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Architect: Hans Asplund
Built in: 1957
Client:
Sweden´s newest historical building is the Eslöv Civic Hall (Medborgarhuset), which achieved this status in 2001. In architectural circles the Civic Hall in Eslöv is known as the most ambitious building in Sweden in the post-war period. The Eslöv Civic Hall is one of the most remarkable Modernist buildings in Scandinavia. It was 1947 when the young, newly-qualified architect Hans Asplund´s proposal won the competition to design Eslöv´s Civic Hall, which was built and completed in 1957. The basic idea and the detailing bear the imprint of contemporary international trends and of inspiration from the work of his father, Eric Gunnar Asplund. The Civic Hall is now a meeting place for a wide range of both business and cultural activities. It has been comprehensively restored and its meticulous workmanship, treatment of materials and original color scheme reinstated.
Easy chairs and the table in the picture have also been designed by Asplund.
More of Hans Asplund’s work
one of the beautiful buildings in Stockholm, Sweden
I am not sure what this building is called but it is quite magnificent. The Swedes tend to put statues on the top of buildings, as you see here. The early evening Sun was glinting off the lettering really caught my attention.
Edit- Thanks to +Anita Berglund - It is the "House of Nobility"
Architect: Carl Nyrén, Nyréns Arkitektkontor AB
Built in: 1973-75 (reconstruction 2002-04)
Client: Stockholms stads sparbank
Sparbankshuset was an office building and headquarters for the Swedish bank, Stockholms stads sparbank, now called Swedbank. The headquarter has now moved to Brunkebergstorg, a block away. The main facade overlooking Hamngatan is covered with green-painted aluminum sheet and is characterized by a visible suspension design of sharp steel beams from the roof.
A reconstruction was carried out by Nyréns Arkitektkontor 2002-2004 when a new ventilation system was installed below ground level, which freed the top floor above the projecting office floors. The new floor has been converted to offices and windows have been included in the facade. The new facade design for the top floor has been adapted to the house architecture, with similar horizontal window proportions.
The property was classified in 2007 as one of the most valuable properties in the district, and that the building meets the criteria for historic buildings in the Cultural Heritage Act.
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Architect: PARK Associati and Studio FM Milano
Built in: 2012
Client:
Here is Sweden's national stage for opera and ballet, The Royal Swedish Opera, designed by architect Axel Anderberg and inaugurated in 1898. The building has undergone some minor changes exterior through the years. 1955-1961 a rotunda was built. Architects for this was Peter Celsing and Nils Tesch.
But now the opera has received another extension, this time on the roof. It is "The Cube", a temporary restaurant pavilion that was built on the roof of the Royal Opera. The company Electrolux and the Royal Opera took the initiative to this project.
The restaurant will be available between 18 June and 21 October 2012.
According to the National Property Board, Statens Fastighetsverk (SFV), is it the first time that a historic building in Stockholm has been used in such a way for marketing. The Stockholm Beauty Council, Stockholms Skönhetsråd, did not like the initiative and warned that listed buildings can be advertising spaces for major corporations.
Interviews with the architects behind the idea and the construction of the Cube: The Cube - YouTube
Architect: PARK Associati and Studio FM Milano
Built in: 2012
Client:
Here is Sweden's national stage for opera and ballet, The Royal Swedish Opera, designed by architect Axel Anderberg and inaugurated in 1898. The building has undergone some minor changes exterior through the years. 1955-1961 a rotunda was built. Architects for this was Peter Celsing and Nils Tesch.
But now the opera has received another extension, this time on the roof. It is "The Cube", a temporary restaurant pavilion that was built on the roof of the Royal Opera. The company Electrolux and the Royal Opera took the initiative to this project.
The restaurant will be available between 18 June and 21 October 2012.
According to the National Property Board, Statens Fastighetsverk (SFV), is it the first time that a historic building in Stockholm has been used in such a way for marketing. The Stockholm Beauty Council, Stockholms Skönhetsråd, did not like the initiative and warned that listed buildings can be advertising spaces for major corporations.
Interviews with the architects behind the idea and the construction of the Cube: The Cube - YouTube
Some bad weather today. Had to delay my photo promenade. This was the view just before I decided to go out.
