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  London Festival of Architecture: Places for Girls – how to make our cities more inclusive

  How do girls experience the urban environment? Not the same way boys do. On June 18 and 19, as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2018, White Arkitekter invites festivalgoers to experience the city from a girl’s perspective through a piece of street theatre.

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  White Arkitekter wins competition for new urban centre in Halmstad, Sweden

  White Arkitekter's proposal for a new center for urban life at Österskans in Halmstad, Sweden, has won a land transfer competition. Located on the Nissan River, new Österskans offers something for all ages and is a place where visitors and the people of Halmstad congregate to enjoy culture, shopping and leisure activity.

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  Bråtejordet School wins architecture and urban development prize in Norway

  White Arkitekter’s design of Bråtejordet School in Strømmen, Skedsmo Municipality, Norway, has won the municipality’s architecture and urban development prize.

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  What happens when we move from words to action?

  How does architecture and urban planning change when the concept of social sustainability actually moves from words to action? This is the theme for the next breakfast seminar in the series ”Good morning Gothenburg!”, on Friday 23 March.

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  Skellefteå Cultural Centre wins Architectural Review/MIPIM Future Project Awards 2018

  White Arkitekter's all-timber design for Skellefteå’s new cultural centre has won the Civic & Community category in the 2018 Architectural Review/MIPIM Future Project Awards. The Awards celebrate excellence in unbuilt or incomplete projects around the world.

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  We all win if we help each other!

  The business models of today contribute to ambiguity and increased costs for all players within the built environment. If we are clear in our intentions and manage projects based on the right conditions, we help one another do business smarter, says Nina Borgström. 

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  Meet White Arkitekter at MIPIM 2018

  We will be present at MIPIM 2018, the premier real estate event, March 13-16 in Cannes, France.

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  How planning and designing public space can support outdoor recreation

  A sustainable and healthy way of living calls for cities planned with opportunities for outdoor recreation. How can we manage to plan smart cities where an increasing need for large numbers of housing is combined with great opportunities for outdoor recreation?

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  Skellefteå Culture Centre by White Arkitekter finalist in MIPIM Awards 2018

  The new cultural centre in Swedish town Skellefteå has been shortlisted in the Best Futura Project in the prestigious MIPIM Awards. Housing venues for arts, performance and literature as well as a hotel, the cultural centre is the Nordic region’s tallest timber building to date.

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  Wood – nature’s smartest building material

  Wood is good - and in Scandinavia, the supply is almost unlimited. In fact, the Swedish forest only needs 60 seconds to produce all the wood required to build a six-storey house in nature's smartest building materials.