Our working field is broad, with projects ranging from furniture and interior design to architecture and planning. We work in small and large scales, with offices, housing, public buildings, refurbishment projects, and more.
We strive for creative, tailor-made solutions to every unique project. Our aim is high-quality architecture, that can contribute to strengthening the identity of our customers. We have a special interest in environmentally friendly projects.
Today, the company has four partners and around 30 employees - architects, interior designers, and engineers. Hans Murman is our CEO and Wivian Eidsaunet is our vice CEO.
Selected projects: (links to pages in Swedish)
Restaurant Tusen in the Swedish ski resort Ramundberget seats 125 guests. It won the "Holiday" category at WAF in Barcelona 2009. The building, sitting on a hill between birch trees, brooks and rocks, has a strong relation to the landscape in shape, design and material. Its facade is clad with birch logs. The round shape offers a view of the surrounding mountains, and the south-facing entrance area forms a protected outdoor space.
Take a look at the reportage from Deutsche Welle TV.
In 2006, we won an open international architecture competition in two stages for a new Sami Parliament. Our proposal is built on a simple but expressive shape, embracing a large outdoor space that invites activities and gatherings. The northern facade will be covered with large wooden shingles, while the southern, double facade has an outer layer of glass and an inner layer of wood.
A simple wooden box, built by Hans Murman and Ulla Alberts in 2005, was covered with semitransparent plastic netting, printed with images of the juniper trees on the site. It was longlisted for Building of the Year at World Architecture Festival 2008, and published in Dwell September 2007.
This building with 39 apartments is situated in Stockholm´s new urban district, Stockholm Royal Seaport, which is to become a global showcase for sustainable urban development. The two strong directions that intersect on the site have led to the design of the building´s corner. The facade is clad with galvanized sheet iron. Building is planned to start in 2011.
In 2003, BCG moved into the 18th century General Customs Building, and remodeling of the building was necessary. The corridors and office cells from the 1930´s were demolished to create modern, open and transparent office spaces. Additions - like WCs, kitchenettes, and meeting rooms - were designed as separate units, clearly contrasting with the historical environment. We tried to express BCG´s creative and unconventional, yet reliable and confident company character.
In 2001, we won a competition about designing an apartment building a one of the few empty sites in central Stockholm. The building adapts to its context of older buildings, at the same time as it has a modern character. The plastered street facade is undulating, with balconies placed in the "valleys". The backyard facade is clad with wood, and has access balconies of glass blocks to provide light to the private outdoor spaces.
Kulturhus Skeppsholmen is situated in two connected buildings, that have been used by the Navy since the 1730´s until they moved out in the 1960´s. These buildings were remodeled to ensure accessibility, fire safety, and technical quality. The tenants, among them Theatre Galeasen, The Modern Dance Theatre, The House of Photography, The Kurdish Library, and the Centre of Folk Culture, plan to move back in 2010. We have worked with the project from sketch design to general contract.
The pharmaceutical company Pfizer wanted its new office building to be humane, warm and welcoming. It has the strict exterior of a rational and flexible office building, while the interior is more playful with different materials, colours, and patterns. The colour scheme is built on colour families, creating variation and identity, and facilitating orientation. Close to the central lobby are a restaurant and a conference centre with a well-equipped auditorium and conference rooms of varying sizes.
Sånga Säby is a conference centre with an environmentally friendly profile. We designed a new hotel building on the site in 1999, the first hotel in Sweden to get the "Svanen" environmentally friendly label. It is oriented toward the south, to take advantage of the warmth from the sun and the view of the lake Mälaren. The building follows the shape and the levels of the terrain. All materials and construction solutions have a minimal impact on the environment.