The transformation of Nāst Hill Workspace in Torslanda is one of four finalists for the Per and Alma Olsson Award for Gothenburg’s Best Building of the Year.

Eight houses, one coastline and the people who live in them. The new book follows a road trip through Wingårdhs’ work along Sweden’s west coast. Published by Bokfabriken on 25 September 2026..

Drivbänken has been awarded the Malmö City Planning Award 2026. We are extremely proud and delighted. The award has been presented since 1982. This year, 73 projects were nominated, with three selected as finalists: Drivbänken, ETC Hyllie and Solidar.

Viared Center brings offices, services and shared spaces to a growing business district west of Borås. Its timber structure and glazed façade give the building a character that goes beyond what is usually expected of a commercial building.

Drivbänken is one of three finalists for Malmö City's Stadsbyggnadspris (Urban Development Award) 2026..

Consumption patterns in transformation at Varvsstaden is a Vinnova-funded project led by Wingårdhs in collaboration with Varvsstaden AB, Circue and Finn Ahlgren.

On October 3, Gothenburg Open Office takes place on the initiative of Röhsska Museum, in collaboration with the Swedish Association of Architects Västra Götaland and Chalmers.

The jury's citation: "With transparency as its guiding principle, the project has made a point of sharing knowledge that benefits the industry as a whole — even with competitors. In doing so, significant innovations such as transparent solar cells, reused sandwich panels, and a shared geothermal energy plant have been carried forward and developed further by others. The winner in the Hotel and Office category of Årets Bygge (Building of the Year) 2025 is Fyrtornet."

Photo: Wingårdhs

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We are proud and honoured to have been part of the team awarded Täby stadsbyggnadspris (Täby Urban Development Award) 2024.

This year marks 25 years since the Swedish Embassy in Berlin was inaugurated, standing side by side with its Nordic neighbours.

We are incredibly proud that the office building at Östra Strandgatan 24 in Umeå has achieved Miljöbyggnad Guld (Environmental Building Gold) certification!

The building is located between central Umeå and the University City, in a calm setting with a fantastic view over the Ume River. The development is part of the overarching vision of tying the city together — connecting the riverside area with the city centre and further out towards Östra Station and the university.

The building's high sustainability profile, combined with expressive architecture, shows that it is possible to build in a way that is modern, attractive and sustainable all at once.

A few success factors:

A well-considered mix of structural materials built around a cross-laminated timber (CLT) system, giving the building its strong formal expression while reducing the climate impact of production.

A smart design that both protects against the sun and doubles as façade, providing a superior indoor environment while preserving good views even in strong sunlight.

Innovative solutions for energy efficiency and environmental protection.

Flexibility in the floor plans, allowing a mix of large and small tenants while also increasing the building's lifespan and reducing its environmental impact over time.

An interior dominated by natural materials such as stone and wood.

But the greatest success factor was integrating sustainability solutions into the building's overall concept from the start. Ongoing calculations and measures helped us stay focused, combined with excellent collaboration between all parties involved.

Many thanks to everyone involved!

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The vision for Embassy of Sharing is to create an inclusive and forward-thinking environment for collaboration and knowledge exchange — a unique meeting place for all of Malmö.

An extensive timber structure combined with advanced technical solutions makes Fyrtornet an example of good architecture with a low climate footprint, and one of the first buildings to fall below LFM30's threshold values, in line with the Paris Agreement's goal of net-zero CO2 emissions by 2030.

Now, at last, it's time for the building to fill with people and bring the urban space to life. Commercial activity is mixed with culture and a library, which together with a public foyer create encounters between different groups.

For more information and press inquiries, contact Pål Ericksson at pal.ericksson@wingardhs.se

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Topasen 3 is part of central Täby Park — a rapidly growing district just north of Stockholm. The area is being transformed from a former horse racing track into a modern district that combines urban life with proximity to nature.

More than 200 new homes, in the form of apartments and urban townhouses, are now ready to be filled with everyday life in the new neighbourhood. The architecture blends modern and timeless elements, offering housing types suited to a broad demographic.

We are proud and pleased to have taken part in a project marked by innovation and learning, where rational modular construction is combined with architectural quality, rich detailing and solid materials. We are even more pleased to contribute good residential qualities to a place that offers a harmonious balance between the pulse of the city and the calm of nature.

