scandinavian architecture
Helsinki apartment blocks
In Helsinki a new residential complex is going to emerge on the site of a former power plant, Hanasaari. ALA, the young architecture studio which won the competition, presented a different and daring approach.The terraced blocks have a wave like form that offers almost every apartment a fabulous view toward the sea. Inside their enclosed […]
Sami Parliament competition
The Sami are one of the largest indigenous groups in Europe. The population, estimated at about 85,000, occupies parts of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. Kiruna is one of the Swedish towns built by the sami people and also the place of their new Parliament (in Sweden). The competition […]
Mill house
Constructed as an addition to an old farm house, somewhere near Malmo, this building expresses the Swedish conception of a small vacation house, which must include a sauna. Using his conception that buildings should respect the surrounding nature, Gert Wingardh creates not only a house, but an entire scenario which makes our mind flow to […]
Kajplats, Malmo – Swedish living concepts
When Malmo became only a bridge and a tunnel away from Copenhagen, it started to develop rapidly. Investors saw the opportunity of financing large scale housing projects (for the inhabitants of Copenhagen interested of escaping the big city), the Calatrava’s Turning Torso being the most daring of all. But it wasn’t the only one. The […]
Building Nothing
When asked to design an exhibition pavilion for the Swiss Expo 2002, the New York studio Diller & Scofidio came with a most unlikely solution: making nothing. So they decided, they would create, on the Neuchatel Lake, a “formless, massless, colorless, weightless, odorless, scaleless, […]
