IKEA's Creative Hub in Malmö features moody library and walls for scribbling
IKEA employees can "go bananas writing on every wall" inside its Creative Hub in Malmö, Sweden, which features interiors designed by Nanna Lagerman. More
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Swedish rail company swaps paper tickets for embedded microchips
Swedish train operator SJ Railways has become the latest company to adopt technology that reads microchips embedded in the body, and is using it as an alternative to printed rail passes. More
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Foster + Partners reveals quayside cultural complex for Stockholm's old town
Foster + Partners has designed a "new destination" for Stockholm's old town, Gamla Stan. More
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Tham & Videgård completes "tent-like" summer house on a Swedish island
Swedish studio Tham & Videgård Arkitekter designed this summer retreat with a dramatic scooped roofline for an island in the Stockholm archipelago. More
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Bornstein Lyckefors Architects builds vibrant red cabin as a retreat for a Swedish family
Traditional Swedish barns provided the inspiration for this red-hued wooden cabin, designed by Gothenburg studio Bornstein Lyckefors Architects for a keen sailor and his two children. More
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Competition: win a book exploring the simplicity and functionality of Nordic design
Dezeen has teamed up with Oak Publishing and Phaidon to give away five copies of The Red Thread: Nordic Design – a comprehensive look at objects designed "for a practical lifestyle" from Scandinavia and Finland. More
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Elding Oscarson creates "slightly bent" weathering steel extension to Lund's Skissernas Museum
Architecture studio Elding Oscarson has added a Corten steel extension to the Skissernas Museum in Lund, Sweden, designed to open the building up to the adjacent sculpture park. More
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Chequerboard facades front Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter's affordable housing in Stockholm
Stockholm studio Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter has completed a cluster of affordable apartment blocks in the Swedish capital, featuring facades with alternating opaque and transparent sections. More
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Maka Arkitektur completes contemporary Swedish courtyard house
A gabled wall provides the entrance to this holiday home in a Swedish coastal village, which also features rooms arranged around a garden and cherry tree. More
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Timber-framed cabin by Hanna Michelson stands on stilts to peep over the treetops of Swedish mountain
Swedish architect Hanna Michelson has completed a stilted timber cabin overlooking the Åsberget mountains, as the first of four getaways being built for the Bergaliv Landscape Hotel. More
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Note Design Studio celebrates pastel colours in revamp of 19th century property
Instead of opting for the Scandinavian minimalism of many contemporary renovations, Note Design Studio chose to use shades of yellow, green and pink when transforming this old Stockholm office into a home. More
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Tham & Videgård Arkitekter designs austere holiday home on Swedish island
This pared-back holiday home on the Swedish island of Gotland provides a retreat for three generations of a family and was designed by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter. More
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Egg-shaped sauna creates escape for residents of Swedish town displaced by mining
Bigert & Bergström has built a golden, egg-shaped sauna for the people of Kiruna after damage caused by decades of iron ore mining resulted in the relocation of the entire Swedish town. More
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Christian Halleröd uses yellow accents for Axel Arigato Gallery in Stockholm
When designing this pop-up store for fashion brand Axel Arigato, Christian Halleröd brought colour to the minimal space through yellow-tinted windows and bright fur seats. More
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Ström Architects reveals hyper-realistic renderings for pair of Swedish island villas
Two timber-clad villas – one dark and the other silvery grey – balance over a steep hillside on the Swedish island of Lidingö, in these intricately rendered visuals of the project by Ström Architects. More
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White Arkitekter's pared-back bathhouse reinterprets Sweden's traditional "gingerbread" architecture
White Arkitekter has completed a bathhouse on the southern coast of Sweden, featuring a timber-clad structure perched on slender legs that extend outwards towards the rear to optimise sea views. More
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Wingårdh transforms roofless freight depot into Malmö Market Hall
Sheets of pre-rusted red steel cover the new extension to a dilapidated freight depot in Malmö, which has been converted into a covered food market by Swedish studio Wingårdh. More
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Universal Design Studio inserts a hotel into a brutalist building in Stockholm
Located in a brutalist former bank headquarters in Stockholm, Universal Design Studio's latest project, the At Six hotel, is home to one of Europe's most significant hotel art collections. More
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Hufton + Crow's new photographs capture Sweden's Treehotel at sunrise and dusk
British photographer Nick Hufton of Hufton + Crow has visited the Treehotel in northern Sweden to capture its seven unusually themed woodland suites. More
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Chevron-patterned parquet covers swimming pools and spa house by Claesson Koivisto Rune
Zigzagging parquet covers every surface of the swimming pools, spa buildings and patio designed by Stockholm studio Claesson Koivisto Rune for an 18th-century mansion in the south of Sweden. More
