The Skin the Building Lives In

On the new Tekniska Nämndhuset planned and developed future Stockholm, with new housing, workplaces and infrastructure for a growing population. It is a new city that is created and grown out of the old, open and welcoming city, self-sufficient in energy without the release of carbon dioxide, with a vital business sector that creates jobs and subsistence to its population, and with a construction that meets the growing city’s needs.

U.D. Urban Design AB and SelgasCano have won an international, invited competition to design the new Planning and Administrative Offices for the city of Stockholm, Sweden. Their project, “Drivhus” (Danish for “Greenhouse”) will be located south of the Stockholm city center, an area set for redevelopment. Along with a work space for 1,800 people, Drivhus will become an open, democratic space for civil servants, politicians and the public to meet and discuss future city developments. 

The entire project aims to catalyze the revitalization of a large urban space, like Globen Arena, the largest hemispherical building, which has an inner height of 85 meters and a seating capacity of 16,000 spectators for shows and concerts and 13850 for ice hockey. New development turns the surrounding large-scale, event buildings into more human environments.

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