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We create resilient architecture to inspire sustainable ways of life.

11/06/2026

As Sweden’s school year draws to a close🎓, we’re marking a new chapter for one of the country’s oldest technical schools.

Sven Eriksonsgymnasiet in Borås has gained a contemporary addition, where history and future meet in a sustainable whole. Commissioned by , the project adds to a campus shaped by different eras.
Founded in 1856, ”Teknis” is one of Sweden’s first technical schools. Its campus has grown in stages into an architectural patchwork – red and yellow brick, rendered façades, mosaic detailing – united by a shared formal language. Our brief: a contemporary volume with the same presence as its neighbours, without competing.

The result is a rectilinear block, carved out to form a colonnade at the entrance, borrowing rhythm from the surrounding windows.

Large glazed sections turn the building toward the campus, creating a connection between indoors and outdoors that was previously missing – and a new social hub on the ground floor.

Slate cladding ages with dignity, low climate footprint and durable — a bridge between tradition and present. Inside, robust materials, a consistent palette, and flexible layouts built to adapt.

The building closes the sightlines along Lilla and Stora Brogatan, two central axes, acting as a landmark near Borås central station. Developed with the city architect and antiquarian, shaped through physical models– since shown to architecture students at the school. White Arkitekter has been involved from first sketch through construction, one clear thread from site placement to smallest detail.

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Stockholm’s Norra Hagastaden is one of the region’s largest urban transformation projects – converting a former hospital...
10/06/2026

Stockholm’s Norra Hagastaden is one of the region’s largest urban transformation projects – converting a former hospital district into a mixed-use neighbourhood of around 3,000 homes and 150,000 m² of workspace and civic facilities.

With as client, we led the area’s first detailed development plan. Now we continue as landscape architecture subconsultant to , shaping streets, squares, parks, and green corridors designed to support biodiversity throughout. By combining urban planning, landscape architecture, and sustainability thinking, we are helping to build an inclusive and resilient neighbourhood — in close collaboration with Locum, Ramboll, as landowner and developer, and the wider project team.

Visualisation: White Arkitekter

Second prize in Hamburg. Our garden city proposal for Gartenstadt Berne. Our proposal reimagines the 1920s garden city i...
05/06/2026

Second prize in Hamburg. Our garden city proposal for Gartenstadt Berne. Our proposal reimagines the 1920s garden city ideal for present-day housing: denser, more climate-resilient, and rooted in shared life. The scheme is organised around communal courtyards, productive landscapes and three neighbourhood hubs – dedicated to food, culture and care – designed as social anchors for everyday living.

Existing mature trees and the historic landscape structure shaped where new buildings sit. Timber construction and low-carbon materials form the technical backbone. And new housing typologies – co-living arrangements, communal kitchens, winter gardens and flexible shared spaces – make room for a wider range of households and ways of living.

The competition was organised by housing cooperative , in a heritage-listed area regarded as one of the finest examples of the German garden city movement.

Visualisations: .studio

02/06/2026

In close collaboration with , White Arkitekter has developed the campus vision for the company’s future establishment in Hagastaden, Stockholm. The assignment has focused on how an urban campus can create stronger connections between people, innovation and operations – while positioning Ericsson as a visible part of Stockholm’s growing knowledge and innovation ecosystem.

Ericsson has announced that the company will gradually relocate its Stockholm operations to Hagastaden starting in 2028. We have supported the process by developing a campus vision for how the organisation can operate and evolve in a dense urban environment, where multiple buildings will come together to form a cohesive campus and a strong identity for Ericsson within the city’s emerging innovation district.

🎥: Ericsson

🎉Eskilstuna District Court wins Eskilstuna Architecture Prize 2026. Housed in the former Mint, the courthouse has been e...
29/05/2026

🎉Eskilstuna District Court wins Eskilstuna Architecture Prize 2026. Housed in the former Mint, the courthouse has been extended and refurbished to create new courtrooms, improved security, and spaces designed to feel inclusive and grounded – for everyone who passes through.

We led the interior architecture on the project, working alongside architect and client Domstolsverket. The concept draws on Eskilstuna’s industrial heritage, shaping the colour palette, material choices, and furnishings throughout. The guiding ambition was for architecture and interiors to work as one coherent whole: building character and interior detail reinforcing each other rather than competing.

