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.

KS lectures in Stockholm

KTH 8th November 2012 18.00

Open lecture by Ola Kjellander and Stefan Sjöberg at the School of Architecture.

KS presents latest residential projects and shares the experience and thoughts about urban planning. Where is the development going to? How do we create a community? How do we build a sustainable city? Do we need to redefine the concept?

The point of departure of our lecture is the notion of “In Situ”, raising the question of how architects and urban planners can better relate to the existing context and its development, not only in Stockholm.

In situ avser ett verk som skapats för en specifik plats. Inom arkitekturen beskriver termen en platsbyggd konstruktion utförd direkt på plats från råmaterial. Platsbyggnadstekniker innehåller ett större mått av flexibilitet och resultatet är mångsidigt och följsamt. Kjellander Sjöberg förespråkar bostäder med en koppling till sitt närsamhälle och sammanhang – arkitektur som har potentialen att läka stadsmiljöer och stimulera ett aktivt offentligt rum med sociala samband.

The lecture is open for public, admission free and doesn’t require any registration.
For Stockholms Arkitektförening, in collaboration with KTH School of Architecture
Date: 8th November 2012, 6 pm
Place: KTH School of Architecture, Östermalmsgatan 26, sal A2, Stockholm

A Short Introduction to Swedish Architecture and Design

Guidebook

This is the title of a new book in Russian with 120 fact-filled pages, that tells the story of Swedish architecture and design history, focusing on events and institutions that have shaped it and presents a selection of the most influential players of today.

– Russia is a growing market for both Swedish design industry and Swedish architects. With this book we hope to increase awareness of Sweden and we hope to contribute to an increased exchange of culture and knowledge between our countries, says Gustaf Kjellin.

The texts in the book are written by Daniel Golling and Gustaf Kjellin. The book is produced by Summit with the support of the Swedish Embassy in Moscow, Semrén & Månsson, Senab, Stockholm Visitors Board and Sweco.

KS invited to Urban Futures Forum

Round table conversation on new possibilities for sustainable urban development

Kjellander Sjöberg is invited to participate in The Copenhagen Urban Futures Forum to share their knowledge and expertise in sustainable urban development. The organizers are the Danish Ministry of the Environment together with Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Future Perfect. The Forum is an interactive discussion and consultation with the aim to reach hands on recommendations: liveability and urban form, resource efficiency, climate adaptation, infrastructure, cooperation and sustainable lifestyles.

“We are facing enormous challenges both environmentally and economically, and I truly believe that a greener economy with more focus on resource efficiency, effective solutions for handling climate change, and an overall focus on sustainability is the way forward. It is clear that our cities will be incredibly important in implementing green economy in our everyday lives. If we are to achieve the best results, we have to share our best practices and experiences with other pioneers in sustainable city development. This forum will allow us to get valuable input to our continued work with creating more sustainability in our cities”. – Ida Auken, Minister for Environment, Denmark

Urbanism – the design, development, inhabitation and adaptation of cities – has, across the 20th and early 21st century, become the terrain where most of society’s questions converge. Copenhagen and Denmark have become associated with successful answers to these questions, pioneering models of urban morphology, lifestyle, and economics, blended with long-term commitments to sustainable infrastructure and energy, and social justice and progress.

The Copenhagen Urban Futures Forum is an informal, high-level roundtable on new options for sustainable urban living, to be held Monday 7 October, 2013 for around 40 invited guests in Copenhagen. The event is a consultation initiative of the Danish Ministry of the Environment (MIM) in collaboration with Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Resource Vision sustainable architects, and the Futureperfect Association (Sweden). Support is also received from the U.S. Embassy to Denmark.

The following are the themes and emerging questions that the Forum will address:

1 Liveability & Urban Form
2 Resource Efficiency & Infrastructure
3 Climate Adaptation
4 Asset-light Living & Internet
5 Business, Trade & Investment

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.

Kjellander Sjöberg at Liljevalchs

In connection with Liljevalchs’ exhibit Home Sweet Home

Seminar: “How do we create a homely atmosphere in the future?”

