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Design: Weatherhead Architecture. The central piece of the Allarp master plan in the county of Halland: The roof is to become a haven for all sorts of insects and birds, reinstating the flower of Halland, the increasingly rare hårginsten flower
Henning Larsen Architects, with SLA and Tyréns, win architecture competition for a new 25,000sqm town hall building. A glass-roofed courtyard will be the new, public gathering place of the city, with its transparent architecture.
MAX IV is a national laboratory operated jointly by the Swedish Research Council and Lund University. The synchrotron facility is created by FOJAB architects, and Snøhetta architects has designed the 19 hectares landscape park.
Design: Foster + Partners. Work starts on site at Slussen, located at the heart of the historic city and its archipelago. The construction of the New Slussen is one of the largest urban transformation projects in Sweden.
Design: Kjellander + Sjöberg Architects. The project It Takes a Block has been announced as the winner for the design innovation competition – The Nordic Built City Challenge – for the Swedish site in Sege Park in Malmö.
Design: Matteo Cainer Architects Ltd. Extension of the Kulture Magasinet building in Sundsvall occupying a beautiful location between the two hills that enclose the city, and that faces the Selangeran River.
Design: C. F. Moller, Architects. The buildings are constructed from solid wood, contributing positively to the project life cycle perspective. Solid wood is a renewable resource with low energy consumption and a reduced Co2 footprint.
Design: Snøhetta. The MAX IV Laboratory, a high-performance synchrotron radiation laboratory, is under construction on 19 hectares (47 acres) of traditional, productive land outside the city of Lund in southern Sweden.
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has won the international competition to design Hästen 21, a 43,000sqm development in central Stockholm, Sweden.
Design: Tham & Videgård Arkitekter. Tall pines give the forested site an untouched character. The house is placed in a clearing with a high position in the landscape, on a plateau facing the sea in the north.
Design: Polyform. The opening of Täby Torg marks a new chapter in the city of Täby’s history. The center of Täby is a part of the Swedish “Million Programme” which was executed in the 1960’s.
Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture design a new office building for the steel manufacturer Lecor. The building is situated in Kungälv, 10 kilometers north of Gothenburg. Lecor manufacture advanced steel constructions and wanted to showcase their skills in their own building.
Benoy, the international firm of Architects, Masterplanners, Interior and Graphic Designers, is proud to announce the opening of its latest project, Mall of Scandinavia.
Design: Snøhetta / White Arkitekter. The cultural center is part of an urban development project: the City between Bridges. The new development is seen as an important catalyst for Umeå’s urban regeneration, and it aims to create a cultural area along the river Ume.
Architect and Engineer: Santiago Calatrava. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is pleased to announce this year’s winner of the 10 Year Award, Malmö’s Turning Torso. This is a mixed-use residential tower for a prominent site in Malmö’s Western Harbor area.
Design: Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture. The new hotel, consists of 34 bedrooms, a conference room, a lounge and offices. It will convey a sense of the countryside, the vivid forest is present throughout, through the materials of wood, stone and dim colors.
Atrium Ljungberg, one of Sweden’s largest listed real estate companies, has selected Belatchew Arkitekter as the winner of an invited architectural competition for the construction of a symbolic building in Hagastaden in Stockholm.