The jury highlighted the balance struck between old and new – neither asked to step aside – with a considered glazed junction bringing two strong characters into equilibrium. A resource-conscious transformation where an existing building is reused through small but precise interventions, and where the choreography of arrival begins before you even reach the door.

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🎉Västergårdsparken in Järvastaden, Solna, has been awarded the 2026 Solna City Environmental Award. The 15,000 m² neighb...
28/05/2026

🎉Västergårdsparken in Järvastaden, Solna, has been awarded the 2026 Solna City Environmental Award. The 15,000 m² neighbourhood park was designed from the start with its community – children and adults alike helped determine what the park would become, and how it would feel.

The design works with the site’s existing terrain and original vegetation, weaving together open lawns, activity areas, and quieter woodland spaces into one connected whole.

”In close collaboration with , we wanted to create a park that feels entirely of its place – where nature hasn’t been replaced but has become the very starting point for the design. By working with the undulating terrain, preserving large areas of vegetation, and creating new meeting places, we have been able to unite ecological values with social qualities,” says Angelica Bierfeldt Liptak, landscape architect at White Arkitekter.

Awarded annually since 1998, the Solna City Environmental Award recognises projects that make a meaningful contribution to the city’s architectural and environmental development. This year’s jury highlighted Västergårdsparken as an example of sustainable, inclusive, and nature-integrated urban design.

Photography: .zaar

Sweden was the first country in Europe to establish national parks – nine of them, in 1909. Today there are 31, visited ...
22/05/2026

Sweden was the first country in Europe to establish national parks – nine of them, in 1909. Today there are 31, visited by nearly 3 million people a year. On International Day for Biological Diversity, and ahead of National Parks Day Sweden this Sunday (24 May), we’re looking back at more than three decades of designing naturum visitor centres and national park entrances – spaces built for one purpose: to deepen our connection to ecosystems that existed long before we arrived.

Each project starts with the same brief: add a building without diminishing the landscape. That requires more than technical skill. It requires understanding what a place is – its ecology, its light, its seasonal rhythms — and designing something that amplifies all of it.

We call it architecture with nature as the client.

Nine projects. Nine landscapes. Which one speaks to you?

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Biosphere Reserve | Photo: Åke E:son Lindman

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Tiveden National Park | Photo: White Arkitekter

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School architecture that starts with the children.🧡 At Granelundsskolan in Tranås, Sweden, the pupils broke the ground t...
19/05/2026

School architecture that starts with the children.🧡 At Granelundsskolan in Tranås, Sweden, the pupils broke the ground themselves – spades in hand, spring 2023. It was the right beginning for a project built around inclusion: from the first programme discussions in 2018 to opening day, every decision was shaped by dialogue between White Arkitekter, contractor , developer AB , .kommun, and the school community, creating a direct link between architectural vision and everyday pedagogy.

Three volumes, each with a distinct colour and function, break the building down to a scale a child can understand. At the centre, a double-height atrium – daylight pouring in, a wide staircase doubling as tiered seating – connects every part of the school in a sequence that needs no signage to navigate.

Landscape, interiors, and architecture were integrated from the start, allowing placement, outdoor spaces, and detailing to be optimised together. The shared ambition across the whole team was a school worth looking forward to. By every measure, that’s what Tranås got.

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11/05/2026

Last week, a neighbourhood square in Gothenburg was officially reborn.🌷 Hjällbo Centrum has opened – a square redesigned as a green, playful and welcoming meeting place at the heart of one of the city’s most vibrant districts.

What made it possible was collaboration in the truest sense. ’s deep knowledge of the area set the foundation — but the result reflects everyone involved, from the first visions in the project group to the builders’ craft on site. Different perspectives, one shared goal.

Our involvement in Hjällbo goes beyond the square itself. Over recent years we have carried out safety-focused needs assessments and stakeholder engagement work – all part of a broader commitment to the district’s long-term development.
Generous planting, sculptural seating, an adventure climbing wall, and the iconic Hjällbolyktan, a lamp co-designed with young women from the neighbourhood, now bring the square to life.

White Arkitekter has a nearly 60-year connection to Hjällbo, having contributed to the district’s original urban expansion. Being part of its next chapter feels significant.

Photography: Julia Ekman



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