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A team of Danish architects and landscape architects has completed the European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden, a campus that aims to “advance material research for science and innovation.”
Base price for a one-night stay in the two-person Biosphere, designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group with a facade made from 340 bird nests: 12,000 SEK ($1300/€1150)
Norra Tornen, a two-tower residential project designed by OMA partner Reinier de Graaf for a site in Stockholm's city center, has been named the winner of the biennial International Highrise Award 2020.
Forum Square in Uppsala has been revitalized by White arkitekter with a 65-meter-long, double-sided sofa made from 3,500 pieces of a glass-quartz composite that meld to create a contoured landscape.
Centrally located in the heart of new Kiruna, the building encourages equal access to all citizens. In the subarctic sunlight, The Crystal’s radiant white exterior establishes it as a visible landmark for a resilient community.
The 25,000m2 wooden hillside at the edge of Stockholm’s treasured national park Gärdet celebrates its official opening together with the city’s tallest new structure, OMA’s Norra Tornen.
In a city center with a housing stock largely built before the Second World War, Norra Tornen introduces a new way of living which brings together density with the possibility to enjoy outdoor space (Stockholm ranks fourth among the cities with the highest air quality in the European Union).
Two new lecture halls on a medical campus outside Stockholm are covered in concrete panels that glow from the inside, thanks to a technique developed by Sweden's Butong.
Can we change the world by bringing people together? Of course, we can. The Technology and Health building in Flemingsberg was built with that very ambition in mind. This is where scientists and students from several universities meet to exchange experiences and knowledge.
A spa with two pools has been completed adjacent to a 1796 mansion in south Sweden.
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. Hovering ten meters above the ground within the tree canopy, the Snøhetta-designed 7th room provides its guests with a...
Erik Giudice Architects was invited to take part in the restricted idea competition for the design of a new station area in Jönköping, Sweden.
White Arkitekter has won an international design competition for Skellefteå’s cultural centre and hotel, which will be completed in 2019. The design was selected from over 55 entries from ten countries.
In the second part of our three-part look at the major components of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, here are a dozen of our favorite National Pavilions from the 65 found in the Giardini, the Arsenale, and beyond.
The Nordic Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale goes by the theme In Therapy: Nordic Countries Face to Face and features a wooden ziggurat that allows visitors to get close to the concrete beams of Sverre Fehn's 1962 masterpiece.
Two years after David Chipperfield Architects, with their "Nobelhuset" entry, won the competition for the Nobel Center in Sweden, the Stockholm City Council has...
Architectural quality and sustainability permeate two rental apartment blocks in solid wood in Fristad, outside Borås in Sweden. The buildings are based on the concept "Wood right through" for the municipal housing company FRIBO.
This new iconic landmark is located on the Chalmers University campus in Gothenburg, Sweden and acts as an incubator for the stimulation of innovations in the construction sector as well as hub for collaboration between private, public and academic sectors.
In 2010, Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects in a team with Skanska, Nordic Choice Hotels Akustikon and SLA won a competition to design the 54,000m2 concert, congress and hotel complex.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced that this year’s winner of the 10 Year Award is Malmö’s Turning Torso, designed by Santiago Calatrava.
Erik Andersson Architects and ELU has been commissioned by the City of Gothenburg to design a new pedestrian bridge, located in the historically important Haga area in Gothenburg, Sweden.
KKA together with Riksbyggen has won a land-use competition in Helsingborg, Sweden. The proposal treated one block in the expanding harbor area Oceanhamnen.
Kjellander + Sjöberg, in collaboration with the developer Byggnadsfirman Erik Wallin, has developed two new buildings in the block Jackproppen, in Hjorthagen, Stockholm, consisting of housing, a playground and a preschool.
The architectural practice Kjellander + Sjöberg has, along with Diligentia, won a land transfer competition in Rosendal with the proposal Woodhouse.
The Kolla School is a playful, inspiring and sustainable school environment centered around the students, with a building volume that is well suited to its purpose and context.
In-between the trunks of the beautiful Öijared forest one can sense a new figure, zigzagging between the trees and blending in with the environment from which it’s made.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Entasis have bested four finalists in the two-stage competition for a tower in Gothenburg, Sweden, that promises to be the tallest in Scandinavia.