White - Experiences

A proud, beautiful box filled with future promise

16:03, Mon 15 November

The first new school of architecture in Sweden since 1964. An assignment that comes with obligations. Creating a school of architecture for the future and, at the same time, a hothouse for genuinely innovative architecture. By means of close, equitable team work with Henning Larsen Architects, we have created a proud, beautiful box filled with the prerequisites for a brighter future.

A vibrant meeting-place filled with activities

09:40, Tue 24 August

The long pier at Southend-on-Sea in England is a historic landmark that is to be transformed into a modern meeting-place with an environmental profile. A vibrant place filled with activities.

Where shining new stars can be born

15:08, Thu 05 August

The new House of Youth, called The Satellite, in Sollentuna is an arena to make young people more interested in sports and culture. Or to just hang around with their frinds. A place where shining new stars can be born.

Magical destination with high eco-profile

11:28, Mon 14 September

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.

The art of balancing over a classic suburb

10:33, Thu 27 August

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.

Unique process creating New Karolinska Solna

11:58, Wed 12 November

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.

Geological surgery uncovers a world heritage secret

11:19, Wed 05 March

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.

From mould to Greek meatballs

10:58, Wed 05 March

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

Open closed care

10:58, Wed 05 March

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.

Fredrik’s seaside bathing platform making waves around the world

11:19, Wed 05 March

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 future is spinning around Navet’s tip

11:18, Wed 05 March

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).

Kicked in the door to the future

10:31, Fri 07 March

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.