Architecture in Sweden
We've selected what we feel are the key examples of Swedish Architecture. We aim to include projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.
We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and competitions across Sweden. The focus is on contemporary Swedish buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.
We have 4 pages of Swedish Architecture selections with links to many individual project pages.
Swedish Architecture : news + key projects (this page)
Swedish Building Developments : A-H
Swedish Buildings : I-O
Swedish Building Designs : P-Z
Swedish Architecture Walking Tours
Stockholm Architecture Tours : launched by e-architect. 14 Jun 2012
Swedish Architecture News
Swedish Architecture News arranged chronologically:
Triangeln Station, Malmo, south west Sweden
Design: Sweco Architects AB + KHR Arkitekter
photo : Felix Gerlach
Triangeln Station Building - 10 Apr 2013
This new building has given Malmö a unique new regional and commuter train station in the heart of the city. The number of travellers per day has been estimated to 37,000, making it Sweden’s third busiest railway station.
Nobel Center in Stockholm - Architecture Contest Sweden
Architects Shortlist News
photo : Jeppe Wikström
Nobel Center Building in Sweden - 26 Mar 2013
During the winter there has been a selection process to choose the architects who will be invited to participate in the planned architectural competition to design a Nobel Center at Blasieholmen in Stockholm. In total, over 140 architects have been considered by a specially appointed evaluation committee. Of these, 12 have been selected to be invited to the architectural competition.
Helsingborg Hospital Building, south west Sweden
Design: schmidt hammer lassen
image from architect
Hospital Building Sweden - 21 Mar 2013
schmidt hammer lassen architects has won the competition to design the 35,000 square metre extension to the Helsingborg Hospital in the southern part of Sweden. The competition was won in cooperation with Aarhus Arkitekterne, NNE Pharmaplan and landscape architects Kragh & Berglund.
European Spallation Source Building, Lund, southern Sweden - winners
Design: Henning Larsen Architects, COBE and SLA
picture from architects
European Spallation Source Building - 3 Mar 2013
International design competition for the ESS, which will become the world's largest and most advanced facility for neutron-based research. The team also includes the engineering companies Buro Happold, NNE Pharmaplan and Transsolar.
Tree Hotel, north east Sweden
Rintala Eggertsson Architects
image from architect
Tree Hotel Sweden
Cultural Centre and Library in Karlshamn, southern Sweden
Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects
picture from architects
Cultural Centre and Library in Karlshamn - 25 Jan 2013
The New Cultural Centre and Library in Karlshamn, Sweden, is designed to gather the city’s cultural functions under one roof. schmidt hammer lassen architects has just won an international competition to design this 5,000 square metre cultural centre. Karlshamn will get a sculptural and flexible building containing a library, an exhibition area, a cinema, a tourist office and a café. It will be the city’s new meeting place and will embrace diversity.
Kloster Houses, western Sweden
Architect: Torsten Ottesjö
image © Christian Stromqvist
Kloster Properties - 14 Dec 2012
Residences located on a strip of land on the west coast of Sweden designed by Torsten Ottesjö. He selectively cut trees from the landscape to create a vision for what the rolling southern ends of the scandinavian fjords could look like. He wanted to open up the landscape to provide an experience, to selectively allow trees to flourish to over time create a place which accentuated the rolling characteristic of the landscape.
Lilla Bommen, Gothenburg, south west Sweden
Design: Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture
image from Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture
Lilla Bommen Gothenburg - 19 Oct 2012
Redevelopment of a centrally located site in Göteborg. The commission was to develop the future empty site remaining from the planned demolishing of the old bridge Göta älvbron. Sustainable features of the buildings include creating a car-free, new green axis through the existing traffic-machine that dominates the centrally located site, plus introduction of elements such as green roofs.
