(News Oresund– flickr/creative commons license) Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects designed the 54,000 m2 Malmo Live complex on Universitetsholmen Malmö. It includes Clarion Hotel, Congress Malmö Live, and a concert hall for 1,500 people. The white hotels soar with a variety …
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(Maria Eklind– flickr/creative commons license) Terroir and Kim Utzon Arkitekter designed the extension to the Swedish Maritime University. This building adds 6,000 sq m of educational space to the university. The design folds the material and gabled roof of the …
(Michael Cavén– flickr/creative commons license) Henning Larsen Tegnestue designed the Uppsala Konsert & Kongress, completed in 2007. The modern, woven outer facade slightly conceals a vast, open interior. At 121ft tall, it has 8 floors and 14,600m2 of space. It …
(kalleboo– flickr/creative commons license) Triangeln station was recently completed in 2010 for the Citytunneln train line in Malmo, Sweden. The entire line cost 8.5B SEK to build. The railway station rises in a warped dome shape, similarly to Canary Wharf …
(iMaffo– flickr/creative commons license) Brutalist architect Peter Celsing designed the House of Culture in central Sweden in 1974. It was considered a symbol of modernism’s capricious intervention in historic areas, mislaid and destructive. It was intended to be a cultural …
(funkjoker– flickr/creative commons license) Architect Erik Lallerstedt designed the original red brick buildings for the Valhallavägen campus including the KTH Biblioteket in 1914. Local artists Carl Milles, Axel Törneman, Georg Pauli, Tore Strindberg and Ivar Johnsson had roles in improving …
(Infomastern– flickr/creative commons license) Santiago Calatrava designed the HSB Turning Torso, a deconstructivist luxury condo skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden, just off the Öresund strait. The design is based on the twisting form of the human body. Stacked sections are connected …
Gunnar Asplund designed the Stockholm Stadsbibliotek, which was completed in 1928. Asplund expanded modern concepts of information sharing as he displayed all the books equally in a rotunda and opened the shelves for convenience of the visitor. The library derives …