Jyske Bank Headquarters Copenhagen
At Kalvebod Brygge, a glass cube has stood on the harbour front for more than twenty years, reflecting the water rather than announcing itself. In 2025 it became Jyske Bank's Copenhagen headquarters, bringing staff from three locations under one roof.
Image by Niels Nygaard
Light to arrive by
The ground floor is open. Copenhagen based architect studio, Over Byen, took the hotel lobby. Furniture and curtains divide it into softer zones, and the reception sits inside that openness rather than behind a counter. People meet here, wait here, pause here.
Two Enso 120 pendants hang above the reception, set in line. On an open floor without walls, they mark the area without enclosing it - two horizontal lines of paper and oak following the length of the desk. "Glaskuben" takes its light from above through the skylights, so for much of the day they are objects first and lamps second. When the daylight goes, the washi paper softens what they cast, and the reception is lit the way you would light a room to receive someone.
Meeting room in dialogue with nature
For interior, Over Byen, set two pendants in line, so that they read as a single length of light above the table rather than as two fittings. It runs the whole surface, and everyone sitting there is lit the same, wherever they are along it. Against the window the paper stays a form rather than a glare, holding the daylight that comes off the harbour.
Image by Niels Nygaard
A shared approach to what lasts
What connects Jyske Bank's Copenhagen headquarter and Motarasu is an attitude to objects: that what you bring intoa room should be worth keeping there.
Enso 120 is specified for offices, hospitality, and residential interiors.