People City Planet Festival 2022 in Cambridge with U+I and Town, Anglian Water and Cambridge City Council. (Images: U+I)
Kjellander Sjöberg London
The London Studio was founded following several years of active engagement in the UK. Recognised for our award-winning architecture and urbanism we aim to bring the best of Scandinavian design, innovation, and regenerative practice.
Kjellander Sjöberg are a diverse community of architects, urban designers, and planners with exceptional talents collaborating closely across Sweden and the UK. Experts in delivering creative architecture and masterplans, we participate in the innovative urban discourse of three vibrant cities in which our studios are based: Stockholm, Malmö and London. These places champion the future of liveable environments and good growth development and allow us to drive new thinking which supports thriving communities based on the quality of life, social equity, and resilient, sustainable models.
The city, as such, is the foundation of all our projects. A place to explore and expand on.
Collaborative by nature, we can also successfully fashion bespoke teams comprising leading UK practices to bring specialist expertise to large scale projects. Our Swedish and UK partnerships are valuable assets allowing us to combine the best experiences of both creative cultures to bring unique new perspectives to architecture, urban design, public realm strategies and spatial narratives. As Kjellander Sjöberg we bring a different voice to the discourse – we approach the UK context afresh and without pre-conceptions to develop new and relevant approaches from first principles.
We are focussed on making rich, inspiring, and authentic places with a clear identity and a positive social impact. With the emergence of revitalised streets, parks and neighbourhoods we see a renewed interest in urban quality which inspires our initiatives to reimagine cities as welcoming, flourishing and nourishing places which promise opportunity and potential. Our interventions are acutely rooted in contextual sensitivity and actively shaped by positive community engagement. We approach architecture and creative masterplans in a very granular way to realize places and spaces that are meaningful, relatable, and enjoyed at human scale.
Every KS project tells the story of its essential elements: Life, Society, Fabric, Form, Environment
Founding Director
Architect SAR/MSA
Stefan leads mixed-use building developments and large-scale masterplan projects. He co-founded Kjellander Sjöberg with Ola Kjellander in 1998 and has led the practice towards establishing an innovative community driven approach based on regenerative principles within planetary boundaries. Stefan trained as an architect at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the University of Oregon in the USA. He has lectured throughout his career, sits on international design panels including for the Swedish Association of Architects and is a frequent invited speaker.
Associate Director London
Architect M.Arch ARB RIBA
Irfan is an architect and associate director at Kjellander Sjöberg London. With a background of working with some of the most renowned award-winning architectural firms in London, Irfan has extensive experience in residential, cultural, and higher education projects. Irfan sits on the Southwark Design Review Panel and the Watford Place Shaping Review Panel.
Our key projects in the UK include the Meridian Water Masterplan for the London Borough of Enfield and a prominent residential mixed-use development in Brent Cross Town commissioned by Argent Related.