New playground

Keep your eyes peeled for four capital letters, with surprisingly Japanese origins, that now appear along Ørestads Boulevard. Designed for employees who work outside the walls with a mac book pro under their arm, Zoku was designed by Hans Meyer and Marc Jongerius, alongside the Concrete studio around two specific axes: mobility and a sense of community, hence this easily memorable name, which means “clan”, “family”, in Japanese. On a building made of red brick from Falun, sometimes purple and sometimes velvet, large windows behind which teams from all over the world organize themselves.

“It had to be a creative oasis, with color, but also collective spaces in which we would have joy and pleasure to find ourselves a bit like at home without being at home” explain the architects. Designed for new periods of time, the rooms are now small lofts, designed as micro-apartments, in which everyone is free to compose. Located opposite the Grønjordssøen Nature Reserve, and wanting to become a destination with as few negative externalities as possible, Zoku complied with social and environmental requirements and obtained a score of 83.8 by B Corp, placing it among the most committed hotel addresses in the Danish capital.