It was therefore decided to build a new hospital and a site was selected on the glacis outside the North Rampart of the city's Fortification Ring which was now finally decommissioned.

Very modern for its time, it contained 844 beds and pioneered a number of treatments, techniques and diagnoses in Denmark.

Copenhagen Municipal Hospital also pioneered the first intensive care unit globally in 1953, set up by anaesthetist Bjørn Aage Ibsen.

Christian Hansen's original hospital building consisted of two three-story main wings joined together by two connectors.

[3] In 1954, the complex was expanded by city architect Frederik Christian Lund in a style similar to that of the original buildings.