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Atelier Nord

Architecture & interiors — Copenhagen

Buildings thatage slowly,and hold light well.

We design a small number of houses, retreats and cultural rooms each year — drawn in full, built in solid materials, and detailed to the millimetre.

See the workHow we practice
Sunlight falling across a plaster wall in an oak-lined Nordic residence
Hallway study — Lysgård House, Jutland, 2024
16
Years in practice
41
Completed projects
6
Danish design awards
9
People in studio

Selected work

Three of the eleven projects currently on the boards.

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Low limestone pavilion set into a dry garden with long afternoon shadows

Stenhus Pavilion

Skåne, Sweden — Private gallery

2025
Reading room with oak joinery, linen curtain and a travertine bench

The Reading Room

Frederiksberg, Copenhagen — Apartment interior

2024
Hand-planed oak and brass door pull mounted on a plaster wall

Brass & Oak

Studio commission — Hardware series

2023

The practice

A studio of nine.Four projects a year.

We stay small on purpose. It is the only way we know to give a building the number of hours it deserves — and the reason our clients meet the same faces from first sketch to final key.

“Detail is not decoration. It is the argument, written small.”

Mette Holmgaard, founding partner
  1. 01

    Survey and slow reading

    We spend the first weeks on site and in archives — light angles, prevailing wind, how a room is actually used at seven in the morning.

  2. 02

    Drawn in full

    Every project is drawn at 1:5 before it is priced. Nothing is decided on site with a contractor holding a saw.

  3. 03

    Material first

    Lime plaster, solid oak, brass, travertine. Surfaces chosen because they improve with fingerprints rather than resist them.

  4. 04

    Present at hand-over

    The same two people who drew your project stand in it on the final day, and again a year later.

Client voices

Written by the people who live with the result.

They removed more than they added, and the house finally makes sense. Two winters in, nothing has warped, cracked or annoyed us.
Johan & Lise BrandtLysgård House, Jutland
The drawings arrived so complete that our contractor asked who had built it before. That level of preparation kept us on budget.
Karin ÅlundStenhus Pavilion, Skåne
A gallery is a difficult client. Atelier Nord listened for three months before proposing a single wall.
Peder LindDirector, Kunsthal Nord

Commissions for 2027

We take on fourprojects a year.

Tell us about the site, the constraint and the deadline. We reply to every enquiry within five working days — usually with questions.

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Or call the studio directly on +45 33 12 88 04, weekdays 09—17 CET.