now based is from 1881. It was used both as brewhouse, machine house and malt storage. The tower at the corner with Pasteursvej was a watertower. The adjacent part of the building contained residences for unmarried brewery workers. Living at the brewery enabled them to serve as fire guards. A new Ny Carlsberg Brewhouse was in 1901 completed on the other side of By Carlsbergvej. The newer of the two buildings in which the hotel is based is known as Stoage Celler 3. It was constructed in 1969. The building replaced an older building at the site. It had room for 6 million litres of beer. The tanks were removed in 1995 and the building was then used as archives and storage space.
Architecture
The old part of the building is constructed in red brick with arched windows, A Lomvard band is seen under the roof. The tower is topped by a tall roof lantern crowned by a copy of the Ancient Greek statuePraying Boy. Storage Cellar 3 was designed by Svenn Eske Kristensen. The facade towards Pasteursvej is dominated by60 golden mosaic discs in 5 rows, representing the horizontally placed, culindrical tanks with the same diameter that were originally located on the other side of the wall. The buildings were adapted for their new use as hotel by Poul Schülein from Arkitema Architects in collaboration with professor Christoffer Harlang from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The challenge of letting daylight into Storage Cellar 3 towards Pasteursvej was solved by creating tall, narrow windows on each side of the discks. On the other side of the building, towards Bryggernes Torw, each of the discks were complemented by shallow, round niches in the brickwork. These have been replaced by round windows.
Busts
The groundfloor of the building features a number of busts on its facade. The people seen on the facade of the old building include Louis Pasteur, Gabriel Sedlmayr and Emil Christian Hansen, The bust on the facade of Storage Cellar 3 depicts a number of members of the Jacobsen family, including I. C. Jacobsen, Carl Jacobsen and Ottilia Jacobsen. They were originally located on the building that was demolished in 1969 but transferred to its the new one.
