The project for the new home of the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm has gone through a long transformation process that reflects both the institution’s cultural ambition and the complexity of the city’s urban fabric and heritage. David Chipperfield was
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
With its operatic ending immortalized by Giuseppe Verdi, Gustav III of Sweden made an – indirect – contribution to universal music, though the truth is that this enlightened monarch also supported in life the art of Euterpe, promoting the foundation
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
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
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
This project signals the transformation of a former harbor district in the south of the city into the new ecological district of Hammerby Sjöstad. Situated along the western edge of the redevelopment area, south of the bridges over the canal and besi
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
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
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...
Taking inspiration from the palaces in the city, the refurbishment project adds a four-story building and a volume of 2+2 floors, giving it a new image and composition, and replacing the ceramic of the facade with limestone and bronze frames.
The residential development 79th& Park Hillside is next to Gärdet, a treasured national park east of central Stockholm. This area is part of the Royal National City Park, which is a protected green belt with woods, lakes, and open fields of approxima
At a height of 125 and 110 meters, respectively, the Innovationen and Helix towers are the highest residential buildings in Stockholm. Located in Hagastaden, a new district in the north of the capital developed around the Karolinska Institute (which
Inserted into the heart of the campus of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, putting a preexisting courtyard to good use, is this new architecture school building covering a total floor area of 9,140 square meters in six floor level
The exterior facades, continuous and with modular configuration, are clad with burnished tombak, a brass alloy with a high percentage of copper, polished to obtain a shiny finish.
Conceived in the manner of a dollhouse, this building located in the city of Stockholm contains forty-four apartments, distributed in two volumes. Its main points of interest from the point of view of construction are, first, its composition of twent
The sides of the faceted enclosure adjust to the scale of the nearby buildings, generating concave spaces that enhance the surrounding public areas; inside, the auditorium takes up the central space and adapts to a variety of events.
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
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
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)...
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
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
Dentro del Grand Tour de todo arquitecto debería figurar obligatoriamente Estocolmo. Son muchas las lecciones que ofrece esta ciudad, no sólo a través de sus edificios —la biblioteca y el cementerio de Asplund merecerían ya la visita, aunque no se añ
Bilbao and Stockholm are the two poles of an architectural debate that has also emerged in the latest museum projects in New York City.
The new Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm —which will be built according to Rafael Moneo's project— logically stems from the requirements of the program and the location. The new museum complex is situated among the existing buildings and open spaces
Rafael Moneo has just added another success to his long list of achievements: on April 10, his victory in the international competition for a new museum complex in Stockholm was announced. When built, it will be the only building by a Spanish archite
