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.

KS invited to Pittsburgh p4

Kjellander Sjöberg in the USA on the 16-17th of April

Kjellander Sjöberg has been invited to Pittsburgh for the launch of the Pittsburgh p4 – an international summit and conference initiated by The City of Pittsburgh and The Heinz Endowments – a foundation and property owner. The event is the first step in a major effort to form a new model for Pittsburgh’s future growth and sustainable urban development that is innovative, inclusive and equitable. The central and unifying framework is p4 – People, Planet, Place and Performance.

The conference is a two day workshop on the 16-17th of April. Pittsburgh’s mayor William Peduto has invited prominent local leaders and key experts to join forces with national and international guests, with an emphasis on leaders from Nordic metropolitan regions. The objective is to discuss, envision and plan Pittsburgh’s continuing emergence as a post-industrial leader.

The future is now, Arkitekten

The article discusses innovative technological tools that are available to architects and designers, enabling design solutions that almost sound like science fiction!

Kjellander Sjöberg’s CEO, Mi Inkinen and partner Ola Kjellander, discuss the opportunities that 3D technology offers their industry.
“Renders are one thing, but everyone knows that they can be manipulated. Being able to show a physical model in the early stages to clients and politicians is an advantage. Simultaneously it enables us to experiment in a different way than you can on a screen. “says Mi.

Both Ola and Mi believe in the 3D-printer as a tool which can regain some of the architect’s lost authority. When you can print out parts of the building itself, you are no longer dependent on subcontractors’ too often mediocre stock range.

Arkitekten, April 2015, no 3, pp 32-37

The new urban life, Dagens Industri, Weekend

Kjellander Sjöberg’s Lena Viterstedt – partner / creative director and Saki Azodi – communications / architect, discuss the urban density of Stockholm and new forms of urban life in the city, in DI Weekend no. 12-2015.

With soaring housing prices, the four walls of homes are increasingly pressed into a bare minimum, relocating practical tasks out to communal spaces. “It will become more common for residential buildings to have shared workshops, car pools or roof gardens that for example, can supply a restaurant located in the same building. This facilitates for increased interactions amongst residents, providing other forms of values, which makes up for the smaller flats.” Explains Lena Viterstedt.

Dagens Industri, Weekend, 27 mars 2015, no 12, pp 3, 16-19

KS at The Light Symposium

Stefan Sjöberg is giving a talk at The Light Symposium 2015

The Light Symposium will be held in conjunction with the International Year of Light 2015, an initiative composed of a large consortium of scientific bodies together with UNESCO, with the objective to raise awareness of the potential inherent in light, lighting and lighting technology and to provide solutions to global challenges in energy, education, agriculture and health.

The event will offer sessions with internationally renowned speakers and aims to provide a wide and deep perspective on the topic and to raise the level of the discussions and general knowledge in the field of Architectural Lighting Design. Stefan Sjöberg is invited to discuss the relationship between daylight and architecture on the 19th of March at KTH in Stockholm.

“Light reveals the essence of architecture, defining space both in urban environments and peoples everyday life.” Stefan Sjöberg.

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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.

Small-scale housing that fills the gap, Arkitektur

In Arkitektur no. 7, 2014, the editorial team discusses the current Swedish housing gap. Kjellander Sjöberg’s project Sjöterrassen is referred to as a good and innovative example of a newly built housing project.

“Sjöterrassen adds a sequel to the story of human habitat that the industrialized construction has helped creating. Some lessons have been learned. Technology has been toned down. What emerges is lively architecture, which demonstrates that quality can be created if one shows care for the resources available, rather than having access to large quantity of resources.
Meticulousness is visible/ … / in the buildings’ placement in the landscape and in their relationships to each other. Simple blocks come to life through the way they shapes interstitial spaces and places.”

Arkitektur, no 7, 2014, pp 70-73

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.