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A dark tower rising in a clean, stepped silhouette

Workplace · Copenhagen, Denmark · 2027

In construction

Nordhavn Tower

A tower that steps back to let the harbour breathe.

Overview

Nordhavn Tower is a 22-storey workplace on a timber-hybrid frame, cutting its embodied carbon by more than half compared with a conventional tower.

Its dark facade is a deep frame of anodised aluminium and glass. It steps back at levels 8 and 16 to make planted terraces, open to everyone who works in the building.

Location
Copenhagen, Denmark
Year
2027, expected
Status
In construction
Typology
Workplace
Coordinates
55.7131° N, 12.5977° E

Drawings

Drawn to be built.

Plan, section and elevation, from the lobby to the terrace, each drawn to scale on the structural grid.

Plan, level 00 — Nordhavn TowerGround-floor plan, 30 by 20 metres on a 6 by 5 metre structural grid. Rooms from west to east: Lobby (111 m²), Café (111 m²), Core (122 m²), Workplace (111 m²), Terrace (111 m²). A 9-storey block at the core holds the stair.UPLOBBY111 m²CAFÉ111 m²CORE122 m²WORKPLACE111 m²TERRACE111 m²ENTRYABCDEF12345AA60006000600060006000300002400500050005000500022400NORDHAVN TOWERCOPENHAGEN · 55.7131° N, 12.5977° EPLAN — LEVEL 00 · 1:125A2 LANDSCAPE · CONSTRUCTION0510 mNHALDEN & VOSS · 2027A-101
The ground floor, set out on a 6 × 5 m structural grid.30 × 20 m · 5 rooms · 614 m² ground floor

Materials

Made of few things.

Three materials, chosen at the source and left to age. Nothing is painted to look like something else.

  • Low-iron glass reflecting trees and warm interior light

    Low-iron Glass

    Without the green cast of ordinary glass, so the landscape reads true from edge to edge.

  • Fair-faced concrete with tie holes and formwork joints

    Fair-faced Concrete

    Cast once, in timber formwork we draw ourselves. The tie holes stay: they are how you read the pour.

  • Charred timber boards with a deep black grain

    Charred Oak

    Scorched the old Japanese way, oiled, then left alone. The char is the weatherproofing, and it deepens with every winter.

Details

Specifications.

Location
Copenhagen, Denmark
Site area
3,100 m²
Gross floor area
38,500 m²
Levels
22
Structure
Timber hybrid: CLT slabs, glulam, concrete cores
Facade
Anodised aluminium, triple glazing
Certification
Targeting DGNB Platinum
Completion
2027 (expected)
Team
34 architects

Credits

Architecture and landscape
Halden & Voss Architects
Structural engineering
Brandt Ingeniører
Timber engineering
Nordic Timber Lab
Sustainability
Halden & Voss Research
Client
Nordhavn Estates
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