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Titania AB, Täby kommun (the Municipality of Täby), Niklas Carlén

The exhibition 'The Great Repair Moves North' at Form/Design Center in Malmö sheds light on the tension between ecological balance and unchecked growth, advocating for a new architectural ethos centred on repair.

Wingårdhs and Skanska have been commissioned, together with the City, to develop the planned multi-sport building in the northern part of the area.

"We are now strengthening the Stadium area's position not only as the obvious centre of sport in Malmö, but also nationally. The new multi-sport building now taking shape will play a major role in the future of the area and of Malmö, and will become a house of sport for generations of Malmö residents who want to realise their dreams," says Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh (S), Chair of the Malmö City Executive Board.

The building will include, among other things, a full-size football pitch, a basketball hall, training facilities, a gym, concept housing, teaching facilities for an upper secondary school, and office space.

For many years, the Stadium area has been an important site for sport, education and events in Malmö. Today, close to 80 associations, sports federations, school activities and sport-related businesses are represented in the area. The new multi-sport building is expected to be completed as early as 2027.

"We are pleased and proud to be working on a building that will mean a great deal to the people of Malmö in the future," says Joakim Lyth, architect at Wingårdhs. "The multi-sport building becomes a new landmark, meeting both the scales and forms of its surroundings in an undulating shape. The design draws on the best qualities of the three surrounding districts, each with its own distinctly Malmö character."

From a distance, it reads as a sculptural solitaire — a new icon building for the Stadium area. Up close, it is a sensory building with warm materials, its design ensuring that, despite its size and long façades, it contributes to street life through its variation, openness and attention to everyday use.

The exterior design concept is built on a clear division between the sharp, white silhouette above and the stable base meeting the ground below — two different logics and needs united in a whole with a clear formal language.

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I Gothia Towers nya hotellrum står hållbarhet och tidlös design med långsiktiga värden i fokus.

Trakt Forest Hotel is a destination where guests get close to both Småland and nature. The project could now be honoured with Glaspärlan (the Glass Pearl Award) 2024, which recognises Sweden's best glass building project.

The multi-family building in solid timber, with a cedar-clad façade, has advanced in one of Sweden's most renowned architecture competitions.

In Malmö, Droppen is taking shape with a reused façade. Wanda Zubillaga of Wingårdhs shares insights into the architectural solution and the importance of cross-industry collaboration for a green transition in the construction sector.

Liljevalchs+ has been shortlisted for the prestigious Mies van der Rohe Award, the EU Mies Award, and is one of 40 buildings to advance in the 2024 competition for Europe's finest buildings.

In the middle of an industrial area outside Borås, an architectural landmark and social meeting point for the local community suddenly rises up.

The Gröna samband project has a strong sustainability focus and covers 26,000 square metres, including facilities for both primary and specialist care as well as a café, pharmacy and open pre-school.

The green and white, locally produced bespoke floor tiles visualize the core of Wingårdhs’ and Nobis’ collaborations. With equal amounts guts and respect, historic buildings are salvaged and given a new life. This time, a former soap factory has been turned into a hotel, right where the Old Town of Palma meets vibrant Santa Catalina – and it does not look like anything else.

In the continued collaboration between Wingårdhs and Nobis Hospitality Group, an old soap factory is given new life as a hotel. Located where the traditional Old Town meets vibrant Santa Catalina, a 16th century building has taken the step into the present.

The airport hotel will be the second of its kind in Sweden

The future of Gothenburg's Fish Harbor is a destination, for the industry and visitors alike

Through 50 new projects, the interview book presents a company firmly determined to lead the ecological as well as the social revolution

Wingårdhs and AIA Architecture are jointly competing for the commission to renovate and design an addition to Musee des Tissus et des Arts Decoratif in Lyon.

A generous bar in the heart of the NK department store with an interior custom designed by Förster and Wingårdhs. A dark green base blossoms with the lemon-yellow hues of the Amalfi Coast.

The building lies at Kungsgatan 10A in downtown Gothenburg, a stone’s throw from Fiskekyrkan and Järntorget. Wingårdhs has been headquartered here since the late 1980s. The office is now adding another floor, which we’re calling Street Level.

In the heart of Malmö stands Sweden’s first skyscraper – Gängtappen. The building has also become known for its characteristic triangular form. It was once home to the headquarters for Kockums shipyard, and recently Media Evolutions City moved in.