Sven-Harry’s Art Museum, Stockholm, eastern Sweden
Architect: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB
photograph : Tord-Rickard Söderström
Sven-Harry’s Art Museum - 10 Aug 2012
The vertical museum is a city type. In urban situations are collections connected by stairs, elevators and escalators. It is an effect of density, but also a way to create sequences in the exhibition with the natural boundaries of the building. The top and the ground floor do have a significant importance in every building; exhibitions emphasises these dynamics of access and secrecy. The section thru Sven-Harry’s with commercial activities on the ground floor, the collection in the penthouse and the art hall in the core of building follow this typology.
Tåkern Visitor Centre, Östergötland, eastern Sweden
Architect: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB
photograph : Åke E:son Lindman
Tåkern Visitor Centre - 10 Aug 2012
All the way out where the forest ends and the reeds begin, a visitor center hovers low on piles set carefully into the water’s edge. The building is clad in thatch, camouflaged like a birdwatcher’s blind, hiding its contents from the natural world that surrounds it. This is quiet architecture, using traditional local materials to break new ground with its crystalline geometry. Steep roofs transition seamlessly into walls. The steep pitch gives them longevity. The ridge, where a thatched roof is most vulnerable, is transformed into a glazed skylight.
Hen House Building, western Sweden
Architect: Torsten Ottesjö
photograph © David Relan
Swedish Hen House Building - 13 Jun 2012
HönsHus-1 is a wooden hens house designed and built by Torsten Ottesjö situated on the West coast of Sweden. It rests on a framework of steel legs drilled into rock. The house was designed to mimic the way a mother hen spreads her wings to protect her young. It is perched on a rock slope overlooking an inlet and allows its current feathered residents a sea view.
Domkyrkoforum Visitor Centre, Lund, south west Sweden
Carmen Izquierdo
photograph : Åke E:son Lindman
Domkyrkoforum Visitor Centre
The new Domkyrkoforum visitor centre, facing the Cathedral in the Swedish city of Lund, uses Aurubis Architectural’s Nordic Brass panels to create a series of contemporary forms, generating new vistas and public spaces within its historic setting.
Spira Performing Arts Center, Jönköping, southern Sweden
Wingårdh Arkitektkontor
photograph : Ulf Celander
Spira Performing Arts Center - 13 + 12 Apr 2012
Spira has four different performing arts venues: a main concert hall that seats 910, a 450-seat theater, a 200-seat black box, and a 200-seat café stage. The building is situated on an artificial peninsula jutting out into Lake Munksjön, right in the center of downtown Jönköping.
Victoria Tower, Kista, Stockholm, eastern Sweden
Wingårdh Arkitektkontor
photograph : Tord-Rickard Söderström
Swedish Skyscraper Building - 28 Mar 2012
Wrapped entirely in a cloak of glass, Victoria Tower stands like a lighthouse along the road between downtown Stockholm and the city’s airport. The 117.6-meter tower is marker for the Kista IT office park and for the conference center at the base of the tower, and a manifestation of the area’s high-tech profile.
Swedish Architecture - Recent Designs
Uppsala University Building, eastern Sweden
3XN architects
image from architects
Uppsala University Building - 23 Feb 2012
Uppsala University has more than 500 years’ of history and thus is one of Sweden’s most established institutions, complete with traditions and an esteemed regard. At the same time, the University is known as a modern institution for world class research and higher education. Thus, the vision for the new University Building is to bridge the past and the future by creating synergy between location, expression and layout.
Klevens Udde, Smögen, south west Sweden
Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB
photograph : Tenjin Visuals AB
Klevens Udde - 24 Jan 2012
The Kleven area comprises three home types, but many individuals. The largest and most prominent are the triangular houses along the ridge of the promontory overlooking the sea. The somewhat smaller row houses are cut from a different cloth. The third building type is found closest to the pier.
Swedish Architecture Awards 2011
Winning Buildings + Architects
picture from Swedish Architects Association
Skipark 360°
C. F. Møller Architects | Berg Arkitektkontor
picture : C. F. Møller Architects
Skipark 360°
Swedish Architects
Swedish Office Buildings
Modern Swedish Architecture from 20th century linked further down page
Architecture in Sweden
Buildings / Designs in Sweden, alphabetical:
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