Kjellander Sjöberg invited to City Development Competition in Denmark

Kjellander Sjöberg, in collaboration with GHB Landskab, has been selected for the Faaborg Harbour and City Development Plan competition. Three teams have been invited to create a development plan for Faaborg with a special focus on three areas for densification – around centrally located industries, the harbour and the railway station.

The basis for the competition is an attempt to turn around a decrease in population by creating positive and vibrant city environments, both for residents and tourism. How to connect the old city centre to the surrounding countryside and archipelago, and how can the town and port be secured against flooding? The task includes work with three focus areas: massing studies, climate adaptation and culture.

The competition will be conducted as an open process, enabling dialogue between the participating teams and the jury and advisors, to contribute to and build knowledge. The winner will be announced in December 2019. The client is Faaborg council and Realdania.

The other two teams are Adept together with Mandaworks and SLA together with Praksis Arkitekter.

Photo: Faaborg-Midtfyn Kommune

KS nominated for EU Mies Award 2019

We are thrilled to announce that KS’s Elderly Care Skärvet in Växjö is nominated for the prestigious international European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2019.

The EU Mies Award is a continuous process focused on how architects are thinking and working in Europe today. The Prize objectives aim at promoting and understanding the significance of quality and reflecting the complexity of Architecture’s own significance in terms of technological, constructional, social, economic, cultural and aesthetic achievements. It seeks to recognise and commend excellence in European architecture.

– We are very proud to be nominated with an elderly care, a project carrying such an important role in society. The design is an innovative response to a combination of challenges involving both the construction and the building type. Lena Viterstedt, partner in charge.

Elderly Care Skärvet combines four sections of different types of tile patterns creating a vivid and varied facade. Apart from design and material use, Skärvet is designed to achieve LEED platinum and Skanska’s top-level environmental classification. The elderly care is a part of the neighbourhood Skärvet, a starting point for a new urban district in Växjö. KS, together with Skanska, won the land transfer competition for the development of the site in 2014.

Etaget wins Design S Award

Kjellander Sjöberg has been awarded the Design S – Swedish Design Awards 2018. The residential building Etaget won in the category Architecture – best completed project.

Design S – Swedish Design Awards is Sweden’s biggest and most comprehensive design award, backed by the entire design industry. The award is aimed at professional designers, architects, individual specialists, producers and companies that work with design in a broad sense. Design S – Swedish Design Awards works in partnership with several industry organisations that together with Svensk Form (Swedish Form) select the jury and contribute to the award’s enormous span within all disciplines of design.

The jury’s motivation:
An inspired residential building rises from a dense streetscape, with a mission to reestablish the city’s sense of dramatics, to shake some life into the surrounding neighbourhood. The building revels in the many challenges presented by the site and density, playing with volumes and materials all the way up to the terraces and ledges of the green roofs’ communal spaces and viewpoints. In surroundings still in part characterized by the monotony of industries and offices, this architecture shapes its own order and rhythm, with a complexity whose references range both far back and far ahead in time.

Etaget is an infill residential building combining an existing context with new build. The volume, made up of staggered cubes, has a distinct silhouette, discernible both at a distance and from the surrounding streets. The focus is socio-ecological sustainability, green spaces are used to provide experiences within a compact city.

Client: Tobin Properties
Architect: Kjellander Sjöberg
Interior architect: Koncept
Landscape architect: Urbio