Architecture

Image © C.F. Møller Architects The development, named Zenhusen (the Zen Houses), is part of a large urban development project to transform a former industrial area on the harbour of Stockholm into the city’s new high-profile environmental area called Norra Djurgaardsstaden. Image © C.F. Møller Architects The 18 homes stand right on the edge between the city and a nature reserve, neighbouring a former gasworks turned into a cultural centre and the Husarviken stream. The architecture is inspired by the gasworks’ red bricks and simple geometry as well as by the area’s green qualities, characteristically expressed in the warm tones of weather-ing steel facades combined with lighter wooden facades. Image © C.F. Møller Architects The residences, five different types all in all, will be built as staggered modules, a solution creating unique homes with rich daylighting and splendid views of the waterside. Through the ingenious and rational composition of simple volumes, the re...