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Design: Tengbom, Architects. Award news – the temporary structure has been a popular success with almost twice as many visitors per week as the historic market hall building and an increase in the trader’s turnover of up to 50%.
Architects: Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter. Conceived as a wooden palisade this new layer defines an envelope within which the museum can continue to expand, converting class rooms into new exhibition spaces as additional funds are raised.
Architects: Snøhetta In the tall pine forest of Northern Sweden, where the tricolored tree trunks stretch up to the soaring crowns, a new addition to the renowned Treehotel has opened.
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects. Mies van der Rohe 2017 Award Nominee; previously World’s best Mixed-use project at World Architecture Festival 2016, and Swedish Building of the Year Award: 54,000 sqm hotel, congress and concert complex.
Design: Tham & Videgård Arkitekter. The site for this building, with its very tangible cultural and historical context and physical limitations, is the opposite of a blank slate.
Design: OMA. How does one make a project from ingredients one is usually keen to avoid? What repertoire should be invoked when (modern) architecture’s most instant reflexes: asymmetry, prismatic volumes and smooth exteriors instantly prove impossible?
Design: Richard Lindvall. Interior for celebrated restaurateurs Tim Karlsson and Michael Andreasson. The building was used by the Swedish Tax Agency: a maze of tiny meeting rooms with low ceilings were stripped out, removing any trace of the old bureaucrats.
London art-architecture studio atmos has just opened Dreamscape, a new type of hotel room for a new type of Ice Hotel – the ‘365’ at ICEHOTEL Sweden, which will offer its guests icy escapes all year round.
Design: Wingårdhs, architects. Krokslätt Factories is an industrial area south of Gothenburg that is registered as a cultural heritage site. The large brick textile factories are now being expanded with a new development in which the primary focus is on sustainability.
Design: Tengbom, Architects. Envac’s waste collection station in the district of Stora Ursvik, just north of Stockholm, has become the first industrial building in Sweden to secure BREAAM certification after it received the coveted ‘Excellent’ rating.
Design: Wingårdh, architects. It started in the 1990s with Arne Olson, a young man with a passion for ecology. The building is nine stories high with a load-bearing frame of solid wood from Martinsson’s, and the outside is entirely clad in cedar shingles. It looks like a wooden house.
Design: Morag Myerscough & Luke Morgan. This dramatic 10m high temporary landmark forms a striking gateway to Stockholms Kulturfestival situated on Norrbro bridge over Norrström with the historical backdrop of the Riksdag building and the Royal Palace.
Inauguration in Stockholm for the Värtaterminalen ferry terminal designed by C.F. Møller. More than just a ferry terminal, the innovative facility combines infrastructure with urban park, providing a new recreational space for the people of Stockholm.
Design: Krupinski/Krupinska Arkitekter. The small house is located by a lake in the Stockholm archipelago, on a site that in the early 1900s was inhabited by a gardener. Plants and walls from then still remain to a large extent today.