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A monumental timber and glass hall standing in low winter sun and fog, its slatted facade glowing faintly across a pale snow field.

Fjeldby Arkitekter — Copenhagen · 55°N

Building light into the North.

A Copenhagen studio shaping calm, low-carbon architecture across Scandinavia — homes, cultural houses, and public space rooted in landscape and daylight.

The studio

We build quietly and to last. Every project begins with the light of its place — how the winter sun grazes a wall, how a room holds warmth at dusk — and the honest materials that let a building age with grace. Timber, stone, glass. Nothing decorative, nothing wasteful.

See selected works

Approach

Four things we hold onto
Close view of an end-grain timber joint, two pale oak members interlocking precisely.
01

Light

We design for the low northern sun, not against it.


02

Material

Timber and stone, left honest and allowed to weather.


03

Landscape

The site leads. The building answers.


04

Low-carbon

Built to last a century, with a fraction of the footprint.

Dusk over a Norwegian fjord: dark water, mountain silhouettes, and a single low timber building lit warm at the shore.

Tåkehall Culture House — concrete and timber holding their warmth under the arctic sky. Tromsø, 2021.

Studio

Copenhagen, since 2014

Fjeldby was founded in Copenhagen in 2014 by a small team who believe good buildings are quiet ones. We work across Scandinavia, from private homes to public cultural houses, and we keep our studio small on purpose — every project passes through the same few hands.

2014 Founded
6 Selected works

Nominated, Mies van der Rohe Award 2023 · Træpris (Danish Timber Prize) 2022 · Featured in Arkitektur DK, Dwell, and Dezeen.

The Fjeldby studio: a long oak worktable with a white building model, drawing rolls and material samples, in a bright pale-wood room.
The studio, Refshalevej — kept small on purpose.

Contact

Let’s build something quiet and lasting.

studio@fjeldby.dk

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Refshalevej 163A
1432 København K
Denmark

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We take on a small number of projects each year. Write to us early — the site visit costs nothing.