Tag: Sweden
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Malmhattanism
The following is a short intro to my book Malmhattanism, published by Nordic Academic Press in 2021 and currently only available in Swedish. Some of the content has appeared in English previously (here & here). I plan to translate some passages from the book and post them here in the future. Malmö is Sweden’s third…
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WAUA returns
After a brief hiatus (9 ½ years), I have decided to resuscitate this blog. The world has changed since the last time I blogged, as has the small and idiosyncratic world of architectural blogging. Clicking through my ‘blogroll’ from last time around, one might think that some unknown cataclysmic event put all architecture blogs into…
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Tax-optimised Architecture
image copyright Rossanna Bartoli The relationship between architecture and property taxation is a territory that is largely unexplored as far as I know. A few attempts are made to create tax incentives, primarily to create walkable neighbourhoods or to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency. There is, however, an entirely different side of architecture influenced…
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Stealth architecture
I walked by this interesting and charming residential building in northern Berlin the other day. It turns out it was designed by Brandt und Simon Architekten, who incidentally also designed my local bar, Kohlenquelle which, to be perfectly honest, I up to now suspected had never been designed at all. The striking feature of the…
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Swedish anxiety
-Most links in this post link to websites in Swedish- In recent years, almost every medium- to large-scale urban project in Stockholm has been subject to such massive public and professional resistance that in the end, the projects have been abandoned. Naturally, this situation is not unique to Sweden or Stockholm, but it has reached…
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Gormley and Chipperfield at Kivik Art Centre
Anthony Gormley and David Chipperfield have together designed a pavilion at Kivik Art Centre in the south Swedish countryside. It is the first collaborative project between the artist and the architect and consists of three concrete volumes of 100 cubic meters each; the cave, the stage and the tower. The cave, at the bottom, is…