COBE Architects   Sweden   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...

Rafael Moneo   Sweden   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

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   Ingmar Bergman used to say: “I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.” A similar situation is the one that tries to recreate a house immersed in a place with lots of trees, just a half-hour drive from Stockhol

Brendeland & Kristoffersen   Sweden   The history of many a city is tied up with that of its principal church. Lund Cathedral’s story begins with its construction in the 11th century – with the help of a troll, as the legend goes – and to it we owe what is the oldest primary school in al

Snøhetta   Sweden   This addition to the renowned Treehotel hovers ten meters above the ground within the tree canopy, in the tall pine forest of Northern Sweden. The complex features another six tree rooms designed by Nordic architects. The 55-square meter (two bedroom

Dorte Mandrup   Sweden   With its angular forms clad in Robinia wood, the new kindergarten of a small coastal village evokes the image of traditional fishermen houses in the historical province of Scania. Located between the beach and the village, the new center for early ed

Ai Weiwei   Sweden   Located in front of the main entrance of the National Museum of Stockholm, this arch-shaped cage of polished steel is pierced by the silhouette of two people holding one another, appearing to break through it. The 12-meter-tall work of the Chinese ar

Wingårdhs    Sweden   On the island of Djurgården, close to Stockholm’s city center and Skeppsholmen Island (location of Rafael Moneo’s Moderna Museet and Arkitekturmuseet), Liljevalchs Konsthall has a new wing. A work of the Swedish practice of Gert Wingårdh, the rectang

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Sweden   Suspended between trees in the Swedish locality of Harads, about 50 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle, this lodge called Biosphere which is part of the Treehouse hotel is wrapped in 350 wooden birdhouses. Designed by the Danish firm Bjarke Ingels

Sauerbruch Hutton   Sweden   A work of the Berlin practice of Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton, this construction is located in a former harbor area of Stockholm, in the Hammarby Sjöstad district. Containing offices and retail spaces, the complex consists of a tower and a s

Andreas Lyckefors Josefine Wikholm   Sweden   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

Bornstein Lyckefors   Sweden   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

Flores & Prats   Sweden   Beyond the construction of the first residential buildings on the site, the commission involves establishing, together with a multidisciplinary team, the criteria to build a new community as part of the expansion plans for Råängen, an agricultural ar

Arquitectura-G   Sweden   A former banking office in the Swedish capital – an anonymous institutional building located in the city center – became world-famous in 1973 thanks to an armed heist and hostage crisis that triggered in the victims a psychological reaction later cal

Foster + Partners   Sweden   New Slussen is one of the largest urban transformation projects in Sweden. The design seeks to create a dynamic urban quarter, responding to its historic context and transforming the labyrinth of traffic in the new city center. New public spaces and

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The facade structure makes no distinction between the three levels, which rotate 45° creating a labyrinthine effect where the landscape becomes a point of reference for the interior. From afar the origami-like volume offers alternative readings of ma

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The six interconnected blocks create a sequence between interior and exterior spaces. With the home proper contained in the four central blocks, the two spaces located at each end of the stretch of rooms are for common use: outdoor courtyard and work

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   In a rural environment, two hours from Stockholm, the residence sits on a hill and becomes a focal point in the landscape, like a beacon. The strict geometry of the house permits organizing the program in large spaces, separating public and private a

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   On an old military site, with two bunkers concealed below ground, the summer house is formed by three modules with a wood structure separated from one another, placed under a large roof that creates an outdoor space sheltered from sun and rain...

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   Inspired in the old farm that used to be on the site, the complex is organized around a large courtyard, protected from strong winds by the four buildings. The design gives a family of three generations a place to spend time together but also live in

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   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.

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   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...

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   Two wings of classrooms plus a central volume with common functions and the sports hall together form an open courtyard to the south. The main entrance at the corner opens up to an atrium that offers visual connections with the whole center...

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

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