Architect: White Arkitekter
Built in: 2003
Client: White Arkitekter
White Arkitekter is Scandinavia's largest architectural firms with headquarters in Gothenburg. This is their office building in Stockholm.
The company was founded in 1951 in Gothenburg by the architects Sidney White and PA Ekholm. White has since established themselves in Stockholm, Malmö, Halmstad, Linköping, Örebro, Uppsala and Umeå. And currently has offices in Copenhagen and Næstved in Denmark.
Here a model of the building from The Swedish Museum of Architecture.
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Awards
This office building was awarded the Kasper Salin Prize in 2003
The Kasper Salin Prize (Swedish Kasper Salinpriset) is a prize awarded annually by the Swedish Association of Architects to a Swedish building or building project "of high architectural standard". It has been awarded since 1962 and was founded with money from a donation by the city architect of Stockholm Kasper Salin (1856-1919). It is considered the most prestigious architectural prize in Sweden.
Architect: Helge Zimdal
Built in: 1958–1961
Client: Arbetarnas bildningsförbund – ABF (Workers' Educational Association)
The ABF-house is designed by architect Helge Zimdal and inaugurated in 1961. The house was built for the Workers Educational Association, which still uses the house. The building has a complex internal structure with shops and restaurants on the ground floor, and large auditoriums on the first floor. Each year enters about 250 000 people this house to various workshops, courses, conferences, lectures and seminars.
Architect: Rafael Moneo
Built in: 1994-97
Client: Statens Fastighetsverk
“The Swedish Museum of Architecture was established as an independent foundation, initiated by the National Association of Swedish Architects in 1962, and was in 1978 reconstituted as a national authority.
The museum is centrally located on Skeppsholmen in an award-winning building by Rafael Moneo constructed in 1998, and shares entrance with Moderna Museet as part of Moneo’s design for the museum complex. The main objective for The Swedish Museum of Architecture is to illustrate and offer an active platform for architecture, design and sustainable urban development, as well as to care for, list, scientifically process and enhance, through new acquisitions, the collections entrusted to it. The focus on design and sustainable planning were recently emphasized in the extended government directives of 2009.
The museum library and archives are vital parts of the mission to present and access the legacy of Swedish architecture.”
Source: The Swedish Museum of Architecture
The Swedish Museum of Architecture was awarded the Kasper Salin-prize for best architecture in 1998 by The Swedish Association of Architects.
The Kasper Salin Prize (Swedish Kasper Salinpriset) is a prize awarded annually by the Swedish Association of Architects to a Swedish building or building project "of high architectural standard". It has been awarded since 1962 and was founded with money from a donation by the city architect of Stockholm Kasper Salin (1856-1919). It is considered the most prestigious architectural prize in Sweden.
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Built: 2013. BoKlok is affordable homes for ordinary people. The concept is based on large volumes and standardised solutions. The first apartment houses were built 1997 in Sweden. In 2012 more than 5500 apartments at over 150 locations in 5 different countries had been built. The BoKlok Concept is owned jointly by IKEA and the building company Skanska. The housing can be apartment houses, tenant-owners´ societies or terraced houses. The photo shows a part of a tenant-owners´ society with 14 apartments.
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Architect: Gunnar Asplund
Built in: 1940
Client:
The Woodland Crematorium and its three chapels: Faith, Hope and the Holy Cross. Here The Chapel of Faith.
World Heritage
In 1994, the Woodland Cemetery (Skogskyrkogården) was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List of cultural and natural heritage of outstanding universal value. UNESCO’s decision was based on Skogskyrkogården’s qualities as a prominent example of architecture and a twentieth-century cultural landscape being formed into a cemetery. The inscription ensures the preservation and protection of Skogskyrkogården for future generations.
Woodland Cemetery (Skogskyrkogården)
More work by: Gunnar Asplund
Architect: Hans Asplund
Built in: 1957
Client:
Sweden´s newest historical building is the Eslöv Civic Hall (Medborgarhuset), which achieved this status in 2001. In architectural circles the Civic Hall in Eslöv is known as the most ambitious building in Sweden in the post-war period. The Eslöv Civic Hall is one of the most remarkable Modernist buildings in Scandinavia.
