TELE2 ARENA BY WHITE ARKITEKTER

The investment also includes new commercial spaces, hotels and offices beside the existing Söderstadion arena. The large public spaces that surround major arena projects have largely been integrated into the arena.

The has been taking place in various forms in the office for ten years. It was introduced as a parallel assignment in 2002 with subsequent investigations into size and location.

In 2007, the project took on more concrete form with a basic procurement procedure for a total contractor being progressed in collaboration with Arup Sport and WSP.

Peab won that procurement process and, since 2010, White has been project designing system and construction documentation together with the client, total contractor and other consultancies in shared premises.

A retractable roof makes it possible to hold sporting, concert and other events all year round. For concerts, the arena can accommodate audiences of up to 40,000. Excellent views and closeness to the event provide an outstanding experience.

The whole project came at a cost of SEK 2.7 billion, which was paid for by the city of Stockholm, who therefore also own the arena.

It accommodates approximately 30,000 seated spectators, and up to 40 000 spectators at concerts or similar events (standing spectators included).

The exterior of the Tele2 arena is dressed with a transparent façade consisting of folded, perforated and polished aluminium plates. The idea is that the visitor should be able to see the surroundings through glass sections and plating.

The interior of the Tele2 Arena is characterized by bright and open spaces where the decor is dominated by light wood. Finishes and furnishings follow the Nordic design tradition with simple and robust materials. Inspired by the Nordic light and the Nordic nature.

Construction of the Tele2 Arena started in late 2010 and works were completed in July 2013. Several delays pushed back an initial completion date of December 2012.

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Architect: White Arkitekter

Project Team: Fredrik Källström, Monica von Schmalensee, Magnus Croon, Jesper Källgren, Raimo Joss, Mats Anslöv, Elin Hammarsten, Björn Norén, Joacim Wahlström, Dirk Noack, Bengt Mührer, Jens Hansson, Björn Tegnell, Thomas Rudin, Eva Fabricius, Magdalena Franciskovic, Sofia Waernulf, Erik Eriksson, Robert Niziolek, Anders Bobert, Hampus Trotzig, Rosmari Johansson

Project start/end: 2000 - 2012

Completed: 2013

Client: SGA (Stockholm Globe Arenas)

WHITE ARKITEKTER WINS THE FAR ROC COMPETITION

After extensive deliberation, the jury selected “Small Means and Great Ends” by Stockholm-based firm White Arkitekter as the winning design solution.

The FAR ROC design competition drew submissions from 117 project teams around the world. Small Means and Great Endsincorporates a series of small, affordable, and smart interventions that center on three strategies: reduce and control damage; provide access in the event of a storm; and ensure quick recovery.

The design aims not only to better weather future natural disasters, but also to create a stronger socio-economic environment–moving beyond resilience and becoming ‘antifragile’, where both the design and community benefit and improve after enduring stress.

“Our winning proposal aims to transform an 80-acre shoreline site in the Rockaways into a resilient and affordable community through a series of small interventions that can be tested, adjusted, or redesigned overtime during the development process.

The goal is to create an authentic urban development; a new home for the community of Arverne East, a lively and beautiful environment that interacts, rather than counteracts with the sea and responds to natural forces.

The design proposes the implementation of a series of interconnected small scale interventions that together disperse and direct wind and flooding in order to bring down the force of nature and direct away from the proposed mixed use development. The development will be set back from the shore of the built area giving space for a nature reserve.

This ecological zone dissipates the ocean’s energy during a storm and forms a new landscape with shallower and calmer water that provides opportunities for leisure and education uses near the new boardwalk. Two large landscape parks cut through the area, as boulevards. The boulevards function both as storm water detainment and retention and as Public Park.

Public recreational functions are gathered on the pier, such as a hotel, theatre and sport accommodations. A new sandbar landscape in the sea is proposed to be organically developed with prefabricated concrete elements or locally available rocks, functioning as a detached breakwater in the sea. The sandbar landscape protects the hinterland during flooding.

