Architecture: New Swedish embassy in Washington

"House of Sweden" -the new Swedish embassy on 2900 K Street in Georgetown, Washington DC was inaugurated by the royals today. The architects are Gert Wingårdh and Tomas Hansen.






Top image from DN

Architecture: ...and look what they turned down!

This is actually what the same architect (as the one below) , Gert Wingårdh, first came up with! But the the politicians in Stockholm are just such a bunch of cowards! They thought it was just too spaced out and turned it down! So they chose to erect a building that is plain, blends in and will probably simply disappear... (sigh!)

Architecture: Progressive Stockholm

The new Landmark at Norra Bantorget.

Look! The front will be in glass. How progressive. Never, ever seen it before.