It was also C.F. Hansen’s task to build a new grammar school and thus help to fashion the buildings surrounding his own cathedral.
C.F. Hansen achieves a fine balance between the Metropolitan School and the Cathedral by also here flanking the long, horizontal façade with two vertically stressed end sections. The interplay between the buildings is also underlined by the sharply defined embrasures which regularly break through the walls.
The corner towards Fiolstræde was to have been oblique according to the city building regulations, but C.F. Hansen, who believed this would weaken the architecture, gained a dispensation from this. The situation was different with Trøstens Bolig on the adjacent corner, which did not have the same official character.
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