Architects in Copenhagen

Timber housing and public buildings

Hale & Ward is a small architecture studio. We design homes, libraries and houses in wood, for the city and the coast.

Studio
Hale & Ward
Work
Housing, public, private
Years
2023–2025
Place
København, DK
Low timber and glass library with a sawtooth roof glowing warmly at dusk on flat Amager land with young birch trees
Amager Library, 2024
Shared stair with exposed glulam beam, timber walls and oak treads, a planted courtyard seen through a tall window
Nørrebro Timber Housing, 2025
Small black timber summer house with a pitched roof and a deck, set among sand dunes and marram grass under a grey sky
Fanø Summer House, 2023

Selected work

3 projects, 2023–2025

2025 · Housing

Nørrebro Timber Housing

Nørrebro, Copenhagen

A timber housing block that holds a Nørrebro street corner between brick neighbours.

Corner housing block, timber structure, spruce cladding, shared courtyard

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2024 · Public building

Amager Library

Amager, Copenhagen

A low timber library on Amager, with reading halls lit evenly from the north.

Public library, north-lit reading hall, sawtooth glulam roof

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2023 · Private house

Fanø Summer House

Fanø, Denmark

A small black-timber house set low among the dunes on Fanø.

Summer house, single pitched volume, tarred timber, dune deck

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A small studio that builds in wood: homes in the city, rooms for the public, houses by the sea.

About the studio
Public building
Amager Library
Private house
Fanø Summer House

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