KS opens new office in Malmö

Kjellander Sjöberg is proud to establish a new branch in Malmö!

The practice has won several competitions and is continuously receiving more architectural and urban planning commissions in the Öresund region, therefore the time has come for the Stockholm based architects to open up the doors to a new office on Saltimporten in Malmö.

Malmö is an important city due to its strategic urban visions and its explicit focus on quality in architecture and urban design. KS is impressed by the city’s expansion and the energy with which the city addresses current issues concerning social opportunities, sustainable development and the focus on creating an interconnected city, which provides a higher quality of life for all citizens.

We look forward to a successful collaboration Malmö!

KS’s project in Tyresö has won

New collaboration between KS and Tobin Properties

Kjellander Sjöberg’s commission for designing a new housing project by the golf course in Tyresö, proceeds in collaboration with Tobin Properties.

Tyresö is an expansive area with a wealth of natural landscapes and coastline; with excellent public transport and road connections to central Stockholm. Here, in one of the area’s most attractive locations, KS and Tobin Properties develop a new, exciting, mixed urban scheme. A series of residential blocks with varied facade expressions are proposed next to Tyresö Golf Club, set around a small local street and green courtyards. The buildings along the golf course are interconnected with the green golf landscape and its related activities. Each floor and housing block will offer flats of varying sizes, respectively. Innovative floorplans and lush balconies, offering views of the landscape, characterize the project throughout.

The Educator of the Year 2014

Kjellander Sjöberg appointed Educator of the year 2014

The Swedish Association of Architects presented five awards at the annual Architecture Gala 2014. These were received by architects and others who have put in an extra effort to improve the world (around them). Kjellander Sjöberg was appointed as the Educator of the year 2014 for the collegial discussion platform Think Tank. Delighted and honoured by the award, we feel very encouraged to continue our efforts! Keep an eye out on our website and Facebook page for upcoming events in 2015.

The jury evaluation for the Educator of the Year:
A generous and collegial platform for current and interesting discussions about the city, people, space and architecture. Open to everyone and a key motor and driving force to the architectural and social discourse in Sweden. Sharing is caring! The award for the Educator of the year goes to Kjellander Sjöberg’s Think Tank.

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1st prize for Woodhouse Rosendal

The utilised block!

The architectural practice Kjellander Sjöberg has, along with Diligentia, won a land transfer competition in Rosendal with the proposal Woodhouse. The project comprises 100 innovative housing units, using passive-house techniques around a community-minded, green and vivid courtyard. The proposal consists of buildings in solid timber with the theme: “The able and variable neighbourhood”.

Woodhouse Rosendal is the result of a close collaboration between the property developer Diligentia, URBIO landscape architects, Aton Technology & energy consultants and RENEWINN timber consultants.

Uppsala Municipality’s vision for the emerging neighbourhood of Rosendal, in the southern parts of Uppsala, near Akademiska Sjukhuset, is of an exciting and vibrant urban environment with innovative solutions for sustainability, urban life and architecture.

KS’s winning proposal occupies the largest competition area, A1, by the area’s new square, Halltorget. Woodhouse is based on the fundamental concept of sustainable lifestyle with high quality of life, excellent architecture and urban design which generates new experiences.

First prize – Trädgårdsstaden

Land transfer competition in Helsingborg settled

KS’s proposal Trädgårdsstaden has won the land transfer competition for Ringstorp in Helsingborg, issued by the municipality of Helsingborg, with developers Sundprojekt and Strabag. The project will now proceed and obtain development rights, based on the current DDP from 2010. (Gamla staden 5:16, based on the illustration plan and drafts developed by Marianne Levinsen, landscape, Tengbom architects and Dorte Mandrup architects in co-operation with the municipal planning department). KS’s proposal contributes with a mixed scheme comprising approximately 190 new residential units in a project that simultaneously incorporates small-scale qualities and density with a combination of green public spaces, courtyards for public gathering and private spaces.

Trädgårdsstaden’s concept and structure derives from the local context with its crisp and dramatic mix of high rises, allotment gardens and gardens surrounding single-family houses. The concept is based on the surrounding private gardens which are moved up vertically in the proposed new buildings. All residents are given an advantaged and sustainable opportunity to influence and cultivate in their own domestic environment. The buildings will have seasonal, vivid and evolving green facades, with their own kitchen gardens, plots or orangeries. The landscape at ground level in contrast provides opportunities for social interaction, a sense of community, meetings, playing and recreation. Ample focus has been given to how the proposal is integrated and linked with the patterns, flows and movements of city. Trädgårdsstaden is a welcoming, safe and innovative environment for all.

New CEO at KS

Mi Inkinen has been appointed CEO at Kjellander Sjöberg architects in Stockholm from 1st June 2014. She has been a partner at KS for nine years, where she, along with heading several of the practice’s built projects, has led and coordinated the company’s strategic development, focusing on quality and profitability associated with new business opportunities.

