Marc Goodwin photographs 27 Nordic architecture offices
Architecture photographer Marc Goodwin has captured the working environments of Nordic architecture offices including Henning Larsen, Snøhetta and Tham & Videgård Arkitekter.
Goodwin, who runs the photography studio Archmospheres, captured a variety of working environments including one inside a converted flour mill, another in an 1930s department store and one inside a camera shop.
The layouts vary, ranging from a narrow studio space that accommodates just a few architects, to a multistorey office for hundreds of workers.
Danish studio Henning Larsen, which occupies a department store built in 1930s, features alongside 3XN, which works out of a former boat store in Copenhagen.
The offices of other well-known firms including CF Møller, Snøhetta and Tham & Videgård Arkitekter are also included in the selection as well as lesser-known studios.
The seven employees of Jägnefält Milton work within an old stable surrounded by exposed brick and weathered wooden columns.
Swedish firm White Arkitekter‘s offices – one of the only purpose-built spaces on the list – wrap around a central void.
The images form part of a series of photosets by Goodwin documenting the studios of architects. He previously visited the workplaces of London architects, and is planning his next series on Paris.
Take a look inside all 27 Nordic architecture studios:
KHR Arkitekter
In this space since: 2010
Building’s former use: boat houses built to store naval ships in 1813
In this space since: 2001
Number of employees: 170 in Copenhagen
Building’s former use: department store completed in 1939, designed by architects H Ortmann and V Berner Nielsen
In this space since: 2014
Number of employees: 85
Building’s former use: boat houses built to store naval ships in 1813
Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter
Number of employees: 40
Norrøn
In this space since: 2014
Number of employees: 8
In this space since: 1981
Number of employees: 80 in Copenhagen branch
Building’s former use: part of the School of Architecture
In this space since: 2011
Number of employees: 5
Building’s former uses: bakery, Turkish club, two art galleries
Number of employees: 7
Building’s former use: stables
White Arkitekter
In this space since 2003
Number of employees: 315
Building’s former use: purpose built by White Arkitekter
Elding Oscarson Arkitekter
In this space since: 2014
Number of employees: 8
Building’s former use: brewery
In this space since: 2002
Number of employees: 15
Building’s former use: head offices, including the telephone service for a local taxi company
Streetmonkey
In this space since: 2016
Number of employees: 3
Building’s former use: built in 1940 as housing
In this space since: 2007
Number of employees: 40
Building’s former use: silk mill, which still operates from one room in the building. The upper floor of the building is occupied by a museum dedicated to the mill
In this space since: 2012
Number of workstations: More than 1,400
Building’s former use: newspaper headquarters built in 1960-2
Superunion Architects
In this space since: 2015
Number of employees: 4
Building’s former use: soap factory
Snøhetta
Number of employees: 119
Building’s former use: storage area for harbour deliveries
In this space since: 2004
Number of employees: 50
Building’s former use: storage area for harbour deliveries
Atelier Oslo
In this space since 2011
Number of employees: 12
Link
In this space since: mid 1980s
Number of employees: 59 in Olso branch
Building’s former use: flour mill
Ghilardi + Hellsten Arkitekter
In this space since: 2007
Number of employees: 11
Building’s former uses: dance studio
In this space since: 1999
Number of employees: 15
Building’s former use: offices
In this space since: 2013
Number of employees: 40
Building’s former use: tennis court. The remainder of the building is still in use as student housing
B&M Architects
In this space since: 2008
Number of employees: 20
Building’s former use: cable factory, which was turned into offices in the 1980s
JKMM
In this space since: 2015
Number of employees: 65
Building’s former uses: office building designed by Raoul Lehman in 1978
Studio Puisto / Rudanko Kankkunen
In this space since: 2014
Number of employees: 6
Building’s former use: fabric store, supermarket
Talli / Leviska
(three offices in shared space)
In this space since: H&L moved in in 1997, Talli in 2012
Number of employees: 21 (Talli 14 people, Helander & Leiviskä 5, Micki Schnitzler 2)
Building’s former use: apartment block built in 1929
Number of employees: 30
Building’s former use: built as offices between 1976 and 1990
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