Gjuteriet nominated for the Scandinavian Design Awards

KS transformation of the listed industrial building Gjuteriet in Malmö for Varvsstaden has been nominated for the Scandinavian Design Awards 2024 in the ‘Architecture of the Year’ category.

The Scandinavian Design Awards are an annual award initiated in 2023 to celebrate the best architecture, design and interiors in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland; and is a collaboration between Stockholm Furniture Fair and the publisher It Is Media.

This year’s edition takes place on 6th February in the iconic Blue Hall in the Stockholm City Hall during the Stockholm Design Week 2024. Nominees in all categories will be presented in a joint exhibition, open to the public during the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2024.

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KS designs new community landmark for Rosengård

Kjellander Sjöberg Architects, in collaboration with Rosengård fastigheter JV, are designing a new landmark for Törnrosen in Rosengård in Malmö. As part of the urban regeneration project Culture Casbah, it will deliver 60 new diverse homes, as well as activate public community content on the ground floor, directly connected to a new vibrant urban axis joining the entire district. The main objective is to create a more liveable, mixed, urban, green, and safe neighbourhood with human scale in focus where everyone feels at home.

KS have been involved in the regeneration of the area since 2021 and have actively worked with Rosengård fastigheter JV to introduce more accessible homes, retail units, workplaces and new spaces for meetings, culture, sport and play. During September, KS have participated in Malmö in the Making, a public initiative organized by the Malmö City Council, and arranged a number of public events, dialogues and guided walking tours of Rosengård.

Interview about Gjuteriet in RUM

– Gjuteriet in Malmö rises from the ruins. Kjellander Sjöberg Architects have preserved the past whilst at the same time written the next chapter in the history of the building and the area, writes Ellinor Thunberg in an extensive interview with KS Malmö Director Johan Pitura, published in the latest issue of the RUM magazine.

Kjellander Sjöberg’s transformation of Gjuteriet in Malmö for Varvsstaden is presented in the September issue of RUM – a Swedish magazine which informs, inspires and reflects on architecture, interior design and design. The comprehensive article highlights the collaborative process focused on resource-efficiency, extensive material re-use and circular strategies, aiming at preserving and revealing traces and memories which tell the story of the building.

Magazine RUM, September 2023, p. 135-142

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Faaborg: climate change adaptation activating the coastline

The coastal town of Faaborg in southern Denmark is currently facing major challenges – the most urgent being the high risk of flooding caused by climate change. Fully exposed to the sea, the low-lying medieval city is being threatened by rising sea levels and extreme rainfall. Most recently in October 2023, the water rose by 205 cm above sea level.

Appointed by Faaborg council, Kjellander Sjöberg and the Danish landscape practice LYTT Architecture are developing a climate-resilient masterplan to protect the historical town and its strong position as an attractive urban destination bordering UNESCO global geopark. The proposal will secure Faaborg using various innovative types of coastal defence techniques, adapted to the unique local character, and the part of the city built on reclaimed land is to receive a modified foundation. An underground culvert is to be transformed into an open channel where water can be regulated whilst recreating the original character of the landscape.

The commission is a result of winning a competition in 2019, organized by the municipality and Realdania, inviting teams to participate in an open process to identify opportunities through an open dialogue.

Kjellander Sjöberg nominated for 2024 EUmies Awards

We are proud to announce that KS’s transformation of Gjuteriet for Varvsstaden has been nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Awards 2024, seeking to achieve a thorough understanding of the transformation of Europe’s built environment and to recognise and commend excellence and innovation in the field of architecture.

The 2024 cycle will reflect on the current challenges that citizens, architects, clients, developers, policy makers and other professionals are faced with in the context of the European Green Deal. A total of 362 significant works realized all over 38 different European countries were submitted for the jury’s consideration which will now select 40 finalists. The winner will be announced in April 2024.

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Gjuteriet wins the Urban Design Award 2023 in Malmö

The old foundry building in the Kockum’s industrial heritage area in Malmö has been revived, and the significant landmark can thus live on. KS’s transformation project Gjuteriet for Varvsstaden has won the Urban Design Award 2023 arranged by Malmö City Council – an annual award which has been honouring highly sustainable and inclusive architecture and urban design for over 40 years.

Excerpt from jury’s verdict:
Through a series of clear and carefully considered moves, the former foundry in the Kockum’s area in Malmö has not only been reused, but also elevated as a significant cultural heritage of great importance it represents for the city. The new timber frame forming the interior spaces with a diverse programme has partially been suspended from the old traverse beams, providing them with a new function. This approach creates authenticity and at the same time keeps the ground floor free of loadbearing structures.

Gjuteriet published in DETAIL

Kjellander Sjöberg’s industrial heritage transformation project Gjuteriet in Malmö has been featured in the July-August issue of DETAIL – an international professional journal for architecture and construction details published in German and English which devotes every issue to specific topics in construction and building details in architecture.

We are proud to see the worldwide attention Gjuteriet has received, being recognised by the leading specialist for architecture and structural engineering DETAIL.

Gjuteriet – transformation of industrial heritage into a new creative workplace in Malmö built around social meeting and communal spaces, designed by Kjellander Sjöberg for Varvsstaden. Focused on the intensive re-use of repurposed materials, the project demonstrates how existing buildings can be reimagined based on circular principles.

DETAIL, Saving Space 7/8.2023, p. 4-6

KS finalist for the Urban Design Award 2023 in Malmö

Kjellander Sjöberg’s transformation project Gjuteriet in Varvsstaden in Malmö has been appointed as one of the three finalists for the Malmö City Urban Design Award 2023. We are delighted and look forward to 9th October when the award ceremony takes place.

Vibrant urban timber block in Sege Park

Sege Park, Kjellander Sjöberg’s innovative and climate-smart residential project in Malmö, developed in collaboration with Trianon, has been completed. The lush timber block won the innovation design competition Nordic Built Cities Challenge in 2016 under the name ‘It Takes a Block’. The scheme comprises 65 rental apartments above six flexible ground floors which can be adapted as needed over time and opened towards shared inner courtyards. The design is based on sharing resources and spaces to create climate-smart and affordable housing which improves quality of life of its residents. Generous communal courtyards with diverse green spaces form informal meeting places, spaces for activities and leisure. Urban farming, apple orchard and a local pocket park are some of the elements that aid in the densification of the newly built environment and bring additional value to create an inclusive, vibrant and attractive neighbourhood.