– Kjellander Sjöberg are in a strong position today. We have expanded in several areas and successfully won many new contracts. We have deliberately focused on development, expanding our vision both regarding our internal organization and creative design work. Kjellander Sjöberg stands for innovation and sustainability, projects that last. Our professional approach is to create a close relationship between architecture and urban design, working with buildings and urban spaces that reinforce each other and the city. I look forward to actively developing our practice in the exciting phase we are in, says Mi Inkinen.

– Mi Inkinen is an accomplished leader with a holistic approach and extensive experience of the field as a whole. With her deep insight, expertise and knowledge of the business , she will be able to achieve our long term goals to further develop and strengthen KS’s position as a leading architectural firm, both in Sweden and internationally, says Stefan Sjöberg, Chairman of Kjellander Sjöberg.

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Urban development assignment Kolkajen

KS selected by the City of Stockholm

Kjellander Sjöberg, in a team with Urban Minds, Urbio, Iterio and Ekologigruppen, has been selected by the City of Stockholm for a framework agreement and parallel assignment in Norra Djurgårdsstaden.

The assignment encompasses an urban development concept for the Hjorthagen waterfront area in Norra Djurgårdsstaden, linking the Brofästet area with the transportation node at Ropsten. Kolkajen has been identified as a future sustainable neighborhood with at least 1,500 new housing units, work places and complementary social and commercial services. The attractive design of the new district will enhance the area’s potential and create a vibrant waterfront environment that will become both a local destination as well as inviting visitors from further afield.

Kolkajen is expected to become a dynamic meeting point, offering a high quality living environment, an urban environment that is characterized by the area’s high ambition regarding the environment and sustainability.

The assignment encompasses “Urban structure, building volumes and design of public spaces in the phases Kolkajen, Tjärkajen and Ropsten in Norra Djurgårdsstaden”. The procurement regards both a parallel assignment and a framework agreement for continued design of the urban structure and the public spaces. The contracting unit is Exploateringskontoret, the division for Major projects. Out of 28 applicants, three teams have been selected after a prequalification and interview stage.

KS’s new PR department

Saki Azodi and Jakub Jílek strengthens the team

Saki Azodi and Jakub Jílek have been appointed new PR and Communications coordinators at Kjellander Sjöberg architects in Stockholm. Both are educated architects with a background in public relations.

Saki obtained a master degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art’s school of Architecture in Copenhagen and a bachelor degree from LondonMet in London. She has previously been with Henning Larsen Architects and Caruso St John, and has an international background in architecture, art, fashion, web and communications.

Jakub is originally Czech but comes to KS from Gothenburg. He has a double master’s degree in architecture and urban design from Chalmers University of Technology and CTU in Prague. Besides architecture, he has worked with public relations and graphic design within architecture, academia and performing arts.

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KS wins urban planning commission at Kvarnholmen

First prize invited urban planning competition

After a parallel design assignment with four invited architects Kvarnholmen Utveckling AB has, in consultation with the municipality of Nacka, chosen to proceed with Kjellander Sjöberg to do an urban planning investigation for Kvarnholmen’s final stage, Gäddviken and Hästholmssundet.

Kjellander Sjöberg has, according to the assessment team, approached the task in a creative and engaging way with a proposal that conveys a sense of a dense city, close to the water, with exciting qualities that are expected to contribute to a sustainable and vibrant urban environment. The winning proposal provides a proper and robust starting point to develop design ideas further for future development.

Now the design phase continues parallel with technical studies. The goal is to have a finished urban plan, by the turn of 2014-15, which is the basis for the formal zoning plan.

Participating architects in the competition were White Architects, Alma Architects, Lindberg Stenberg Architects and Kjellander Sjöberg.

New Eriksberg

The child optimized community

Kjellander Sjöberg has, in collaboration with Urbio, Urban Minds and Iterio, developed a playful child optimized urban planning proposal in the invited competition for New Eriksberg in Uppsala, commissioned by Uppsalahem.

Eriksberg is a popular neighbourhood in central Uppsala, built in the late 50’s. Forthcoming renovations of Uppsalahem’s portfolio of 1,500 homes and a proposed addition of 2,000 new homes, offer an opportunity for innovation and sustainable urban development where a holistic approach is requested. A development that is careful, transparent and democratic, in dialogue form, where the existing values are maintained and enhanced.

Our vision for New Eriksberg involves a long-term process aimed at creating a vibrant community with diversity, green qualities and liveability. The area will have a varied content with potential for different types of businesses, residences, residents and lifestyles. Through mixing forms of tenures, creating a variety in urban spaces, buildings and architecture from different periods, a rich and complex neighbourhood will emerge from a forward-looking and robust strategy. All urban spaces have been designed on the basis of optimizing the area from a childrens perspective. Play is a central theme in New Eriksberg.

