A public winter backyard sits on the coronary heart of this cylindrical workplace in Copenhagen, designed by Danish studios Cobe, Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects and Third Nature to evoke the town’s historic silos.
Named Tip of Nordø, the constructing is meant as an “anchor level” for Nordhavn, a former industrial port on the coast of the Øresund Strait, remodeled into a up to date neighbourhood with a masterplan by Cobe.
Tip of Nordø is shortlisted within the giant office class of the Dezeen Awards 2025.
The 60-metre-tall constructing was designed by Cobe, Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects and Third Nature as a reference to historic silos alongside Copenhagen’s waterfront – one in all which Cobe remodeled into an house block as a part of the Nordhavn masterplan.
“Within the [Nordhavn] plan, buildings taller than seven flooring are both an current, repurposed constructing or a brand new one strategically positioned as an anchor level throughout the district,” mentioned Cobe founder Dan Stubbergaard.
“Our website referred to as for one thing particular, a constructing that may stand out whereas nonetheless becoming naturally into the harbour. The Tip of Nordø does simply that,” Stubbergaard advised Dezeen.
“It extends the harbour’s grand, industrial scale into the extra compact, mixed-use metropolis cloth. It’s each a landmark and a up to date nod to the historic silos that after formed the economic harbour and Copenhagen’s waterfront.”
In contrast to unfenestrated types of silos, home windows envelop the outside of Tip of Nordø, drawing gentle deep into the plan of the constructing. A mixture of six uniquely angled facade components makes up the outside.
Mixed with the cylindrical type of the constructing, these home windows additionally present occupants with “a full 360-degree view” of the town and the water.
“We noticed The Tip of Nordø as a type of fashionable lighthouse – an open, welcoming place for the local people that additionally connects with the broader metropolis,” mentioned Stubbergaard.
“The spherical form additionally helps the concept of a democratic workspace.Historically, nook workplaces are seen as the perfect spots, however in a round constructing, everybody will get equal entry to gentle, views, and the horizon,” he continued.
“It is about inclusion, transparency, and openness – structure that brings folks collectively whereas mixing naturally into its context.”
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Inside, Tip of Nordø was designed to perform as a multi-tenant workplace with 1,500 adaptable workspaces.
It’s at the moment house to legislation agency Bech-Bruun and the vitality funding firm Copenhagen Infrastructure Companions (CIP), with every occupying its personal devoted areas.
The center of the constructing is a central atrium, containing a ground-floor winter backyard and cafe, which opens onto an out of doors terrace – all of which is accessible to the general public all yr spherical.
“Occupying such a outstanding place in Nordhavn, the constructing carries a accountability to contribute to its environment,” mentioned Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects accomplice Malte Rosenquist.
“From the outset, the ambition was for the constructing to really feel clear, pleasant, and approachable,” he continued. “One of the simplest ways to attain that was not simply visually however by actually inviting the general public inside.”
The terrace outdoors, which contains amphitheatre-like seating, types a part of a wider panorama design overseen by Third Nature, designed to visually soften the economic look of the workplace.
“The panorama design creates a terraced public house the place gentle degree modifications, broad steps, and inexperienced pockets kind a welcoming transition between metropolis and harbour,” mentioned Third Nature co-founder Ole Schrøder.
“The uncooked industrial character is softened with coastal planting and intimate seating zones, supporting exercise all year long.”
Different tasks vying to win giant office of the yr within the Dezeen Awards 2025 are an artisanal mezcal manufacturing facility in Mexico, workplace buildings related by a glass bridge within the US and Finland’s largest mass-timber constructing.
The images is by Cobe except said in any other case.
Venture credit:
Architects: Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects and CobeLandscape architect: Third NatureClient: PFA EjendommeEngineer: RambøllContractors: Pihl, LM Byg and M J Eriksson
