The residential project of the Swedish firm led by Johan Olsoon and Andreas Lyckefors is located on the island of Hisingen, which belongs to the municipality of Göteborg. With a total size of 43,200 square meters, the three apartment blocks rise betw
The twin volume in proportion, scale, and materiality is placed close to its antecessor, leaving between them a narrow courtyard-gallery space that organizes the museum route, and culminates in both facades in a curve that connects the two...
The extension is conceived as a composition of several volumes clad with the typical brick of the area, but reinterpreted with a lighter appearance, as an openwork, which adds visual appeal and dynamism to the facade by creating an interplay of light
The materials proposed for the extension establish a continuum with the original building, on which it rests lightly with a glass-topped gallery while preserving its identity with a fragmented facade that adapts the scale of the museum to that of the
The Spain-based practice of Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga – in collaboration with the Swedish architects Hermansson Hiller Lundberg and the landscape architect Peter Korn – has won the competition to revamp the Göteborgs Konstmuseum. A half-bu
The station has been renovated several times on the basis of the same element: the vault. The new design respects this geometry and is inspired by the city’s yellow brick facades to rebuild a large double-height hall in the three-story building…
In Gothenburg’s new quayside district and with more than 37,000 square meters, Kaj16 is one of largest hybrid structures in the world: the modular timber crown rests on a permeable concrete base that becomes an interwoven part of the city…
The library is located in the heart of Näckrosen Park, a green space halfway between the city center and the campus.The whole aesthetic of the building, from its composition to the materials and facade colors, brings to mind an open book...
The Swedish architects Andreas Lyckefors and Josefine Wikholm, a married couple, raised this wooden construction in the residential neighborhood of Askim, in the city of Gothenburg. Within it, two identical three-floor dwellings have different orient
In Långedrag, a district of the Swedish city Gothenburg, on land adjacent to Fritz Schéel’s villa, built in 1915, stands this house surrounded by vegetation. Adapting to the slope of Osberg Hill, the two-story residence breaks up into three volumes c
The houses are given different colors and a compact design in three levels. The rounded sites are surrounded by vegetation, and a network of meandering pathways connects the neighborhood internally as well as link it out towards the surrounding area.
To connect the campus with the surroundings, the new ensemble of buildings – which integrates the existing volume –, brings together all the art faculties, forming an urban block around a closed courtyard that becomes an outdoor workshop...
With a light structure of white steel columns and glass, the tower marks the entrance to the Congress Center, and houses a hotel with 400 rooms; the project seeks a direct and open connection with the place and with the urban fabric of the city...
The Crack kiosk is constructed with more than 70 different black concrete interlocking blocks, which were cast in moulds made of EPS foam through a three-dimensional modeling computer process and using a hot wire cutting equipment... [+]
The intervention has brought back the original plaster tones that Asplund conceived in 1938 to merge the two parts of the building in an organic whole; tones which had been adulterated by successive repaintings.
Aiming to create a cabin that changes in color depending on the position of the observer, 95 templates of 2 mm-thick corrugated sheet and a printed marble-like texture are the only elements needed to materialize this experiment anywhere.
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
The Regnlekplatsen, or “rain playground”, is part of Rain Gothenburg, a bold plan to be “the best city in the world when it’s raining”. “The tourist agency has only wanted to sell pictures of a sunny Gothenburg, even though it rains here nearly 40% o
The university of Göteborg is the common denominator among the members of Grön, who all coincided there either as teachers or students. Four natives of the peninsula group that composes Scandinavia – the Norwegian Fredrik Lund (1959), the Dane Henrie
