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COBE wins the competition to design a 25.000 m2 office building for PFA Ejendomme in Copenhagen's Nordhavnen area. Together with Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects and Tredje Natur, COBE envisions a new landmark for the neigbourhood and a new meeting place for all residents of Copenhagen. 

The overall vision for The Tip of Redmolen is to create a building that signals openness, robustness and dynamism and aims to create an entirely new meeting place for all residents of Copenhagen. A destination where urban life can unfold throughout the year in strong correlation with the residents and the working environment to be established. It is important that the project's great qualities on the ground floor are accessible to all and become an attraction for the city. 

creating a versatile and inspiring working environment

In this way the project generously underlines the client's basic desire that the house must appear friendly, transparent, and responsive, while creating a landmark in Copenhagen's harbour front. This is where you go and buy an ice cream in the old customs building, and at the same time work and reside enjoying the magnificent views of Øresund and the towers of Copenhagen. A new archetypical Copenhagen location within the city.

How to create an ofice building as well as an urban destination in Nordhavnen - in the middle of Copenhagen's harbour front?

For the coming years Nordhavnen will be transformed into a new Copenhagen neighbourhood. The Tip of Redmolen will be a prominent landmark in the new neighbourhood greeting all visitors. The tip inscribes itself in the uniqueness of the surrounding neighborhood’s character, and will become a landmark together with the preserved old silos.

The program division creates a concept for an office building that interacts with the surrounding city. A new public landscape plinth is combined with the atrium establishing a central meeting place as the heart of the building

COBE's proposal for the division of the program

And creating a varied and diverse facade expression

The competition program

ground floor plan

mounting principle of the facade

roof garden

section

typical floor plan

north elevation

south elevation

Project Facts