What's going on
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Climate Innovation District wins Housing Design Award
July 15, 2020
White Arkitekter’s Climate Innovation District in Leeds, UK, has been named as one of this year’s winning schemes at the Housing Design Awards. These prestigious cross-industry awards aim to drive quality in the whole process of housing delivery.
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Two of our architects join NLA’s Expert Panels
July 3, 2020
We are delighted to announce that we have two architects that will be joining NLA’s Expert Panels 2020. Linda Thiel will be joining the expert panel for Housing while Charlotte Ruben will be a part of the expert panel for Healthcare.
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What Stora Enso’s New Head Office could look like
June 24, 2020
Here is our proposal in the competition to design Stora Enso’s new office and a hotel in Katajanokka, Helsinki. It is a showcase for carbon neutral timber construction with a robust grid offering flexibility of use and configuration over the buliding’s life span.
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SJ’s Coach Interior Wins Prestigious Design Award
June 24, 2020
We are proud that SJ won the prize Best of the Best in the international design competition Red Dot Design Award. They are praised for the upcoming X2000 Train Coach Interior, which was a good, joyful and, for us, unusual collaboration between Happy F&B, SJ and White Arkitekter.
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White Arkitekter wins competition to design new waterfront park in Bergen
June 19, 2020
Today White Arkitekter was selected as the winner of the competition to design a new beach park and sea bath in Bergen, Norway. The proposal, called True Blue, is based on water, which is the most tangible element in Bergen. The exciting architectural approach creates a park which is both beautiful and sustainable.
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Circular Architecture is a Winning Concept
June 4, 2020
In order to limit climate change and preserve the Earth’s resources society needs to transition from a linear to a circular economy. There is a need for new ways of working and new business models that can facilitate the transition process. In the Selma Lagerlöf Centre in Gothenburg, White – through strong will and creativity – has succeeded in creating one of 2019’s best Swedish interior design projects, with 92% reused furniture- resulting in 70 percent lower costs compared with the use of new materials.
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Lower costs and emissions with reuse
June 3, 2020
In Uppsala, White is working on a project to transform two 1970s office buildings into modern premises that meet present-day requirements, while at the same time preserving or recycling as many of the original materials as possible. This is expected to save over SEK 100 million, as well as 3,800 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and almost two years of construction compared to demolition and building anew.
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New Service for Real Estate Developers Facilitates Reuse in Buildings
June 2, 2020
A starting point in all new building projects should be, can we reuse and adapt an existing building? Those questions are now much easier to find the answers to, thanks to our new service White ReCapture. The inventory of materials and building parts has been digitised and transparent through 3D scanning and specialist knowledge, which facilitates and maximises reuse.
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The New Exhibition Kiruna Forever Opens at ArkDes
June 1, 2020
How do you move an entire city? June 2, the exhibition Kiruna Forever opens at ArkDes in Stockholm. It is an exhibition about one of the biggest urban transformation projects in recent history, and that we have been working on since 2012.
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Webinar on The Hospital Response to the Pandemic Change
May 27, 2020
On Friday, May 29, Björn Holmström and Charlotte Ruben are invited to speak at EuHPN’s webinar "The Hospital Response to the Pandemic Change". Björn is Chief Medical Advisor at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge and was one of the the initiators of the new surgery and intervention building that we have designed.