Part of the historic
Carlsberg Brewery site in
Valby, Tap E was originally built as a mineral water factory in 1922 to the design of the architect
Carl Harild who also designed a number of other buildings in the area for Carlsberg around that time. The plant soon became too small and in 1927 was expanded with three additional floors. In 1962 the architect
Sven Eske Kristensen designed another extension which made it the largest production facility for mineral water in the Nordic countries. In the 1980s the production of mineral water moved to the
Tuborg site in
Hellerup. The building was instead used for a production line of export beer, giving rise to its current name (E for Export). In the 1990s the production of export beer stopped and was replaced by the production of canned beer in connection with the re-introduction of beer cans in the Danish market. Later it has been joined by
Fotografisk Center, a centre for fine art photography previously located in the ground floor of
Kunstforeningens building at
Gammel Strand, which moved into larger premises in the building on 1 February 2011. ==Architecture==