Facilitator of the Year 2017 prize

KS’s pro-bono project the elementary school in Burkina Faso, developed in collaboration with Yennenga Progress, was awarded the “Facilitator of the Year” prize at the Architecture Gala 2017, arranged by Architects Sweden. The prize rewards a person or a practice enabling good architecture with a significant contribution to society. The need for classrooms is extensive across the whole region and the school has proven to be a great success both for the village itself as well as by attracting students from the surrounding areas. The project, designed by KS, is built entirely by local builders and craftsmen, thus improving the local economy.

“We are very happy that the jury chose to recognize this kind of project. The true facilitator is Yennenga Progress, developing a range of projects in Burkina Faso.”
– Lena Viterstedt, partner in charge.

KS wins competition for Söderstadion

Kjellander Sjöberg has, in team with Wallenstam, Åke Sundvall, Castellum and White architects, won the competition for the future development of Söderstadion in Stockholm with the proposal “Söderhov”. The vision is to create an integrated urban district near the Globe Arena, that offers both a local urban vibe and memorable experiences. A natural place for people to meet and socialize and a visitor destination with a wide range of food, music and sports. The proposal, that contains a new park and constitutes a vibrant, urban edge toward the Globen square, aims at generating new meeting places and social community. Söderhov becomes a city district for both residents and businesses in a dynamic relation to the existing city fabric and the emerging area Slakthusområdet. The land transfer competition, launched by the City of Stockholm contains approximately 800 apartments as well as businesses with offices, hotels and centrally located amenities.

More about the competition in Swedish

KS nominated for major tile award

We’re happy to announce that KS’s Elderly Care Skärvet is nominated for the tile award “Stora Kakelpriset 2017”. The annual award highlights Swedish architecture using tiles in a way that utilizes the positive qualities of the material.

The project Elderly Care Skärvet combines four sections of different types of tile patterns creating a vivid and varied facade. Apart from design and material use, Skärvet is designed to achieve LEED platinum and Skanska’s top-level environmental classification.

The elderly care is a part of the neighbourhood Skärvet, a starting point for a new urban district in Växjö. KS, together with Skanska, won the land transfer competition for the development of the site in 2014.

KS discussing Commoning Kits at ABAR

Upcoming ABAR focuses on KS’s exhibition Commoning Kits. An exhibition presenting innovating prototypes designed by 13 Scandinavian architectural offices to discuss urban commons, meeting places and sharing in our future cities.
The event will be opened by Johan Pitura from Kjellander Sjöberg, followed by a discussion of the exhibiting architects about their proposals and prototypes for the exhibition. The public is invited to participate in the discussion.

Lecturers:
Johan Pitura (Kjellander Sjöberg)
Uffe Leth (Leth + Gori )
Susanna Rahm (Nilsson Rahm)
Anna Nilsson (Nilsson Rahm)
Magnus Kvalheim (Vardehaugen)
Anna Forslöw (Ahaa)

The event is free and open to everyone.

Time: Thursday Sept 5 at 17:30
Place: Form/Design Center, Lilla torg 9, Malmö

How Stora Sköndal becomes an urban melting pot

The public hearing phase for the new Program for Stora Sköndal has now been launched. It marks the starting point for Sköndal’s transformation into an inclusive urban neighbourhood with nature and heart. The district is centrally located in southern Stockholm and has a long cultural history with valuable nature, proximity to water and broad existing social activities. The vision shows possibilities for creating an integrated diverse city with 4,400 new housing units, workplaces, nursery and healthcare services, education, various amenities, recreation and sport – all for people with functional variation. Kjellander Sjöberg has, as a part of the workgroup, designed an urban structure with good opportunities for increased diversity as well as more mixed and denser urban development. The proposal is based on the precondition to create a socially and physically inclusive environment, taking into consideration Sköndal’s high cultural values, ecological links and existing activities. The development process is a way to introduce better connections to the surroundings and to offer new functionally varied meeting places – a square, streets, parks and pathways.

The landowner Foundation Stora Sköndal has initiated the work on the Program with the overall goal to manage and develop its activities in the future in close collaboration with the City of Stockholm. To adopt such community-building task, the Foundation Stora Sköndal has created a workgroup with broad competence. Kjellander Sjöberg has worked with urban design and architecture, accompanied by The City Planning Office, EBAB, Landskapslaget, Ekologigruppen, WSP and Spacescape.
The construction start for Stora Sköndal’s first stage – Magnoliatomten – is scheduled for 2019.
The Program for Stora Sköndal is exhibited for public hearing from 2017-09-26 until 2017-11-06.