Westend is a street and Art Deco-style housing complex in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen , Denmark. It is accessed through a gateway in the building at Vesterbrogade 65—78 and is closed to car traffic in the other end. Vesterbro was in the 19th century Copenhagen's principal entertainment district. Prostitution was legalized in The police was authorized to refer the public houses to specific streets and Badevej became the principal brothel street in Vesterbro.
The street was in renamed Knudsgade. In , Copenhagen was home to a total of fifty licensed brothels with approximately "public women".
Prostitutes were required to have individual addresses when brothels became illegal in A group of developers purchased a property further out on Vesterbrogade with the intention of creating a private street where prostitutes could operate from individual apartments.
Carl P. Dreyers Vinhandel, a wine shop, was then located on the site. Construction began in but the plans were stopped by the so-called October Act which made prostitution illegal. The Westend complex was designed by the architect Albert Jensen who had previously worked for Ferdinand Meldahl and designed buildings such as the Magasin du Nord department store on Kongens Nytorv. The building is designed in the Art Deco with inspiration from Parisian architecture.
Its most characteristic feature is the elaborate wrought iron balconies. The interior of the gateway at Vesterbrogade 76—67 has since featured changing works of street art as a result of a street art project entitled "Wild at Westend".
