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 ICES HEADQUARTERS OF OLD ICES first office was located at Østbanegade 1 in Copenhagen. It consisted of five rooms on the ground floor of a building opposite Østerport Station.

By the end of 1908, the ICES Secretariat moved to Jens Kofods Gade 2 in central Copenhagen, close to Nyboder.

ICES had one apartment in the building on the ground floor. It remained in Jens Kofods Gade until 1924 when, together with the Danish Fisheries Commission, the headquarters moved to Strandvejen 34 near the Tuborg

H. C. Andersens Boulevard 44-46 • DK 1553 Copenhagen V • Denmark Tel: +45 3338 6700 • Fax: +45 3393 4215 Charlottenlund Castle

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brewery. The house was known as Villa Eltham, but has since been demolished. Annual meetings of ICES Council were held at the villa from 1924 to 1936.

In October 1936, the secretariat moved to Chalottenlund Castle, former residence of the then Crown Prince of Denmark (later King Frederick VIII). The space was shared with the Danish Institute for Fisheries and Marine Research (now DTU Aqua).

In 1980, the secretariat moved back to central Copenhagen with offices at Palægade 2-4 near Kongens Nytorv, where it remained until 2004 and its move to the present location.

THE HISTORY OF ICES HEADQUARTERS

 CURRENT ICES HEADQUARTERS

 OVE SKOU SHIPPING COMPANY

HC Andersens Blvd. 44-46

In 1929, Ove Skou founded the Hovestadens Kulimport

HC Andersens Boulevard was originally named Vestre

coal importing company. And with a capital of DKK

Boulevard but changed in 1955 to commemorate the

100,000, he later founded his shipping company in 1935.

 HISTORY OF THE BOULEVARD

150th birthday of author Hans Christian Andersen.

By 1970, Ove Skou Shipping Company had greatly In 1903, the owners of title No. 285 in the Land Register

expanded with about 800 employees on their ships and

(master painter Severin O. Nielsen and architect J.L.

about 100 employees based at its offices.

Larsen) sought permission to construct a five-storey residential building with a basement. The property was

Ove Skou died in 1974. At that time, the shipping company

finished in 1904 and like many other official buildings in

was Denmark’s third largest, with 26 ships all painted with

the area it was constructed in a neo-classical style.

a distinctive white livery. The era of the Ove Skou group

A 1920s directory

Old signs and logos from Skou’s

listing residents of

company are still evident

the building

throughout the building.

Picture caption?

Copenhagen’s elite called it their home and actors from

may be over but it is remembered as the shipper with

The image from 1897 shows the Carlsberg art museum,

the Royal Theatre, merchants, architects and doctors

the most attractive fleet – the white swans – due to the

the Glyptotek, built on newly reclaimed land following

were among the residents.

distinctive freighters.

the levelling of the ramparts and the expansion of the medieval city. The area had previously been marshlands

In 1949, shipping magnate Ove Skou bought the property

and mainly occupied by timber merchants. In 1871, the

and in 1953, the building became the headquarters of the

construction of a boulevard was approved, the marsh

Ove Skou shipping company. Many remnants of that time

filled in and the land reclaimed. The project took 30 years

remain in the building today including porthole doors and

to complete and a new neighbourhood gradually emerged.

glass etchings.

Copenhagen residents were

In 1996, trade union federation HK took over the building and remained here until 2002.

In 2004, property investors Jeudan bought the building for DKK 42 million and later that year ICES moved in to its current headquarters.

Old signs and

initially reluctant to move here

logos from

and many buildings are still

Skou’s company

occupied by official institutions

are still evident throughout the building.

such as the police headquarters and Royal Academy.