The 25,000m2 wooden hillside at the edge of
Stockholm’s treasured national park Gärdet celebrates its
official opening together with the city’s tallest new structure,
OMA’s Norra Tornen. Both buildings were inaugurated by BIG
Founding Partner Bjarke Ingels, Mayor of Stockholm Anna König
Jerlmyr, City Architect Torleif Falk, CEO of Oscar Properties
Oscar Engelbert and OMA Partner Reinier De Graaf.
“As far as I know a city has never inaugurated two buildings by
two world-famous architects on the same day. Norra Tornen and
79&Park are proof that it is possible to change and improve the
cityscape of Stockholm,” said Oscar Engelbert, CEO and Founder
of Oscar Properties.
Commissioned in the Spring of 2011 by Oscar Properties, BIG was
hired to create unique contemporary homes with generous views
and outdoor space, while remaining respectful to the national
park, neighboring buildings and nearby royal harbor Frihamnen.
79&Park is conceived as an inhabitable landscape of cascading
residences that combine the splendors of a suburban home with
the qualities of urban living: the homes have private outdoor
gardens and penthouse views of the city and Gärdet. The communal
intimacy of the central urban oasis offers peace and tranquility
while also giving the residents a feeling of belonging in the
larger community of 79&Park. Seen from a distance, 79&Park
appears like a manmade hillside in the center of Stockholm,”
said Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner, BIG.
79&Park is a porous residential building of 3.6m x 3.6m modules
organized around an open green courtyard. The building’s tallest
corner is lifted up to 35m in order to maximize the inflow of
natural daylight as well as views towards Gärdet and the
Frihamnen port for most of its units. The modules cascade down
to the building’s lowest profile at just 7m, gradually extending
the wooden development into the park. 79&Park appears like a
gentle hillside, seamlessly blending into the nature around it.
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The organic expression and cedar-cladding continues into the
green courtyard, where residents and visitors are met by
different sized plateaus that create small activity pockets and
spaces for amenities: a shared outdoor area with lush bushes,
flowers and trees, a dog daycare, a preschool and ample racks
for bicycle parking.
Nearly all of the 169 units have unique layouts, appealing to
the diverse group of residents across different age groups and
walks of life. The interior spaces are inspired by Scandinavian
design and touches from South American modernism that feature
tactile natural materials, including white oak floors and unique
wooden details. Ceramic granite is used in the bathrooms while
the kitchens boast natural stone. Large windows invite greenery
from the terraces and views from the national park into the
residences, creating a smooth transition between inside and
outside.
All dwellings in the building have access to private and shared
roof terraces. The terraced landscape features a rich variety of
plants—hardy perennials, trees and bushes are sprinkled across
the rooftops, appearing green and leafy throughout the different
seasons in the Scandinavian climate.
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The ground floor of 79&Park houses commercial spaces open to the
public, activating the edge of the plot. On the floors above,
residents enjoy views to the expansive, peaceful landscape of
Gärdet’s wild grasslands and heaths.
On the other end of Stockholm between Vasastan and Hagastaden, a
new gateway welcomes residents and visitors to the city. Norra
Tornen by OMA is Stockholm’s highest residential building
consisting of two twinning towers.
“I had four ‘dream architects’ when I started Oscar Properties
14 years ago; the world's leading architects who I knew had the
ability to take Stockholm’s cityscape to a new level. We have
already managed to get three of them here and today we
inaugurate 79&Park by Bjarke Ingels/BIG and Norra Tornen by
Reinier de Graaf/OMA. This is a great day, not just for Oscar
Properties but also for Stockholm,” concludes Oscar Engelbert,
CEO and Founder of Oscar Properties.
FACTS
CLIENT: Oscar Properties
COLLABORATORS: Acad International, Andersson Jönsson
Landskapsarkitekter, BIG IDEAS, De Brand Sverige, Dry-IT, HJR
Projekt-El, Konkret, Metator, Projit, Tengbom, HB Trapper
LOCATION: Stockholm, Sweden
SIZE: 25,000m2 / 270,000ft2
BIG–BJARKE INGELS GROUP
Partners-in-Charge: Bjarke Ingels, Jakob Lange, Finn
Nørkjær
Project Leader: Cat Huang
Project Manager: Per Bo Madsen
Project Architects: Høgni Laksáfoss, Enea Michelesio
Constructing Architects: Jakob Andreassen, Tobias
Hjortdal, Henrik Kania
Team: Agata Wozniczka, Agne Tamasauskaite, Alberto
Herzog, Borko Nikolic, Christin Svensson, Claudio Moretti,
Dominic Black, Eva Seo-Andersen, Frederik Wegener, Gabrielle
Nadeau, Jacob Lykkefold Aaen, Jaime Peiro Suso, Jan Magasanik,
Jesper Boye Andersen, Jonas Aarsø Larsen, Julian Andres Ocampo
Salazar, Karl Johan Nyqvist, Karol Bogdan Borkowski, Katarina
Mácková, Katrine Juul, Kristoffer Negendahl, Lucian Racovitan,
Maria Teresa Fernandez Rojo, Max Gabriel Pinto, Min Ter Lim,
Narisara Ladawal Schröder, Romea Muryn, Ryohei Koike, Sergiu
Calacean, Song He, Taylor McNally-Anderson, Terrence Chew,
Thomas Sebastian Krall, Tiago Sá, Tobias Vallø Sørensen, Tore
Banke
Photo by
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Laurian Ghinitoiu, Release: BIG
Group, New York