The question is posed to the architects Stefan Sjöberg and Anders Nyquist and art historian Maja Willén. The seminar is led by design and architecture critic Annica Kvint – one of three curators who created the current exhibition at Liljevalch’s – Home Sweet Home.

The panel consists of the art historian Maja Willén, who has researched open floor plan layouts, architect Anders Nyquist, who is a specialist in recycling architecture since 45 years, and architect Stefan Sjöberg from Kjellander Sjöberg, who designs homes for the major urban development projects, Norra Djurgårdsstaden and Järva.

9th of September, 18:00 – 20:00.

Doors open from 17:00 with the opportunity to see the exhibition Home Sweet Home before the seminar begins.

Stefan Sjöberg on future of housing

In connection with Liljevalch’s exhibit Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home is an artistic interpretation of Swedish and international design icons and their style ideals. With an unpretentious but elegant mix of high and low, cheap and expensive, the exhibition advocates inspiration instead of consumption with the aim of a sustainable future.

“Living involves so much more than houses. It’s about lifestyle. ” says Stefan Sjöberg.

In conjunction with the exhibition Home Sweet Home, Stefan Sjöberg, Graham Hill, Karin Bradley and Clara Lindström were interviewed by the exhibition’s producer Annica Kvint. In the article, Back to the Future, Stefan Sjöberg talks about future of housing and how concepts and lifestyle is in competition with sustainability and function.

The exhibition Home Sweet Home – furnished stories, is shown during 27th of June to 15th of September.

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Pro dialogue: Architecture & Cities

Kjellander Sjöberg participates in the year’s Futureperfect festival on Grinda.

Pro Dialogues is a series of short presentations by speakers with expertise in their respective areas. An exchange of experiences, talks about the challenges and potentials that exist today and in the future. The seminar welcomes all professionals and individuals who are interested in sustainability in architecture and planning.

Futureperfect, 15th – 17th of August on Grinda.

Pro Dialogues

The role of architecture and cities in making a sustainable society could not be more central. The built environment is not only the single most intensive concentration of materials that society manipulates – including carbon, and energy, minerals, water, waste, and biomass – but it sets the patterns by which people live the their daily lives.

New ways of living, and new systems for the management of materials, natural resources and systems, and business models, are all emerging now in architecture and city design. The speakers will lead us through their work in these areas, and discuss the challenges and opportunities along the road ahead. Some of these include the rebuilding of Kiruna City Centre, a food-focussed block in Årstafältet, using bees to reinforce urban ecosystem resilience, and more.

Speakers for the Architecture and Cities Pro Dialogue include:
Karolina Lisslö, Bee Urban
Krister Lindstedt, White Arkitekter
Anna Edblom, White Arkitekter
Anna Denell, Vasakronan
Alexander Ståhle, Spacescape
Stefan Sjöberg, Kjellander Sjöberg

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.

Back to the Future, Liljevalchs, Home Sweet Home

“Living involves so much more than houses. It’s about lifestyle,” says Stefan Sjöberg

In conjunction with the exhibition Home Sweet Home, Stefan Sjöberg, Graham Hill, Karin Bradley and Clara Lindstrom were interviewed by the exhibition’s producer Annica Kvint. In the article, Back to the Future, Stefan Sjöberg tells us about future ways of life and how concepts and lifestyle are complemented with sustainability aspects and functionality.

Home Sweet Home, no. 494, pp. 102-106

Nordic Architects – Ebbs & Flows

David Sokol, Arvinius+ Orfeus Publishing, 2013

Ebbs & Flows, the second volume of Nordic Architects, features the work of 60 leading offices in the Nordic architectural scene. Showcasing their latest works, including unbuilt competition entries, this book gives an incomparable view of the present and future of the new wave in Nordic architecture. Through interviews with all the architects, author David Sokol explores the questions and ideas most relevant to Nordic architecture today. The book features Kjellander + Sjöberg’s projects Annedalsterrassen, Tornhuset, Västra Johannelund and Snäckan.

David Sokol, Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing, September 2013, pp 230-239

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.