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Underpinned by our Scandinavian design heritage, we bring you regular stories about architecture and interiors, exploring natural materials, acoustics, and the creation of safe and harmonious environments.
We travel to Denmark and the head office of world-famous beer brand Carlsberg, where we speak to Lone Wiggers of C.F. Møller Architects about the design of the award-winning building and its eye-catching wood-clad atrium.

Lone Wiggers is partner and architect at C.F. Møller Architects, one of Scandinavia’s leading architectural firms with over 100 years of award-winning work worldwide.
We were tasked with creating a large (15.000m²), efficient and flexible office building in the former garden of the villa of the late brewer Carl Jacobsen.
The atrium is the “heartroom” of the building – a spatial configuration that combines all floors horizontally and vertically, creating a meeting place for the whole organisation. The dark wooden panels are enclosing the stairs, lifts, and toilet cores, representing a sort of central “anchor” in the building. The panels are also helping to control the acoustic properties of the atrium.
The atrium is the only way that the employees can pass through the building, so this space is the core of the social meeting places. The employees will also visually see each other across the open space of the atrium, and meet in the many breakout and temporary work zones around the atrium.
Since a lot of the employees will pass through, and meet in, the atrium, the need for good acoustics is paramount. The micro-perforated wood panelling that has been used on the wall surfaces on the staircase cores of the atrium helps regulate the acoustics to a good speaking level.
The building lives up to the strictest energy consumption levels of the current building regulations, and is generally designed with a flexible layout, which caters for future transformation of the workspaces. Sustainable materials used also include CO2-friendly regenerative bamboo flooring, sedum green roofs and solar panels. The large windows provide ample daylight and views to the surrounding green areas, and together with the façade detailing and the built-in blinds, the users of the building enjoy a pleasant and well-balanced climate.
As well as providing a modern and dynamic workplace that supports knowledge sharing and innovation, the building stands in harmony with its surroundings whilst championing sustainability.
Photos:
Adam Mørk (header and image 2)
Mew (Lone Wiggers portrait)
Tine Bek (image 1 and 3)