It was 1947 when the young, newly-qualified architect Hans Asplund´s proposal won the competition to design Eslöv´s Civic Hall, which was built and completed in 1957. The basic idea and the detailing bear the imprint of contemporary international trends and of inspiration from the work of his father, Eric Gunnar Asplund. The Civic Hall is now a meeting place for a wide range of both business and cultural activities. It has been comprehensively restored and its meticulous workmanship, treatment of materials and original color scheme reinstated.
All decorations, everything from lamps and furniture to the doorknobs and the coffee cups, has Hans Asplund himself designed.
The Civic Hall in Eslöv was rewarded in 2006 with the third prize - a diploma, from EU's cultural heritage organization, Europa Nostra.
More of Hans Asplund’s work
Architect: PARK Associati and Studio FM Milano
Built in: 2012
Client:
Here is Sweden's national stage for opera and ballet, The Royal Swedish Opera, designed by architect Axel Anderberg and inaugurated in 1898. The building has undergone some minor changes exterior through the years. 1955-1961 a rotunda was built. Architects for this was Peter Celsing and Nils Tesch.
But now the opera has received another extension, this time on the roof. It is "The Cube", a temporary restaurant pavilion that was built on the roof of the Royal Opera. The company Electrolux and the Royal Opera took the initiative to this project.
The restaurant will be available between 18 June and 21 October 2012.
According to the National Property Board, Statens Fastighetsverk (SFV), is it the first time that a historic building in Stockholm has been used in such a way for marketing. The Stockholm Beauty Council, Stockholms Skönhetsråd, did not like the initiative and warned that listed buildings can be advertising spaces for major corporations.
Interviews with the architects behind the idea and the construction of the Cube: The Cube - YouTube
Architect: Arthur von Schmalensee (1900-1972) / KF Architects Office, 1930. Iron frame with rendered brick infill. Originally to manufacture light bulbs, now offices and residential. Model by Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Architect: Johan Celsing
Built in: 2011
Client: Enskede-Årsta parish
The church is over-looking Årsta torg (designed by the brothers Erik and Tore Ahlsén in the 1940-ies). The church was built next to an existing bell-tower and a parish building from 1968 designed by Göran Dahlstrand on a rocky site. The church was inaugurated August 21, 2011 by Bishop Eva Brunne.
The structure is of load-bearing red-brown brick. The interior is light with the lower part all clad in white glazed brick. Along the walls is a continuous glazed bench for seating. The roof and ceiling is a perforated concrete slab with beams crossing the church.
“This is not a commercial site, but a place where decisive moments in people's lives often take place, such as weddings and funerals. Therefore I did not want the building to be in the center with a "cool" architecture and take the focus off the rites and meetings that take place inside it.” - Johan Celsing in the magazine Amfi, 2/2011
More pictures of Johan Celsing’s work.
Architect: Helge Zimdal
Built in: 1958–1961
Client: Arbetarnas bildningsförbund – ABF (Workers' Educational Association)
The ABF-house is designed by architect Helge Zimdal and inaugurated in 1961. The house was built for the Workers Educational Association, which still uses the house. The building has a complex internal structure with shops and restaurants on the ground floor, and large auditoriums on the first floor. Each year enters about 250 000 people this house to various workshops, courses, conferences, lectures and seminars.
Vandalorum is a new museum in the middle of the Swedish province Smaland at the town Värnamo by the motorway E4. It was opened in April 2011. It is being built after a concept of the architect Renzo Piano in 1998. The difficulties have been many, at one time there was no money and no art to show, but here it is. The first exhibiton shows bicycles. If you travel by, do visit!
There is a shop, a cafeteria, there will be changing exhibitions, it is a fine place!
Architect: Gunnar Asplund
Built in: 1940
Client:
The Woodland Crematorium and its three chapels: Faith, Hope and the Holy Cross.
World Heritage
In 1994, the Woodland Cemetery (Skogskyrkogården) was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List of cultural and natural heritage of outstanding universal value. UNESCO’s decision was based on Skogskyrkogården’s qualities as a prominent example of architecture and a twentieth-century cultural landscape being formed into a cemetery. The inscription ensures the preservation and protection of Skogskyrkogården for future generations.
Woodland Cemetery (Skogskyrkogården)
More work by: Gunnar Asplund