Nordmark & Nordmark arkitekter

What Nordmark & Nordmark arkitekter does

Nordmark & Nordmark arkitekter is a privately held architecture firm founded in 2010 by Josefina Nordmark, headquartered in Luleå with additional offices in Skellefteå and Umeå in northern Sweden. The firm operates across the full architectural service spectrum — architecture, urban development, interior design, and scenography — serving municipalities, public institutions, property developers, housing associations, and private individuals. Its methodology is contextual and analytical, with a strong emphasis on sustainable construction using timber frames, cellulose insulation, and circular-economy materials, and on designs anchored to local topography and natural ecosystems in northern Norrland.

The firm's business model combines traditional project-based professional-service fees (earned through competitive tenders, invited competitions, and direct commissions) with a parallel property development stream via its wholly-owned subsidiary Eljest, established in 2016. Eljest acts as both developer and architect on small-scale sustainable residential projects such as the Kronanbacken townhouses in Luleå, functioning as an internal innovation laboratory and generating incremental developer margin. Notable commissions include the Skellefteå Resecentrum competition win (2024, in partnership with C.F. Møller Architects), student housing at Campus LTU (291 units, 2016), Kv Tallen in Piteå (110 units, 2019), and the Swedish Ambassador's Residence in Santiago de Chile (2006). The firm holds Miljöbyggnad Silver certification on selected projects and has been recognised at the Venice Biennale (2012, 2018), SVT2 television, and in publications such as Arkitektur and Domus.

Name

Nordmark & Nordmark arkitekter

Legal name

Nordmark & Nordmark

Website

https://nordmarknordmark.se

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Nordmark & Nordmark arkitekter is a 13-person architecture firm founded in 2010 in northern Sweden (Luleå, Skellefteå, Umeå) that delivers architecture, urban development, interior design, and scenography services to municipalities, developers, and private clients, with sustainable construction and a wholly-owned property development subsidiary called Eljest.

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akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (541310), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413), Landscape Architectural Services (54132), Interior Design Services (54141)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Sustainable building design
• Urban development planning
• Interior architecture services
• Scenography design

Headquarters

HQ city

Luleå

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Architecture and Design Services: Traditional architecture firm revenue from designing buildings, interiors, and public spaces for public and private sector clients. Services span from concept and early-stage work through detailed design to completed built environments. Revenue is project-based, earned through consultancy fees on commissioned work.
2. Property Development (Eljest): Nordmark & Nordmark operates its own property development company, Eljest, which builds sustainable housing independently. Founded 2016, Eljest develops residential properties (e.g., Kronanbacken townhouses in Luleå) for sale or rental, generating development margin alongside architectural fees.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Nordmark & Nordmark arkitekter is a regional architecture practice in northern Norrland (Sweden) providing full-service architectural design across architecture, urban development, interior design, and scenography. The firm delivers projects from concept through detailed design to completed built environments for municipalities, public institutions, property developers, and private clients, with an emphasis on contextually anchored, sustainable design using timber and circular materials.

Product overview

Nordmark & Nordmark arkitekter operates as a single integrated architecture practice offering design services across architecture, urban development, interior design, and scenography. The firm also operates Eljest (founded 2016), a subsidiary property development company that builds sustainable housing in its own name, serving as an internal innovation lab. Projects span multi-family housing, public spaces, commercial buildings, student housing, vacation homes, and exhibitions. Notable projects include the winning competition entry for Skellefteå's new travel center (2024), Hållbarhetshuset Kv Risslan recycling center (2022), Kv Tallen residential quarter in Piteå (2019), and the Embassy Residence in Santiago de Chile (2006).

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Brands

• Eljest: Property development subsidiary of Nordmark & Nordmark arkitekter focused on building sustainable housing in their own right. Founded 2016, pilot project Kronanbacken completed 2019.

Products and services

• Architecture and Design Services Full-service architectural design across architecture, urban development, interior design, and scenography, from concept to completed built environments, for municipalities, public institutions, real estate developers, and private clients in Sweden.
• Eljest Property Development Property development arm that builds sustainable residential housing in-house, operating as both developer and architect to control design goals and cost efficiency. Pilot project Kronanbacken in Luleå delivered three terraced timber houses (520 m² BTA).

Quantifiable outcome

• Kv Tallen (110 units, 14,200 m²) completed 2019 for Lindbäcks; Kv Rönnen (~170 units, ~12,000 m²) in development; multiple large housing projects delivered
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Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• C.F. Møller ArchitectsflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Nordmark & Nordmark won the Skellefteå Resecentrum competition in collaboration with C.F. Møller Architects. The partnership combines local regional expertise with international architectural practice. The project encompasses a new station building, bus terminal, and public spaces — a landmark project for northern Sweden.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Snøhetta: Internationally recognized Scandinavian architecture and design practice. While broader and global in scope, the overlapping focus on sustainability, contextual design, and public/cultural projects makes Snøhetta a useful broad incumbent benchmark.
• BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group): Global, high-profile architecture firm that participates in the same types of prestigious public-sector competitions where Nordmark & Nordmark bids, including infrastructure and cultural projects in Scandinavia. Useful as a benchmark for competition-based growth.
• SWECO Architects: Large engineering-and-architecture consultancy with extensive presence across Sweden including the north. Competes in integrated design-and-engineering public tenders and offers a broader service portfolio but with overlapping project types (housing, public buildings, urban development).

Direct peers

• White Arkitekter: One of the largest Scandinavian architecture firms with deep Swedish presence and a track record in residential, public, and urban development. Competes with Nordmark & Nordmark in many of the same northern Swedish municipal tenders and shares a sustainability-led, contextual design ethos.
• Tengbom: Large Swedish architecture practice with offices across Sweden including northern presence. Directly competes for public-sector and developer-led commissions of the type Nordmark & Nordmark pursues (housing, civic, urban regeneration).
• Wingårdhs: Major Swedish architecture firm headquartered in Gothenburg with national reach. Comparable in offering full-service architecture (residential, public, urban) and competing for high-profile competition commissions on which Nordmark & Nordmark also bids.
• C.F. Møller Architects: Nordmark & Nordmark's explicit partner on the Skellefteå Resecentrum competition win (2024). C.F. Møller is a leading Scandinavian architecture practice with overlapping portfolio (transport infrastructure, public buildings, urban development) and similar context-driven, sustainability-led design philosophy — the most directly comparable peer.
• Tham & Videgård Arkitekter: Swedish architecture practice recognized for sustainability, context-driven design, and signature residential and public projects. Strong overlap in design philosophy and project typologies (residential, timber, contextual urbanism).
• Liljewall arkitekter: Mid-sized Swedish architecture firm with similar regional-pillar positioning and a strong sustainability and housing portfolio. Comparable scale and service scope (architecture, interiors, urban development) with overlap in the developer-client space.

Regional players

• Arkitema: Danish-owned architecture firm with growing Swedish presence (offices including in northern Sweden). Competes for residential and public-sector commissions of similar typology, though headquartered across the Öresund rather than in Norrland.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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