49 Rue de Saintonge in Paris’s 3rd arrondissement. The heart of the Marais district. This is the start of a new collaboration between the Swedish bag brand Sandqvist and Wingårdhs’s interior design team.

Twenty windows stand guard over the transit station, looking out in five directions like the eyes of watchful cats. A secure building with no back side alertly watching over the place.

– Almost every building we have designed has had its own theme song. Classic, acoustic and totally synthetic, we see the importance of diversity in all cultural expressions – everything can bloom! And that our butterfly wing can contribute to this in the middle of the cultural outpost of Way Out West, Gothenburg feels fantastic, says Gert Wingårdh.

With one foot in the artistic neighborhood of Vasastaden and the other in youthful, emerging Hagastaden, Blique by Nobis is located right in the heart of Stockholm. The aspiration is to bring the two districts together and create a gathering place for creative meetings and events.

It has the comfort of an easy chair and the lightness of a chair – we’re calling it Viva. Designed to live a long life, the chair is the latest in the line of furniture that has been developed in collaboration with furniture manufacturer Gärsnäs.

The collaboration between Nobis Hospitality Group and Wingårdhs continues. This year our third hotel project together will be ready to receive its first guests.

The series is called Crow, and it includes two mirrors and a number of hangers designed to be used either in hotel rooms or in the home.

Together with the developer JR Kvartersfastigheter, Wingårdh Architects is designing the Gläntan district along the Falsterbo Canal in the town of Vellinge.

An architecture firm, a construction company, and a property developer with a common vision: to create artistically architectural environments that are also cost-effective.

Today Architects Sweden announced the nominations for the 2018 Kasper Salin Prize, and two of the four are Wingårdh projects.

“It is both a great honor and incredibly gratifying that we got these nominations,” says Gert Wingårdh. “Malmö Saluhall and Nationalmuseum are two separate projects with several similarities. We were given the task of refining and renovating on both projects, and both have been big successes with the public. It’s particularly rewarding to see that visitors are coming in—they’re the ones we’re designing for. I’m both happy and proud.”

Nationalmuseum, on Blasieholmen in Stockholm, was designed by Berlin architect Friedrich August Stüler, and his original drawings were the basis for a collaborative effort between Wingårdh and architect Erik Wikerstål to open up, restore, and modernize the building. Since the museum reopened in October 2018 it has attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors and received several honors.

The old freight warehouse west of Malmö Central Station was no more than a roofless shell when the siblings Nina Totté Karyd and Martin Karyd bought it for the purpose of creating a market hall. In 2013 they hired Wingårdh Architects to transform the ruin into a marketplace for about twenty merchants and restaurateurs.

“The fact that the market hall has been nominated shows that a building’s design and function play a significant role in the city,” says Maria Lyth, Wingårdh’s lead architect on the project. “The market hall gives the city more than just a popular building; it has also created new public spaces in a formerly abandoned area. Together with Nina and Martin and the stakeholders in the building we’ve been able to create a new destination in Malmö. We got to bring the clients’ dream to life, which has been so much fun.”

Every year Architects Sweden awards the Kasper Salin Prize to a Swedish building or group of buildings of high architectural quality. Wingårdh Architects has been nominated thirteen times and won the prize on five of those occasions.

The winner will be announced at the organization’s Architecture Gala on March 19.

The proposal adds more than sixty new housing units to the town of Ängelholm on Sweden’s southwest coast. The vision is for the entire block to become a symbol for exemplary mixed-use development and a green link to Rönne Creek.

Stools, tables, and a sofa. Wingårdhs is now expanding their collaboration with the Bosnian furniture-maker Zanat. Like the other products in the Tattoo series, the Tattoo Chair is built on genuine craftsmanship and offers several choices of material, color, and decorative flourishes.

"A masterpiece where the stone is both a bearer of history and guides the museum into the future", says jury chairman Kai Marklin.

It all began as a joint project but culminated in two interrelated collections. Wingårdh chose leather, Ingegerd Råman chose paper. Now the product of their collaboration is being manufactured in Småland County by Örsjö Lighting.

The prize for the Concrete Architects of the Year is awarded by Betong (Concrete) magazine, and this year the honor goes to Gert Wingårdh and Erik Wikerstål for their work with Nationalmuseum’s new service building.

This is the third volume in the series of books on Wingårdh’s single-family homes. This time the focus is on the Hansson house. It was to be something completely new, something never before seen. But the young architect was completely untested and terribly short of knowledge. The table was set for a total catastrophe.

