1953, Sweden
The island of Gotland, where this vacation home has been built, is the least populated county in the country, and known internationally for its diverse animal and plant life. The house sits at the edge of an open landscape, slightly elevated on a for
The site is on an island on the west coast of Sweden, and has a unique position perched on a steep mountain rock located close to the highest point in the landscape. It offers wide and open views over the sea and the horizon. The client wanted two ho
The setting is the Stockholm archipelago, on a natural ground sloping gently down to the sea, mostly open with a few trees and bushes. Unlike other projects on sites without car access from the mainland, this one was relatively easy to reach also wit
The site is located on the southwest coast of Sweden, in an old agricultural area gently sloping down towards the sea. In the midst of a vast and open cultivated landscape, this plot constitutes an exception as it is planted with many different trees
The client wanted a garden, and decided to leave an apartment in downtown Stockholm for a home on the Mälaren lakefront. In response to this desire, the house proposed becomes part of the vegetation by wrapping it in a trellis for vines and seven dif
The single-family house in Stocksund, a residential area on the outskirts of Stockholm, is a long and thin block with cut-outs for light, double-heights, and a roof terrace. Through its position on the site, placed perpendicular to the property entra
This vacation home on the island of Gotland, in the Baltic Sea, is built on a slight ridge that marks the location of the coastline a thousand years ago. In relation to the open and expansive landscape, the building seems more like a low wall built a
The most sustainable buildings are those which remain in use the longest. Robustness is crucial to longevity, so solid and reliable construction methods are fundamental for a sustainable architecture. With this in mind, the design seeks to provide dy
Located on the quayside of the Munksjön Lake, these two urban housing blocks are based on a long term strategy of sustainability. Rather than a row of standard housing slabs, the requested number of apartments was assembled into two large units. The
Skeppsholmen island used to be the headquarters of the Swedish navy, and, as such, it was a parallel city, autonomous, with all the resources necessary to carry out its mission: shipyards, barracks, munitions dumps, hospitals, churches, workshops, gy
The bankinter headquarters go up by the palace of the Marquis of Mudela, a work of the architect Álvarez Capra, and it is the first case, in the process of transformation of the Paseo de la Castellana, where the building volume permitted by regulatio
The external image is given by the superposition of three levels in a cross-shaped plan and rotated 45º from the previous one, generating a sequence of opaque surfaces combined with large terraces open to the landscape.
Inserted into the heart of the campus of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, putting a preexisting courtyard to good use, is this new architecture school building covering a total floor area of 9,140 square meters in six floor level
This small vacation home designed by the architectural firm Tham & Videgård is located on a strategic promontory of the island of Krokholmen, very close to the city of Stockholm. The wooden construction faces a forest of conifers on one side, and
Petter Dass (1647-1707) is considered to be one of the most important and respected Norwegian poets. He was also the Vicar at the church of the small town of Alstahaug in the province of Nordland, where he passed away, and where now the 1,350-square
Rising across a Romanesque cathedral and appropriating two houses erected in the 17th century, the building engages in dialogue with its surroundings through an open and faceted volumetry.
The Swedes Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård Hansson founded their studio in Stockholm in 1999 with the ambition of presenting their work as an experimental alternative to conventional Swedish architecture. Their interventions cover different areas that
Connected to its environment through a unifying platform, this summer house is located in the furthermost area of the archipelago of the Swedish capital, prompting different interpretations of the relationship between space and natural environment. T
La residencia de vacaciones se sitúa sobre los ondulantes campos de trigo y cebada de la región de Skåne, en el extremo sur de la península sueca, en un lugar cerca de la costa desde donde se puede divisar el mar en el horizonte. La belleza de este p
The proposal to replace a restaurant that had burned down twice in Sweden’s very first public park revolves around the construction of a fretwork gallery creating a covered transition space between the interior on one hand, and the wonderful greenery
This new branch of the insurance company Previsión Española sought to blend into the architectural tradition of Seville, but without making a fuss. The idea was to respect the surrounding city, integrating the building into its scheme and adjusting i
El Pabellón de Cristal para el recinto ferial de Cuenca, de Belén Moneo y Jeff Brock, se genera a partir de un módulo arbóreo, una copa pentagonal de vidrio sostenida por un fuste de cuatro brazos de acero que da lugar a una malla irregular. Con suel
Bilbao and Stockholm are the two poles of an architectural debate that has also emerged in the latest museum projects in New York City.
