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Plans were revealed for a novel housing project designed by Herzog and de Meuron in Hjorthagen district, Stockholm. Herzog and de Meuron collaborated with Piet Oudolf and LOLA landscape designers to develop a historic brick gasholder site. The new project is the first for Herzog and de Meuron in Sweden.
Courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron / Oscar Properties
The project resides at Ekoparken, the National Urban Park, which was previously an industrial district distant from the city buzz. It is located near to the underground station, Ropsten, and it comprises several buildings. The industrial buildings were designed by Ferdinand Boberg, a Swedish architect, in the last century.
The project will preserve two brick gasholders as well as utilize another two steel buildings built later on a nearby hill.
The older, and smaller at the same time, of the two brick gasholders, will be mostly preserved through establishing an exhibition hall inside it. The bigger gasholder is a 100-meter-high building that will be developed into a 90-meter-high housing tower of mixed-use. It will comprise 45 storeys of residential units in addition to an art gallery at the bottom floor. There will also be a bakery, a café, a grocery shop, and a nursery for kids.
Courtesy of Piet Oudolf and LOLA Landscape Architects
Although the design of the tower is reproduced from the gasholder?s cylindrical shape, the plan was changed to permit daylight to...