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NOON · A building house · est. 2014
We acquire buildings with exceptional daylight and lease their floors to people who work by eye. Four holdings, one harbour city, and a survey that measures the only amenity nobody can install.
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Light is the only amenity that cannot be installed.
Power can be laid, lifts can be fitted, walls can be moved. But no budget has ever bought an hour of morning for a north-facing room. When a building is wrong about light it is wrong forever — and when it is right, it is right for centuries. So that is what we buy, and that is all we advertise.
Every figure on this site — every sun-hour, bearing and altitude — is computed from the geometry of the sun over Havnsund as you read it, applied to each building's true orientation. We would rather show you arithmetic than adjectives.
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Former glassworks · 1911 · Havnsund N
North light only: the sun never enters, so nothing ever glares. The painters and the retouchers understood a century ago; the sawtooth roof still agrees.
Former reading hall · 1904 · Havnsund C
One room, one wall of arched glass, and the sun crossing it from breakfast to dusk. The grandest single floor we have ever held.
Former grain warehouse · 1887 · Havnsund Havn
Morning on the water side, evening on the street side, timber columns all day. Deep floors for workshops that need room to think.
Former harbour signal tower · 1931 · Havnsund Havn
Six small floors and then the lantern: glass on every side, sky on all four. The best sunset desk in the city, surveyed and priced accordingly.
Space is what you rent. Light is what you keep.
Every viewing booked at the hour you will actually use the room.
Method in brief · full method on the practice sheet
Every window wall's true bearing, taken on site. The sun forgives nothing and neither does the survey: a wall eight degrees off south is recorded eight degrees off south.
Glass area over wall area, measured pane by pane — not the brochure ratio. The Meridian Hall runs to 71 percent; most offices in this city manage 28.
What the neighbours take, the survey subtracts. Horizon obstructions are walked and measured, then the sun's real arc is run against them for every hour of the year.