Sweden – The next stop on the Stockholm leg of our research trip was White Arkitekter’s Stockholm office dubbed “Katsan”, which accommodates 400 employees in an exceptionally low energy building. The building sits along a canal connected to Hammarby Sjö, a small lake… Read more: White is Green: White Arkitekter’s Innovative Sustainable Stockholm Office

Sweden – As part of our visit to the Royal Seaport development in Stockholm we had an opportunity to get a tour of a Plus Energy residential building under construction (the most interesting phase of a project for us architects).… Read more: “Plus Energy” New Standard for City of Stockholm Royal Seaport Development

Sweden – To set the stage for the type of sustainable new developments being built in Sweden we kicked off our field research with a tour of Stockholm’s Royal Seaport Development. With the construction of 12,000 new homes and 35,000… Read more: Royal Seaport Development, Stockholm

Denmark – With Denmark on track to become the world’s first fossil fuel free country by 2050, we visited the State of Green’s headquarters to learn more about how the Scandinavian country is achieving this. The State of Green is… Read more: State of Green

Denmark – One of the most recognizable buildings on Copenhagen University’s campus is the Tietgen Dormitory, located just south of the city center. Architects Lundgaard & Tranberg envisioned a circular form that would suggest both the collective and individual spirits… Read more: Tietgen Dormitory

Denmark – We were fortunate last week to have Michael Christensen, Creative Director and Founding Partner of Christensen & Co., give us a tour of some of their projects at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). One of these projects,… Read more: Visit to DTU Compute – Christensen & Co

Denmark – Henning Larsen Architects is a well-established global firm that we visited in Denmark, whose projects range from large-scale masterplans of urban districts to wayfinding for interior design. Despite this incredible diversity, we learned that Henning Larsen’s work is… Read more: Visit to Henning Larsen

Denmark – While we often denote sustainability with environmental advances in energy efficiency, the broader meaning of sustainable architecture in Denmark includes social and economic sustainability as well. We visited a great example of an architectural response to social sustainability, the… Read more: Visit to Musholm – AART

Denmark – Yesterday we visited 3XN/GXN’s studio in an old gunboat shed in Holmen, Copenhagen. We learned about their combined research and architecture divisions and saw some of GXN’s material research first hand. To learn more about this research, see one of… Read more: Visit to UN City – 3XN/GXN

Sweden – Today we visited the “City of Tomorrow,” otherwise known as Bo01 in Malmö, Sweden. The site of a former brownfield along the city’s western harbour was developed beginning in 2000 as part of an international housing exhibition, and… Read more: Visit to Bo01 Development | Malmo, Sweden