Urbanistica Podcast – Cities for People

We’re really excited to have been invited to take part in one of the latest episodes of Urbanistica Podcast – Cities for People, covering urban design and planning topics as well as exploring stories about how to make cities for people. Thank you, Mustafa Sherif, for the invitation and for hosting such an inspiring international platform for dialogue; with over 440 episodes of quality content about making better urban places.

Angela Woda, senior urban designer, and founding director Stefan Sjöberg share their thoughts and experience from Kjellander Sjöberg´s urban design projects, reflecting on community development and masterplanning in the UK, highlighting KS’s work on the Hartree masterplan in Cambridge with 5600 new homes, workspaces, schools and green community assets, as well as discussing lessons learnt working in London and around Scandinavia.

– How do we measure success in a long-term development?

– What are the routes to a meaningful public engagement – and how does it underpin our work?

– How do we ensure everyone is on board, heard and listened to in broad teams?

– Setting values and mutual goals as a key factor in transformative processes

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New homes at Telefonplan

We are delighted to have been entrusted with the design of a new, charming residential scheme at Telefonplan in Stockholm for Klövern. The Viridum block, close to the city centre, will comprise approximately 140 apartments in a well-established urban setting, close to amenities, the metro, restaurants, preschools, a school, and leisure facilities.

The area around Telefonplan has its own unique identity, with a history linked to LM Ericsson’s operations, boasting high cultural values and many older industrial buildings to draw inspiration from. The smart, well-designed homes will range from studios to 4-bedroom apartments, 34 to 110 square meters. With a communal courtyard, spacious balconies, and terraces, it will be a comfortable and enjoyable place to live.

The project has ambitious sustainability goals and will be certified with BREEAM Excellent. Construction is scheduled to begin in spring 2025.

Image – preliminary facade sketch

Circularity fits like a glove

Kjellander Sjöberg’s transformation of Gjuteriet in Malmö for Varvsstaden is featured in the June 2024 issue of Fastighetstidningen – a magazine about real estate that also covers topics that are important for the industry’s development and its role in the society.

In the comprehensive article, Leo Gullbring reasons about circular and sustainable construction, architectural qualities, circular economy adaptation, and how ambitious programs are created when the construction industry is to become climate neutral.

– We weren’t interested in just showcasing and varnishing industrial environments that told a story from the city’s heyday. We wanted the building to last another hundred years. The exposed steel frame proved functional, and the building’s structure opened up a wealth of ideas. We could create a kind of sustainability hierarchy where we started with what was already there and gradually added local, renewable materials, and of course, a few that don’t quite meet the standard, like mineral wool in the worst case, says Stefan Sjöberg.

Fastighetstidningen, Nr 3 June 2024 p. 50-52

Read the article by Fastighetstidningen (in Swedish)
Read more about Gjuteriet

KS at Building Green Hamburg

ACT NOW! Everyone is talking about the urgent need for a change, to reorganise the building sector. There is no time to lose. We are facing an acute climate crisis for which the construction industry bears a large part of the responsibility. We have the solutions and the knowledge of what needs to be done, but how do we get from talking to doing?

Featuring the revitalisation of Kockum’s formerly industrial area in Malmö and the example of Gjuteriet, Stefan Sjöberg will present the process of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through minimising resource consumption and impact on the climate caused by urban transformation and construction processes. How focusing on sustainable strategies and common goals early in the process is essential for the necessary transition as well as for the built result – architecture. The lecture, titled: Reimagning industrial heritage, will take place on 19 June at 11:15 on the main stage.

Time and place:
19 – 20 June 2024
Fischauktionshalle
Große Elbstraße 9
Hamburg

Focus on hybrid architecture and industrial heritage

Our Team Superlocal comprising of Kjellander Sjöberg, Förstberg Ling and We Made That has been selected by the developers Skanska Fastigheter and Riksbyggen, in collaboration with Malmö City Council and process management by Gunilla Kronvall, to partake in an innovative, forward-looking, and exciting parallel assignment for Trollhättan 6 on Universitetsholmen in Malmö.

The brief’s main aspiration is to explore the use of existing resources, hybrid architecture and an ambitious sustainability agenda. The design should enhance Malmö’s special character and become an exemplar in highlighting industrial heritage. Trollhättan 6 is to become a mixed urban block with new workplaces and homes, providing central areas and meeting places that activate the urban realm.

We are looking forward to working with the jury and our amazing colleagues: Holly Lewis, co-founding partner of We Made That in London as critical advisor. Björn Förstberg, founder of Förstberg Ling in Malmö, winner of the Housing Award 2023 for Twelve Houses.

Our Team Superlocal will investigate the site conditions, its role and character, and how to create a more inclusive neighbourhood and a sense of belonging for people and businesses in the neighbourhood.

The assignment will be preceded by a series of workshops where participating architects, together with the organizers, examine and discuss central issues of the development and design.

Hartree shortlisted for the Pineapples for Community Engagement

The Pineapples are the only awards that celebrate the very best in placemaking and place-led initiatives, with an exciting programme and a commitment to recognising projects that make a positive social, environmental and economic impact.

Kjellander Sjöberg are leading the masterplan and design programme, which have been driven by the core of the engagement approach, building a process to form trust and a genuine relationship with the community and involve them in the design of Hartree. The engagement workstreams have been led by our wonderful clients TOWN. & LandsecU+I together with ECF and landowners Cambridge City Council and Anglian Water Services.

Championing the key principles of people, city and planet, the vision for Hartree is to create a place that has positive social, economic and environmental impact built around a pioneering 5-minute neighbourhood which will give local people everything they need to thrive, within just a five-minute walk or cycle away. Focusing on the human experience, it will be a walkable, inclusive low-carbon new neighbourhood that will play a part in shaping the city’s future.

Gjuteriet nominated for the Kasper Salin Prize 2024

‘Through diligent work with reuse, the old shipyard ruin has been transformed into a multifaceted workspace building, preserving the history of the site with its architecture whilst exploring new means of expression. The project embraces diversity and variation, and its articulation is informed by the relationships between original, reused, and new materials.’ From the jury’s report.

The prize is awarded annually by Architects Sweden to a recently completed building of high architectural quality to stimulate and disseminate good examples. Gjuteriet in Malmö is one of the four nominees for the Kasper Salin Prize which is considered the most prestigious award in the country. The winner will be revealed at the Architecture Gala on 9th April.

Gjuteriet is a transformation project; a reimagination of an industrial heritage focusing on circular strategies and a high degree of material reuse in the former Kockum’s shipyard area in Malmö. The project is designed by Kjellander Sjöberg for Varvsstaden, in collaboration with the contractor PEAB and the tenant Oatly.

Read jury's report (in Swedish)
Read more about Kasper Salin Prize 2024 (in Swedish)
Read more about Gjuteriet