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Solar Egg Sauna in Kiruna
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8 May 2017
Solar Egg Sauna
Design: Bigert & Bergström
Location: Kiruna, Sweden
Swedish artist duo creates egg shaped sauna for Riksbyggen and Kiruna.

Riksbyggen is commemorating the start of Kiruna?s urban transformation project by opening SOLAR EGG, a public sauna art installation by prizewinning artistic duo Bigert & Bergström, to the city and its inhabitants.

Locals and visitors to Kiruna will this spring be able to enjoy a unique sauna experience in the form of SOLAR EGG, an art installation inspired by the contrasting and dynamic surroundings of Kiruna?s iron ore fields.
SOLAR EGG is an oval sauna created by the internationally renowned artists Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström. It draws inspiration from Kiruna?s Arctic climate, where light conditions change with the seasons from 24-hour winter darkness to round-the- clock midsummer sun. The egg shape seeks to symbolise rebirth and new opportunities at the start of Kiruna?s urban transformation, a project that involves the relocation of entire city districts in response to ground subsidence caused by decades of iron ore mining.

Mathias Sandberg, Riksbyggen sales and marketing director, says: ?As an urban developer, Riksbyggen takes an innovative approach to sustainability and long-term relations with local residents. We want the SOLA...