Sjustjärnan
New Nordic headquarters for E.ON
Right next to Malmö Central Station stands Sjustjärnan, a stately office building of 36,000 sqm completed in 2023. Kanozi Arkitekter has been involved in the project since the start by winning a project competition together with Castellum. The building has been certified according to BREEAM Outstanding and has several innovative ideas and well thought-out solutions, both from a social and ecological sustainability perspective.
Client | Castellum / E.ON |
Location | Malmö |
Year | 2017-2023 |
Size | 36 000 m² |
Environmental classification | Breeam Outstanding |
Sjustjärnan was completed in 2023.
An office to thrive in
E.ON's new headquarters in the Sjustjärnan building is big enough for all 1,800 employees and, most importantly, all environments have been designed with a focus on human well-being. We want everyone to feel good here, so good that they would rather go to the office than work from home. These factors have been built into the project from the start. For example, there are no fixed workplaces, everyone should be close to each other. Those who want to sit together sit together, those who need to withdraw to work in a more secluded and undisturbed way take a quieter place. The same idea runs through everything. From floor to ceiling, on every floor and in all the furnishings. There are only coffee stations in the various departments, and when it's time to eat, people gather in the communal lunch room at the top of the building. On the ground floor there is a restaurant where everyone is welcome, including visitors from outside.
An innovative facade
Two softly shaped buildings meet in an atrium with a sculptural staircase, the spine of the building. The facade represents the different parts of the building, creating a variety that enriches the street space and holds the building together. It is also here that we find the building's main innovation, the double-glazed façade. The cold air from the night lingers in the gaps between the facades, helping to keep the temperature down when the sun shines. The air between the different façade elements also reduces the need for heating during the colder days of the year. Double glazing has additional benefits: light is refracted, allowing clearer glass to be used. Large glass sections create bright workplaces inside and the sunlight reaches far into the premises. The need for solar shading is reduced compared to a traditional façade, it is integrated and part of the aesthetic design.
The double glazing allows the solar shading to be positioned away from the façade. It also helps to refract light, allowing us to use both clearer glass and more glass, which in turn creates brighter workplaces.
Marcus Hultberg, architect SAR/MSA
Biotope balconies
For Kanozi Architects, sustainability is a design driver, innovative solutions that we integrate into every project we work on. In Sjustjärnan, this includes people's well-being in the workplace, but also insects and animals. On the western facade are the biotope balconies. Here birds can nest and insects live in environments where the vegetation is taken from the Scandinavian landscape. A biotope is a biological term, its special characteristics mean that some organisms thrive better than others. Roof terraces with pergolas, planting beds and terraces also provide spaces for people, plants and animals. As part of the building, it also becomes part of employees' everyday lives, something to talk about and reflect on. We believe this contributes to healthier employees and a better workplace.
Want to know more about Sjustjärnan or our other projects in Malmö? Get in touch with us!
Daniel Hohenthal, daniel.hohenthal@kanozi.se 0767 - 65 19 04,
Marcus Hultberg, marcus.hultberg@kanozi.se 0705 - 71 20 07
Photographer: Felix Gerlach and Werner Nystrand