The Kasper Salin Prize Nominees 2020

Today Architects Sweden unveiled the four nominees for this year’s Kasper Salin Prize for the best building of the year 2020. The prize will be awarded on March 25 at the Arkitekturgalan in Stockholm.

Every year Architects Sweden award the Kasper Salin Prize to a Swedish building or group of buildings of high architectural quality. This year, these four buildings are nominated:

Kulturhusets ombyggnad (Stockholm)
Architect: Ahrbom & Partner arkitektkontor.
Client: Stockholms stad.
Photo: Johan Eldrot

Lindholmens Tekniska gymnasium (Göteborg)
Architect: KUB arkitekter.
Client: Lokalförvaltningen i Göteborgs stad.
Photo: Bert Leandersson

Kunskapshuset i Gällivare
Architect: Liljewall och MAF arkitektkontor.
Client: Gällivare kommun.
Photo: Anders Bobert

Norra Tornen (Stockholm)
Architect: OMA.
Client: Oscar Properties
Photo: OMA

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