The new boardwalk has a gap on the landside and is elevated where possible to minimize the impact of storm water on the structure. The boardwalk is ‘kinked’ to disperse storm water. The sides are permeable for water and wind, and the handrails are designed to prevent damage during a storm. Our urban strategy aims to create an inclusive community that will enable all members to flourish.

It respects all citizens and provides opportunities for them to engage in decision-making processes that affect their lives directly. The housing program is inspired by the Scandinavian Model of economic efficiency and welfare state benefits, establishing an appropriate and responsive programme with a healthy mix of housing types supported by commercial and public services and social places” says the architects.

Location: New York City, USA 
Architect: White Arkitekter 
Project Team: Sander Schuur, Geoff Denton, Sam Keshavarz, Tobias Lindqvist Ottosson, Christoph Duckart, Pontus Pyk, Steven Rowland, Karl Tyrväinen, Martin Login 
Project start/end: 2013 
Client: The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development 
Photographer/illustrator:MIR

STOCKHOLM WATERFRONT BY WHITE ARKITEKTER

“Stockholm Waterfront neighbours Stockholm Central Station, with Arlanda Express and the bus terminal only a few steps away. The site in question is the most highly visible in Stockholm, passed by tens of thousands of train passengers and cars every day.

It has the best possible location beside Riddarfjärden and close to Stockholm City Hall. The project is subdivided into three separate buildings. A lower-lying congress and concert hall closest to Riddarfjärden, an office block facing onto Klarabergsgatan and a hotel with just over 400 rooms directly adjacent to the congress building.

The triangular site, squeezed in between railway and road links, would seem rather cramped considering the programme specification for a congress hall to accommodate 3,000 people and a dining room to seat 2,000 guests.

The upper seating assemblies accommodate 1,500 people and allow rapid conversion into two separate halls. The seating assemblies can be moved aside to make room for 2,000 banquet guests” says the architects.

The glass façades are 1,040 m2 solar collectors that on average gather 1 MW of heat energy on a daily basis. This is equivalent to 90,000 normal low energy bulbs. Heating and cooling is distributed in a concordant system. Heat is moved and distributed between the different buildings - from surplus to shortfalls.

The building is cooled by water drawn from the lake which is stored in 250 tonne of ice tanks in the basement. What's more - in the construction of the centre, a large part of material reused from the building previously occupying the site. The world-class energy solution was designed to cut CO2 emissions and minimize impact on the environment and climate change.

This approach to energy preservation is not typical when it comes to building construction; instead inspiration was drawn from the process industry. It has ensured that Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre is one of the most energy efficient buildings in the world. Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre has been designed and built to provide maximum flexibility.

Hight-tech solutions mean that our 14,000 m2 of floor space can be easily converted in a multitude of ways to suit the needs of any event imaginable. The building is an architectural masterpiece - dominated by steel, glass and several types of specially formulated types of concrete. The inside is no less complex.

Walls, ceilings and even our stage can be moved, sectioned off or raised. Apart from the modularized floor space, state-of-the art solutions in terms of lighting, communications and A/V are built into the facility. The building also has a highly specialized energy system - making the venue greener than green - is moduled on the complex but highly effective solutions found in the process industry.

All heating and cooling is controlled by advanced data systems that are set to calculate how much energy is needed to operate cooling compressors and how much energy will be required by the facility in the coming hours, and so on.

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Architects: White arkitekter

Project Team: Bengt Svensson, Hans Forsmark, Raimo Joss, Bengt Mührer, Linda Thiel, Karin Planting-Bergloo, Kaveh Ghorashi, Mats Anslöv, Thomas Peinert, Robert Niziolek, Mats Holmberg

Year: 2011

Area: 72 000 m2

Cost: SEK 1,5 billion

Client: Jarl Asset Management

Photographer/illustrator: Åke E:son Lindman, Wojtek Gurak