The steady success of Aalborg University began turning coal to culture in the early noughties. Today, the city’s aspirations are conspicuous in its former power plant, Nord Kraft, where sports, leisure and the arts now have a hub.
That evening I watched musician Carl Emil Petersen belt out some Danish Americana in Skråen, the building’s live music venue. Good fun. And, for a gig-going Brit, rather novel: no bouncers, miserable staff or terrible lager.
On the tour, meanwhile, I see uni lectures in session and folks scaling a 20m-high climbing wall. Up on the 13th floor are the best views of Aalborg’s diminutive old town. In the other direction, the legacy of its heavy industry drowns the city in a cement and steel palette that matches the office-grey skies above. Coventry meets Plymouth.
Most imposing is the still-spewing concrete plant, which, from this distance, evokes Lowry’s oeuvre. What’s different, though, is just how immaculate the place is: streets, walls and water all have an air of care about them. Indeed, the last of these is clean enough to swim in.
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Publish date : 2023-10-09 03:00:00
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