Wingårdh Architects

Sixty seconds is all it takes for Swedish forests to grow enough to produce an entire nine-storey residential building. ”We all strive for a sustainable society. As architects, we can help through the decisions we make about what materials to use,” says Gert Wingårdh, founder of Wingårdh Architects. ”There are very few construction tasks that cannot be solved using wood,” says the architect. The supporting material of the residential building at Hamngatan in Sundbyberg weighs just a third of what the same building made of conventional steel and concrete would. Imagine the impact in terms of saved resources during the transportation of the building to the site. ”