It’s the debut of a new podcast The Planet (Planeten). The first episode of the podcast deals with a highly topical issue: architecture in the age of neo-conservatism. Why do people get so angry at architecture?

“The sea is a precondition for life on earth,” says Gert Wingårdh, principal architect for a shimmering blue building meant to serve as a hub for the United Nations initiative Our Ocean, Our Future: Call for Action, and a manifestation of the political momentum that has developed for saving the world’s seas.

The two architecture firms of Wingårdh and Wikerstål were jointly commissioned to plan the comprehensive renovation of Nationalmuseum in 2012, and the following year the building closed and the reconstruction began. The architects’ brief was to create a museum that would be functional over the long term.

Is an architect an artist? Gert Wingårdh looks up the word on Swedish Wikipedia, and eight categories of artistic practice are listed. There is no mention of architects. The search continues.

The hotel at Nybrokajen 9 has a long history of late nights and early mornings. In the early twentieth century one could run into movie stars like Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman in the bar there, and in the late sixties it was home to Sweden’s first international nightclub, Alexandra’s. Today, over a hundred years after it first opened, the hotel has a newly tailored suit and is once again ready to dance.

Is an architect an artist? Gert Wingårdh looks up the word on Swedish Wikipedia, and eight categories of artistic practice are listed. There is no mention of architects.

In the book, Gert and Karin Wingårdh answer questions about various kinds of building projects based on Kristina’s House, a single-family home outside of Gothenburg.

Wingårdh Architects and AART Architects will work together to design the new Hedda Andersson Secondary School in Lund.

Wingårdh Architects and the Umestan 12 office park have won the award for Sweden’s best glass building.

On Friday, March 16, the Nobis Hotel will open its new restaurant, Noi. “We’ve designed almost everything in the restaurant—banquettes, tables, buffet counters, host station, and more,” says Sara Helder, an interior designer at Wingårdh Architects. “But we haven’t just thrown all the old things away; we chose to preserve parts of the existing interior.”

“An acclaimed chef, an award-winning bartender, a Norwegian hotelier and Sweden’s only sake sommeliers are just some of the ingredients that have come together to create Stockholm’s latest hotspot.” Thus begins Wallpaper*’s description of a new restaurant designed by Wingårdh Architects. Today the magazine selected Tak for shared honors in the category of Best New Restaurant in its 2018 Design Awards.

SEB’s new office building in Arenastaden in Solna is this year’s winner of the Sweden’s Best-Looking Office competition. “We may have never had a bigger challenge than the one we faced in trying to create, together with SEB, a future-proofed workplace for a staff of 4500.” Thus began Wingårdh Architects their explanation of why this particular office deserved to win the award.

“In a bold and confident way, and with a built-in faith in man’s inner power, this project creates the conditions for unexpected meetings.” The City of Malmö’s design jury has awarded The Embassy of Sharing, designed by Midroc Property Development and Wingårdh Architects, first place in the land allocation agreement competition for the last downtown lot in the city’s Hyllie district.

Today the Nobis Hotel opens in Copenhagen after a comprehensive renovation of the entire building by Wingårdh Architects. The interior design is a balance between preservation and innovation. The result is a hotel in which freestanding and custom-designed furniture feature prominently.

Wingårdh Architects took first place in Castellum’s architectural competition to design a new office building for the Krokslätt factory district in Gothenburg. The focus of the winning submission was to make the most of the building volume, strengthen the identity of the place, and strive for improved sustainability.

The hotel on the Nybroviken waterfront was designed for the Olympic Games of 1912, and ever since it has been a home away from home for both movie stars and club kids. A little more than a century later, Wingårdh Architects was commissioned to tailor a new wardrobe for the interior of the building. Today is the opening of the hotel’s restaurant, The Strand, with the rest of the building expected to be completed in the spring of 2018.

The old former freight warehouse west of Malmö’s Central Station was no more than a shell without a roof when the siblings Nina Totté Karyd and Martin Karyd bought it to create a new market hall. Four years later it has become a culinary destination and a gathering place for the city. Today the market hall was crowned the winner of Malmö’s Urban Design Award.

Today construction began on the addition to Liljevalchs Konsthall in Stockholm. The project began with an international architectural competition in 2013, and the building will be completed in 2020. It has been designed by the architect Gert Wingårdh in collaboration with artist Ingegerd Råman.