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  • The quest for the mixed forest

    Global biodiversity may be under severe pressure. But in Sweden's forests, the picture looks different.

  • Architecture in harmony with the forest

    In Germany there is a hospital that literally is embraced by dense pine and beech forest.

  • A unique and uplifting space

    Tree-like, load-bearing columns branching into cantilever beams create a unique, uplifting space at Credit Valley Hospital.

  • Putting people first

    When Nordic Arch took on the task of designing the LHL Hospital in Gardermoen, Oslo, the goal was clear.

  • Timber takes centre stage in the hospital of the future

    In Karlstad, Swedish healthcare architecture is taking a historic leap.

  • The timber school leads the urban transformation

    The first building in Stockholm Wood City now stands on Marcusplatsen in Sickla.

  • All eyes on the timber city

    Just south of Stockholm lies Sickla – a seemingly ordinary neighbourhood that has captured international attention.

  • Tellusborgshallen's spaces for movement

    On an almost forgotten gravel pitch, next to Stockholm's busiest motorway, now stands Stockholm's largest sports facility.

  • Big art in a small space

    In the tiny lift at Stockholm's Stadshotell, Klara Knutsson has used the technique intarsia to recreated scenes from the city.

  • Luftschiffhangar Mülheim – space for inner space

    When the airship Theo needed a permanent home in the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr, an extraordinary building was required.

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