Kosterhavet will be Sweden’s first marine national park. The heart of the site is a self-sufficient new building from an energy perspective that exists in symbiosis with the sea.
In 2015, Stockholm and Sweden will have one of the world’s leading university hospitals, in the shape of the New Karolinska Solna. We were awarded the commission to design the new hospital in the face of stiff competition. However, White is also playing a key role in the unique working process that in future could lead the way internationally.
In the middle of all the town planning and urban landscapes, we work on assignments that have the odour of forest and moss. Architecture with nature as the client, is how we refer to this. We have created a number of ‘nature centres’ for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. The High Coast nature centre is the latest project to be completed – a building that is at one with nature, wedged into the bedrock as if it has always been there.
We believed that we were radical. Innovative. Employed an environmental and integrated approach. Then we kicked in open doors. We were startled and happily surprised. We saw that our ideas were around back in the 1970s. Good, we thought. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Just make it better and more beautiful. And that is what we did.
Vällinby Centre was inaugurated in 1954. A half-century's worth of wear
and tear and tough competition had mad a rejuvenation necessary.
Vällingby City has recieved a significant facelift with White as the
responible planning architect.
Søbadet in Copenhagen is probably the most written about bathing platform of our time. It has probably also attracted more attention in both the architectural press and travel magazines than just about any other White project. But the architect behind it is still yet to take the leap from his own trampoline.
The transformation from heavy industrial site to creative IT cluster has greatly influenced the development of Göteborg over the past 25 years. White has played a prominent role in this conversion, the heart of which being Navet (the Hub).
Mould and damp forced a Danish comprehensive school to undergo total renovation. Thanks to the architect’s flash of genius, teaching was able to continue as normal despite the renovation – and the local authority also saved a great deal of money. The result was new, airy architecture and a better indoor climate
Hammarby Sjöstad is Stockholm’s largest urban development project in our time, a city district that, when completed, will be home to 20,000 inhabitants in 9,000 apartments. We have been involved in the area since its inception at the end of the 1980s, and it has become an international role model in the fields of the environment and sustainable development.
Closed psychiatric departments have locked doors. That is unavoidable. But it does not mean that they need to have a heavy, institutional feel. The opposite is actually a precondition for achieving successful care. When we designed Östra Hospital’s new psychiatric care unit, we worked on the basis of the patient’s wellbeing, with the aim of creating a free, open atmosphere, free from associations with compulsion and power.