Winding Chimney

The Winding Chimney (Danish: Den Snoede Skorsten) is a 56 m tall disused Carlsberg chimney, now serving as a landmark in the Carlsberg neighbourhood of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Passionately interested in the arts, Carl Jacobsen, who had founded his New Carlsberg Brewery a decade prior, taking up competition with his father, wanted to show that a chimney for an industrial plant could be beautiful.

He made his own rough sketches and brought in architect Vilhelm Dahlerup and master builder PS Beckmann.

[2] Built in red brick and granite, the chimney turns around its own axis and stands on an octagonal plinth.

The Chimeras (Gargoyles) are replicas of those on Notre-Dame de Paris while the upper part of the chimney is decorated with motifs of Egyptian lotus flowers.