David Thulstrup has transformed a 218-year-old hide warehouse in Copenhagen into four exclusive apartments, responding to the building’s rich heritage by creating contemporary homes with character and patina

I wanted to reveal the beauty of it all, using a small palette of original materials out of respect for the building, such as rendered walls, simple pine planks and Finnish stone, but putting them into another more relevant context. 

David Thulstrup

The original building was part of a harbourside precinct in Christianshavn that was a hub for ships from Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. The warehouse was used to store hides, a historic role that Thulstrup references by cladding lift enclosures in natural leather.