The 'Axel Towers' by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter
Designed by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter (@lundgaardtranberg).
Located in Axeltorv 2, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Photos by Jens Markus Lindhe, Anders Sune Berg & Lea Jessen.
Description by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter.
Year: 2017.
Area: 23.400 m² above ground & 17.400 m² below ground.
Located in Axeltorv 2, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Photos by Jens Markus Lindhe, Anders Sune Berg & Lea Jessen.
Description by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter.
Year: 2017.
Area: 23.400 m² above ground & 17.400 m² below ground.
Axel Towers is a mixed-use office building with a rich variation of niches, heights and diameters that balances lightness and weight. The five towers are playful like neighboring Tivoli Gardens, robust enough to anchor a bustling part of town and generous in the public spaces they offer people in and around them.
The main concept supports an exclusive yet playful and unpretentious idiom that corresponds with the area’s identity as Copenhagen’s historic entertainment district. On the ground floor, restaurants, cafés and shops offer themselves to the public. Office spaces with views of the city are located behind the rich copper-colored facades and brise soleil reliefs. The circular facades provide the work spaces with an abundance of daylight, all overlooking the city.
Anchoring a fast-paced city
In order to create a mixed-use office building that would offer something back to the city, we collaborated with the Municipality of Copenhagen and the client to change the district plan. Formerly a square building that took up the entire space of the plot, was planned. Through a fruitful dialogue the district plan was changed to include a more generous building height. This way, 1,700 m² could be freed to create public space at the square and between the tower volumes.
Anchoring a fast-paced cityIn order to create a mixed-use office building that would offer something back to the city, we collaborated with the Municipality of Copenhagen and the client to change the district plan. Formerly a square building that took up the entire space of the plot, was planned. Through a fruitful dialogue the district plan was changed to include a more generous building height. This way, 1,700 m² could be freed to create public space at the square and between the tower volumes.
The composition of partly intertwined towers breaks free from the block. Without front or back, Axel Towers can be reached from all corners offering free movement across the square and through the building where broad stairs and an elevated inner square offer quiet, public spaces while serving as an anchor in a fast-paced part of the city.
The newly established landscape at Axeltorv reimagines the green ramparts that used to run here. Axel Towers is rooted in historical Copenhagen while enriching a contemporary public life.
Stairways, lifts and technical installations are placed in the tower cores freeing space for large, attractive workspaces along the facades. This has led to new opportunities for workspace organization for the law firm Gorrissen Federspiel, Axel Towers’ main tenant.
Stairways, lifts and technical installations are placed in the tower cores freeing space for large, attractive workspaces along the facades. This has led to new opportunities for workspace organization for the law firm Gorrissen Federspiel, Axel Towers’ main tenant.
The environmental impact of the day-to-day running of the building is low, this being due to Axel Towers classification as Low Energy 2015, built to correspond to the 2015 Danish Building Regulations. The materials used are robust with a long lifespan. With a measured energy consumption of 36.6 Kwh/m²/year, the building’s energy consumption is even below the Low Energy 2015 standard target of 41,0 Kwh/m²/year.
"The primary factor is proportions." — Arne Jacobsen.