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Scandinavian studio • Now in the USA • Est. 1951 heritage
White Arkitekter for America.
We are White Arkitekter US — architects, urbanists, landscape and interior designers crafting carbon-neutral, daylight-driven places from New York to California. Nordic soul, American scale.
74years of practice, 5 generations
1 200+specialists in architecture & design
2030climate-neutral goal for all projects
42awards 2023–2026 in EU & US
● Kärnvirke House — Portland, 2025AIA Honor ★
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE ✦ MASS TIMBER ✦ NET-ZERO CAMPUSES ✦ WATERFRONTS ✦ HEALTHCARE ✦ HOUSING ✦ CULTURE ✦ LANDSCAPE ✦ SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE ✦ MASS TIMBER ✦ NET-ZERO CAMPUSES ✦ WATERFRONTS ✦ HEALTHCARE ✦ HOUSING ✦ CULTURE ✦ LANDSCAPE ✦
01 — About the studio
Nordic clarity, built for American life.
whitearkitekter.us is the American home of White Arkitekter — one of Scandinavia's leading architecture collectives, now designing with and for US communities.
From our hubs in New York, Chicago and San Francisco we partner with cities, universities, developers and cultural institutions. Our method is deeply collaborative: research, co-creation, daylight studies, life-cycle analysis and full-scale mockups before a single foundation is poured.
We believe architecture is a public good. Every school, hospital, home and park should give more than it takes — more biodiversity, more daylight, more social warmth, less carbon.
1951 → 2026
Heritage
Founded in Gothenburg by Sidney White. Employee-owned, research-driven, still independent.
2018 → USA
US Chapter
First US commissions in waterfront resilience and mass-timber housing. Today 120+ people stateside.
TODAY
Mission
All new projects climate-neutral by 2030. 100% daylight modeling, 100% community dialogue.
- ✓ Employee-owned — no outside investors, only craft
- ✓ Transdisciplinary: architects + engineers + anthropologists
- ✓ White Research Lab: timber, reuse, daylight & health
02 — Selected work 2022–2026
Projects that heal places.
Housing, culture, learning, care and landscape — six recent US commissions showing our range from intimate cabins to 40-acre masterplans.
Housing • Malibu
Solglimt Villa — Net-positive family retreat
Cross-laminated timber, solar skin, ocean-view courtyard. LEED Platinum.
Workplace • New York
Hudson Timber Hub
12-storey mass-timber workspace reusing 68% of existing structure.
Culture • Chicago
Lake Light Museum
Daylight museum with birch interiors and winter garden atrium.
Healthcare • Seattle
Fjord Care Pavilion
Healing architecture: wood, views to water, silent wards, rooftop forest.
Education • Boston
Green Campus Commons
Carbon-neutral student district for 2,400 residents + urban farm.
Landscape • Miami
Resilient Baywalk
2.3 km tidal park: mangroves, flood terraces, community piers.
03 — Sustainability & philosophy
Beauty that lowers carbon.
We measure beauty in lux, decibels, kilograms of CO₂ and years of joy. Every White Arkitekter US project passes through our Climate Calculator and Daylight Lab.
◐ Daylight first
92% of our interiors achieve premium daylight autonomy without glare.
♻ Reuse & timber
Average 54% lower embodied carbon vs. baseline. Timber where possible.
♥ Social fabric
Co-design with 3,000+ residents yearly. No gated thinking.
≈ Water & wild
Sponge-city landscapes, native planting, zero potable irrigation.
04 — What we do
Full-stack design.
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🏛 Architecture
Housing, schools, hospitals, offices, cultural icons — from concept to construction documents and site supervision.
Mass timber • Adaptive reuse • Net-zero
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◍ Urbanism
Masterplans, waterfronts, transit districts and climate adaptation strategies for resilient American cities.
15-min city • Flood modeling • Zoning
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✳ Interiors
Workplaces, hospitality and private homes with Nordic material palettes: oak, lime plaster, wool, stone.
Well • Biophilic • FF&E
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❋ Landscape
Parks, courtyards, healing gardens and schoolyards that store stormwater and invite play.
Native • Sponge • Playful
05 — Journal / News
Ideas, sites & stories.
Site diaries, research notes and openings — straight from our studios. Click any story to read the full article.
06 — Studio
Meet the makers.
120 people in the US, 1,200 worldwide. Architects, landscape architects, engineers, sociologists and artists — led by partners Anna Lindqvist, Marcus White and Elena Torres.
- New York — HQ
77 Greene St, SoHo. Timber loft, daylight lab, material library open Fridays. - Chicago — Great Lakes
Focus on culture, education and adaptive reuse around the lakes. - San Francisco — Pacific
Housing, hospitality and wildfire-resilient landscapes.
Photo: Friday crit in our SoHo studio — everyone from intern to partner pins up.
07 — Contact • New business
Let's build something that lasts.
Tell us about your site, dream or deadline. We reply within 2 business days. Currently booking Q1–Q3 2027 for large commissions.
✉ [email protected]
✆ +1 (212) 555-0148
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No spam, no pressure. Just architecture talk.