Slussporten
Slussporten is a restaurant and bar beneath Guldbron at Slussen in central Stockholm, developed for Nobis as part of the area's transformation into a new public waterfront. The project occupies one of two glass pavilions introduced in Foster + Partners' masterplan, connecting Södermalm and Gamla Stan through a renewed public realm. A self-supporting glass enclosure positioned beneath the bridge creates a room suspended between infrastructure, water and city life.
A room between two waters
For centuries, Slussen has been a site of crossings over water — a place where routes, levels and flows are continuously reworked. In its latest transformation, the masterplan by Foster + Partners shifts the site from a traffic system into a public landscape. A new bridge spans the junction, its yellow-toned steel structure — known locally as Guldbron — cutting a clear horizontal line between Södermalm and Gamla Stan.
In the same gesture, the masterplan introduced two glass volumes beneath the bridge, both designed by Wingårdhs for Nobis, which is both client and owner. Slussporten is one of these two buildings.
It sits directly beneath the bridge, close to the water and open towards Vattentorget. The project is defined by a self-supporting glass enclosure: the glass façade meets the underside of the bridge without merging with it, forming a controlled gap that lets the building and the infrastructure above remain independent. This separation defines the interior.
The space is organised into three zones — the Gold Bar, the Food Bar and the Dining Room. A wall clad in Italian glass mosaic runs through the restaurant as a collage of green motifs, reflecting light and revealing variation across the space, while timber floorboards in an oversized herringbone pattern form the base of the interior.
"Everything is close-knit — a place to meet, gather, and linger. The proximity to the kitchen creates an immediate connection to the activity, while movement, reflections and people overlap throughout the space. Here, you sit as close to the outside as possible. The ambition is to create a Stockholm classic — durable, relevant and resilient, while unmistakably of its time."
— Helena Toresson & Sara Helder
