Sometimes, good planning in a city is simply about leaving space for people.

This is the square at the end of the Inner Harbour Bridge that crosses the harbour between Nyhavn and Christianshavn.

Through the year this has been the Broens Gadekøkken / The Bridge Street Kitchen for street food but over the Christmas period it has been transformed for one of the seasonal ice rinks in the city.

Formally, this is Grønlandske Handels Plads …. the wharf that was at the centre of trade between Copenhagen and the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland from the middle of the 18th century … after the land was sold to Det almindelige Handelsselskab / The General Trading Company - who obtained a monopoly for trade with Greenland so these wharves and warehouse were packed with furs, fish and whale oil.

The large brick warehouse was built in the 1760s and is now known as Nordatlantens Brygge or North Atlantic House and is a cultural centre with gallery space and conference facilities.

Ice Skating at Broen will continue through to 23 February