INVITED COMPETITION - HONORABLE MENTION

"A proposal with great architectural qualities with an autonomous expression of seldom seen. Timelessness and beauty mediated in the draft that becomes a work of art in itself."

Stockholm

Liljevalchs’ new extension marks itself as an explicit part of the place, a sculpted volume with its own identity. The extension interacts with Liljevalch existing compact, closed body, reads its architecture and organization, and allows a contemporary sculpted imprint subscribe at the site. Liljevalchs to with its garden café Blue Gate is a cohesive system that clearly defines an outer boundary, where mass and scale creates inner and outer rooms that clearly relates to the art gallery's complex context and to the city. A sculpted body engages the outer border to the west, and between old and new creates a passage which, like a lantern, pulls down the light between the volumes. A clear situation is created where old and new grips each other.

Project team

Petra Gipp, Jonas Hesse, Malin Heyman, Emil Bäckström, Susanna Bremberg, Jasmien Wouters, Dacil Lorente Snowdon, Maja Hjertén Knutsson, Daniel Andersson, Maria Cagnoli, Marco Nathansohn

Landscape architecture: Ulf Nordfjell, Tiina Henning Wademeier.

Art: Sune Nordgren