Designed as both a carbon sink and biodiversity driver, Nordør – New Park in Nordhavn will sequester more CO2 than it emits and act as a biodiversity catalyst, both on-site and off-site, for new habitats on land, coast, and sea.

The park combines sport fields, beaches, playgrounds, activity areas, and community spaces within a dynamic framework of wild, self-growing nature – offering Copenhageners both everyday life amenities, ecological resilience, and a much-needed reconnection with nature right outside their doorsteps.

The design of Nordør – New Park in Nordhavn is rooted in an extensive and year-long citizens dialogue involving residents, nature organizations, local sports clubs, and other stakeholders, and devised with a radical idea: to give nature’s own processes space and time to evolve.

Through minimal interventions, the new park is created from the existing landscape – decades of deposited soil, slopes, and ridges from Copenhagen construction sites – carefully refined into a rich mosaic of lagoons, meadows, beaches, grasslands, forest edges, and marine reefs reshape the site into a dynamic meeting point between land and sea, offering equal space for both people and wildlife.

Nordør – New Park in Nordhavn is designed by Team SLA for the City of Copenhagen and By & Havn, and will stand as a global inspiration for how cities can embrace nature as a driver of livability, resilience, and identity.

Team SLA is comprised of SLA, VITA Engineers, Urban Agency, Aaen Engineering, Pihlmann Architects, Buro Happold, Kerstin Bergendal, Holdbart, and Aiming Spaces.

The construction of the park is set to start in 2028.