Anna Norlander

The newly opened Sara Cultural Centre in Skellefteå, Sweden is a mixed-use cultural hub and hotel complex which serves as a new cultural and aesthetic landmark for Skellefteå as well as an invitation for architects, designers and builders to reconsider the viability of timber as a sustainable and innovative material appropriate to highrise and complex builds.   Åke Eson Lindman Skellefteå, located just below the Arctic Circle in Swedish Lapland, is traditionally known for salmon fishing and gold mining, but has more recently become a hub for education, computing, and sustainability. The Cultural Centre is symbolic of the Municipality's focus on reviving its heritage and harnessing future development within... More