First prize at Årstafältet

KS proposal Postgården goes forward

Now it is clear that Kjellander Sjöberg’s proposal for the second stage of the urban development of Årstafältet, Postgården, continues after completing the competition. The block of about 90 residential units is a standalone “superblock” located at the neighbourhood’s new square. KS has, together with the developer Sundsvall designed a building that will be a clear focus point on the site’s southeastern side, in the background of Årstafältet active park. The block lands on the site with an open public ground floor that house different functions. It contains a variety of apartment types both for the rental and the sales market.

From the assessment team motivation:
“City Life: The proposal is very strong in its relationship to the square and the street. With the addition of housing and commercial space that spill out onto the street, opportunities are created for street life meeting more private living spaces. Garden spaces as entrances create a welcoming home.
Architectural quality: The staggered positioning of the buildings creates an intriguing volume which is clearly visible from the park. The proposal provides good living qualities with many double-sided apartments.” – Åke Sundevall, City Planning and Development Office in Stockholm.

Light Houses – Young Nordic Architecture

Kjellander Sjöberg at the Architecture and Design Centre

Light Houses presents thirty Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish architecture firms. The architects were invited to create a model of a conceptual “house” that reflects their personal philosophy of architecture. The exhibition also highlights current social and environmental themes, looking at the economic constraints and diminishing environmental resources that challenge architects all over the world in their efforts to achieve maximum quality in their designs. The objects are complemented by the architects’ own texts.

The exhibition is an updated version of the joint Nordic exhibition made for the Architecture Biennale in Venice 2012 and is displayed from 15th of October until 16th of February 2014 at the Architecture and Design Centre in Stockholm.

Light Houses – Young Nordic Architecture

Kjellander Sjöberg exhibits at the Museum of Finnish Architecture

This year’s summer exhibition at the Museum of Finnish Architecture features young Nordic architects. The exhibition is a comprehensive presentation of contemporary Nordic architecture. Through the work of 32 young architects and architectural firms the exhibition shows that contemporary Nordic architecture has an exemplary way to approach contemporary global challenges. The Nordic architecture’s traditional characteristics – straightforward design and sober use of materials, taking into account natural light, natural environment and context – represents in itself the principles of responsible and sustainable architecture.

During the summer of 2013, the exhibition, which premiered at the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice 2012, will be shown in Helsinki with a broader content.

The exhibition will be shown from 5th of June until 22nd of September 2013 at the Museum of Finnish Architecture in Helsinki.

Dream houses at von Echstedtska Gården

KS exhibiting at Värmlands Museum

In the summer exhibition “Glasklara minnen i drömhus och landskap” (Crystal-clear memories in dream homes and landscapes) at the von Echstedtska Gården in Värmland, KS creates a temporary installation in collaboration with I Ingalena Klenell.

“A new pavilion designed for future memories that reflect themselves in the old dam from the 1700s. A house to dream in, a little house, almost an outdoor space, with flexible and light nuances and shifts between outside and inside, to be made of environmentally friendly and sustainable materials.”

The exhibition opens on Sunday, 26th May 2013 at 1 pm by the chairman of the Värmlands Museum, Philip Johnsson.

The exhibition is open 26th May – 25th August 2013, Tuesday – Sunday, 11 am – 6 pm.

Venice Architecture Biennale 2012

KS selected for the Architecture Biennale in Venice

Kjellander Sjöberg is invited to participate at the exhibition “Lighthouses – The Nordic Common Ground” in the Nordic pavilion at the Architecture Biennale 2012.

10 architecture practices from Sweden, Norway and Finland were selected to design respective installations for the Sverre Fehn’s uplifting exhibition pavilion built in 1962. The curator for the Nordic contribution is Peter MacKeith.

David Chipperfield is the main curator of this year’s Biennale. The general topic is Common Ground. “The emphasis of the 2012 Biennale is on what we have in common. Above all, the ambition of Common Ground is to reassert the existence of an architectural culture, made up not just of singular talents but a rich continuity of diverse ideas united in a common history, common ambitions, common predicaments and ideals”

The exhibition is open 29th August – 25th November 2012.

Sweden Green Building Council

KS member of Sweden Green Building Council

The membership is a step in our continuous development of sustainable architecture and urban design.

The association organizes i.a. a seminar series during September 2011 about sustainability certification of city neighbourhoods.

About Sweden Green Building Council:
Sweden Green Building Council is a non-profit organization owned by its members, open to all companies and organizations within the Swedish construction and real estate sector who wish to develop and influence of environmental and sustainability work in the industry.

Together with the Sweden Green Building Council, we have created a common set of values which speeds up our development with the help of common certification system, focusing on the Swedish needs and values.

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