Kolman Boye Architects   Sweden   Overlooking the port of Stockholm, this wooden residence rises on an irregular plot bordered by steep cliffs. A work of the practice of Erik Kolman and Victor Boye, it seeks to reduce its environmental footprint to a minimum. By partly clinging to th

Topia landskapsarkitekter   Sweden   A composition of six concatenated swamps form a recreational space that also functions as a natural cleanser of the waters of an urban stream before they flow into a large lake. In what until recently was a field of single crop farming, the water cur

Olsson Lyckefors    Sweden   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

Herzog & de Meuron Olsson Lyckefors    Sweden   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...

Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter   Sweden   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

Dorte Mandrup   Sweden   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

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   As part of the expanding military academy at Karlberg Castle in Stockholm, the present historical context and the new building’s relation to the 17th century park are the starting point for this project. The new mess building is conceived as a freest

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The new block occupies the last corner of Sveavägen, the main street connecting Stockholm city to the north. It relates to a context of rather different scales and street characters: the large and busy scale of the main street in east and north, a lo

Tham & Videgård   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

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   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

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   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

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   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

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   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

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   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

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   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

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   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

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   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

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The old electrical station of Malmö, in the south of Sweden, has been transformed into an art museum with an informal and experimental character that would complement the main museum in Stockholm. The greatest challenge posed by the project, (in addi

Barozzi Veiga Hermansson Hiller Lundberg    Sweden   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

COBE Architects Yellon   Sweden   The Danish and Swedish firms Cobe and Yellow, respectively, have won the competition for an apartment tower in the northeastern part of Stockholm, rising 100 meters above sea level and containing 300 units. Composed of three cylinders, it is an inter

Dorte Mandrup   Sweden   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…

Dorte Mandrup   Sweden   The facade is formed by small windows interrupted by larger openings that frame the most important sites of Karlskrona. The mosaic facade relates to the multiple architectural styles in the city and showcases the evolution of its naval past…

Dorte Mandrup   Sweden   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…

1929-2022 Son of a Swedish diplomat on mission in the United States, Claes Oldenburg studied at the universities of Chicago and Yale before adopting the US nationality and settling in New York. In 1961 he opened a small shop on the Lower East Side wh

The Economist   Modern timber buildings can be cheap, green and fireproof.There is a global race to build the tallest wooden skyscraper. The record was held by Mjostarnet, an 85-metre tower on the shore of Lake Mjosa in Norway, which hosts flats, a hotel and a swimm

In the Swedish locality of Jukkasjärvi, 200 km north of the Arctic Circle, one finds Icehotel 365, the rooms of which are and built with snow and ice, including the suite named A Midsummer Night’s Dream, designed by Carl Philip Bernadotte and Oscar L

On view until 28 August at ArkDes, the Swedish Center for Architecture and Design, is ‘Sigurd Lewerentz: Architecture of Death and Life,’ the first exhaustive show on a master who has garnered more recognition posthumously than he ever did while aliv

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Skellefteå has wooden schools, bridges, even car parks. And now it has one of the world’s tallest wooden buildings. We visit Sweden to see what a climate-conscious future looks like. Skellefteå runs on 100% renewable energy from hydropower and wind,

The Guardian   Richard Orange   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

Forbes   David Nikel   Sweden’s northernmost town is on the move, building by building. Because of the risk posed by expanding mining operations, the entire town center of Kiruna is being relocated approximately two miles to the east. More than 20 buildings of historical v

OMA   Norra Tornen, the residential towers in Stockholm, designed by OMA / Reinier de Graaf, has been announced the winner of the ninth edition of the International Highrise Award (IHA)...

Daniel Fernández-Carracedo   Peter Celsing belonged to the last generation of modern Swedish architects who were direct inheritors of the romantic tradition. Like his masters, in his work he not only kept the construction process under control in all its phases and details, but

The Economist   Hilma af Klint did not trust her peers to understand her work. She sensed her paintings were too weird and too radical for her fellow Swedes. As a star pupil of Stockholm’s Royal Academy, she made a living selling impressionistic landscapes. But she

Óscar Miguel Ares   Daniel Fernández-Carracedo   Under the umbrella of Swedish social democracy, the British Ralph Erskine was a pioneer in environmental design and participatory processes.

Since the year 1926, the awarding ceremony of the Nobel Prizes has been held at the Konserthus, the classicist concert hall located at the core of Stockholm. This tradition is soon to end. The foundation originally set up by Alfred Nobel recently ann

Everyone knows that it is difficult to integrate wind energy production systems in buildings, so the proposal by the Swedish studio Belatchew Architecture Lab – though still within the realm of science fiction – is impressive. They propose a skyscrap

Carlos Verdaguer   No cabe mejor constatación sobre el autismo que aqueja desde hace décadas al mundo de la élite mediática arquitectónica que el hecho de que Ralph Erskine haya muerto el 16 de marzo pasado a los 91 años sin haber recibido el Premio Pritzker, supuestam

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

Peter Davey   When the Second World War came to an end, the Nordic countries, though still strongly related by similar culture, were in very different economic shape. Finland had fought the Russians twice, then the Germans, and in the process had lost important pa

Antón Capitel   Nordic architecture does not seem to have existed before the 20th century for the rest of the world. But in the era of modern revolution it became a universally admired cultural power, and some of its masters came to be held as true paradigms of mode

Juhani Pallasmaa   Recently I had the opportunity of seeing an exhibition of Nordic painting of the turn of the century entitled ‘The Northern Light’ at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. The paintings were cleverly hung thematically irrespective of their country of ori

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