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Glæshus Tower
Malmö, Sweden
Twelve storeys of workspace wrapped in low-iron glass and brushed brass, with stepped terraces shaped by the path of the winter sun.
Copenhagen · est. 2011
Architecture as
quiet attention.
Norden Atelier is a small Copenhagen studio designing considered buildings rooted in light, material, and landscape. Houses, public buildings, and adaptive reuse across the Nordic countries.
The studio
Nine architects, one studio manager, four drawing boards. We take on six to eight projects each year, with care.
We design buildings that ask very little of their visitors and a great deal of their architects. The detail that disappears took three weeks. The wall that looks effortless was built by a mason who has been laying brick for forty-one years.
Selected work
All workThree recent projects.
02Residential2025
House on the Cliff
Bornholm, Denmark
A low, lime-washed villa set into the granite edge of the Baltic, framing the horizon through three deep window rooms.
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Taastrup Pavilion
Greater Copenhagen
A demountable timber pavilion built from one species, jointed without glue, designed to be rebuilt elsewhere when its first life ends.
Studio brief, 2019
“We want the building to be the second thing you notice, after the weather.”
Ida Lindqvist, founding partner
The journal
Read moreRecent writing from the studio.
Studio Notes
On quiet architecture
A note on why we keep returning to the same handful of materials, and what we mean when we say a building should be quiet.
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Method
Designing with daylight, not against it
A short field guide to how we measure, draw, and model daylight at the studio, and the small habits that have made the biggest difference.
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Project Updates
Project update: Glæshus Tower
A halfway report from the Malmö site, where the brass cladding has begun to weather and the first stepped terrace has poured.
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If you are quietly considering a project, write to us.
We respond to every enquiry within a working week. A first conversation is informal: a coffee in the studio, or a walk on the site if the weather is kind.
Studio contact