- Sector: Corporate / Commercial
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- Architect/Specifier: Gert Wingardh
- Product(s): Beams & Baffles **V100 and Linear Ceiling V100 Screen Linear
In Stockholm, retro is back in style. Once a meat and sausage processing facility, this 1930?s konsum building on Södermalm in Stockholm was ?modernized? for the worst in the 1970s.
Originally known for its clean lines, ribbon windows, and functionalist spirit, the building lost its stature and plunged into disuse for many years. It wasn?t until 2000 that its landlord, Atrium Fastigheter AB, embraced a restoration method to return its dignity.
Local architect Gert Wingårdh sliced the 114-meter-wide original mass into office floors of 12 or 18 meters across. He also added two new wings and a grand atrium. Despite all these forward-thinking innovations, he looked backwards for inspiration; the overall scheme returned the building to its functionalist conception, but this time to serve the information economy.
Originally known for its clean lines, ribbon windows, and functionalist spirit, the building lost its stature and plunged into disuse for many years. It wasn?t until 2000 that its landlord, Atrium Fastigheter AB, embraced a restoration method to return its dignity.
Local architect Gert Wingårdh sliced the 114-meter-wide original mass into office floors of 12 or 18 meters across. He also added two new wings and a grand atrium. Despite all these forward-thinking innovations, he looked backwards for inspiration; the overall scheme returned the building to its functionalist conception, but this time to serve the information economy.
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