Luis Fernández-Galiano   The work of Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård could well be described with a title of August Strindberg. He published Utopier i verkligheten in 1885, the year of birth of Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, masters of an architecture that had in their

Mauricio Pezo, Sofía von Ellrichshausen   There are two possible descriptions for the work of an architect; one description refers to the work as a practice and the other to the work as a building, or a series of buildings. In opposition to curators, historians or architectural critics’ comm

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The Swedes Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård Hansson founded their studio in Stockholm in 1999 with the ambition of presenting their work as an experimental alternative to conventional Swedish architecture. Their interventions cover different areas that

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   Inserted into the heart of the campus of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, putting a preexisting courtyard to good use, is this new architecture school building covering a total floor area of 9,140 square meters in six floor level

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The old electrical station of Malmö, in the south of Sweden, has been transformed into an art museum with an informal and experimental character that would complement the main museum in Stockholm. The greatest challenge posed by the project, (in addi

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   Located on the quayside of the Munksjön Lake, these two urban housing blocks are based on a long term strategy of sustainability. Rather than a row of standard housing slabs, the requested number of apartments was assembled into two large units. The

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The most sustainable buildings are those which remain in use the longest. Robustness is crucial to longevity, so solid and reliable construction methods are fundamental for a sustainable architecture. With this in mind, the design seeks to provide dy

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   This vacation home on the island of Gotland, in the Baltic Sea, is built on a slight ridge that marks the location of the coastline a thousand years ago. In relation to the open and expansive landscape, the building seems more like a low wall built a

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   Connected to its environment through a unifying platform, this summer house is located in the furthermost area of the archipelago of the Swedish capital, prompting different interpretations of the relationship between space and natural environment. T

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The single-family house in Stocksund, a residential area on the outskirts of Stockholm, is a long and thin block with cut-outs for light, double-heights, and a roof terrace. Through its position on the site, placed perpendicular to the property entra

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The client wanted a garden, and decided to leave an apartment in downtown Stockholm for a home on the Mälaren lakefront. In response to this desire, the house proposed becomes part of the vegetation by wrapping it in a trellis for vines and seven dif

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The site is located on the southwest coast of Sweden, in an old agricultural area gently sloping down towards the sea. In the midst of a vast and open cultivated landscape, this plot constitutes an exception as it is planted with many different trees

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The setting is the Stockholm archipelago, on a natural ground sloping gently down to the sea, mostly open with a few trees and bushes. Unlike other projects on sites without car access from the mainland, this one was relatively easy to reach also wit

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The site is on an island on the west coast of Sweden, and has a unique position perched on a steep mountain rock located close to the highest point in the landscape. It offers wide and open views over the sea and the horizon. The client wanted two ho

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   This small vacation home designed by the architectural firm Tham & Videgård is located on a strategic promontory of the island of Krokholmen, very close to the city of Stockholm. The wooden construction faces a forest of conifers on one side, and

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The external image is given by the superposition of three levels in a cross-shaped plan and rotated 45º from the previous one, generating a sequence of opaque surfaces combined with large terraces open to the landscape.

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The island of Gotland, where this vacation home has been built, is the least populated county in the country, and known internationally for its diverse animal and plant life. The house sits at the edge of an open landscape, slightly elevated on a for

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   To connect the campus with the surroundings, the new ensemble of buildings – which integrates the existing volume –, brings together all the art faculties, forming an urban block around a closed courtyard that becomes an outdoor workshop...

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   With a light structure of white steel columns and glass, the tower marks the entrance to the Congress Center, and houses a hotel with 400 rooms; the project seeks a direct and open connection with the place and with the urban fabric of the city...

Tham & Videgård   France   Winning proposal in the competition of the City of Paris for the Denfert Building located at the site of the former Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Hospital in the 14th arrondissement, the new 7400sqm building will mark the entrance to the new Saint-Vincent-de

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   As part of the expanding military academy at Karlberg Castle in Stockholm, the present historical context and the new building’s relation to the 17th century park are the starting point for this project. The new mess building is conceived as a freest

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The new block occupies the last corner of Sveavägen, the main street connecting Stockholm city to the north. It relates to a context of rather different scales and street characters: the large and busy scale of the main street in east and north, a lo