Young Danish practice Christensen & Co Architects (CCO) has been announced as winner of an international competition for the new city council building in Lund, Sweden. Transparency, staff/visitor synergy, innovation and sustainability are the key ambitions behind the new city hall due to be…

The City of Stockholm recently opened a public exhibition of the Slussen Master Plan, an ambitious urban design project that seeks to replace much of the degenerated water and transportation infrastructure in the heart of Stockholm. The final plan results from the winning proposal by Foster…

Danish schmidt hammer lassen architects have won a competition for a Congress and Hotel Center on the central harbor front of Helsingborg in Sweden, which is a 15-minute ferry trip from Elsinore in Denmark. The property development competition was won in conjunction with Swedish developer…

Swedish practice Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture (KKA) has been awarded the Scania Region Architecture Prize for their project Mirage. The prize celebrates the best building this year in Sweden’s southern region Scania.

Earlier this fall, the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona presented its awards to a number of international architecture projects that represented excellence according to this year’s theme “Less Does More” (previously on Bustler). One project that has been awarded with a high…

Danish architects BIG, in collaboration with British structural and civil engineering firm AKT, Swedish consultant Tyréns and German climate engineers Transsolar have just been awarded first place in a design competition in Malmø, Sweden for a 100,000 m2 first of its kind…

The Southend-on-Sea Borough Council in Essex, England announced the winner of the Southend Pier Head design contest: renowned Swedish based landscape architecture firm White arkitekter. The company - which has also won awards for other maritime architecture projects throughout the world - clinched the top place with…

In 2006, Frederik Kjellgren and Joakim Kaminsky won the international architecture competition for a new dance hall in Falsterbo, Sweden, and started their studio; Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture. Now the building “Mirage” is to be inaugurated.

The municipality of Helsingborg, Sweden, chose Schønherr Landscape and ADEPT Architects (both from Denmark) as winners of the planning competition of the 100Ha site of H+ in Helsingborg. The competition was invited and included: White architects AB (Sweden), KCAP Architects & planers (the…

Construction has finished on schmidt hammer lassen architects’ striking design for a new District Court in Malmö, Sweden. The completed scheme includes a new 10,000 sq m courthouse adjacent to the existing 3,000 sq m listed court building.