Press release 

19-11-2018 

Spridd and Etat´s award winning design for the residential building in Norrköping is now realized. The project “Weave” won the international competition MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Award in 2013 in the prestigious category for residential houses. 

“Weave” has commercial spaces on the ground floor and underground garage. It is centrally located in Norrköping’s historic industrial inner-city landscape. The building completes a triangular city block in the dense urban landscape where three streets meet. The area was originally used by the textile industry and is now gradually converted to house offices, educational and cultural institutions, restaurants and housing. “Weave” is part of this urban transformation. 

The apartments are of different character: the ground floor apartment connect directly to the street and can be used for small-scale commercial activities or an atelier space combined with accommodation; apartments on the upper floors vary in size suitable for students as well as seniors and families with children. On the communal roof top terrace, each apartment has its own parcel with views of the cityscape. 

The architecture interprets certain characteristic themes of the industrial landscape such as large windows, local towers, repetitive and rational windows. The building’s facade is made of precast concrete with an undulating surface that gives a textile character to the facade; windows are done in gold anodized aluminum. 

Facts 

Project Name: Weave 

Architect: Spridd, Etat 

Award: Architectural Review Future Project Award 2013 

Location: Norrköping, Sweden 

Type: Residential building 

Year: 2016-2018 

Client: ED Bygg 

Framework: Steel and concrete 

Area: 3475 m2 

Illustration: Spridd och Etat 

Photo: Anders Fredriksén, Erik Törnkvist 

About Spridd 

Spridd is an architectural office based in Stockholm, since 2005. The office has established itself as one of Sweden’s most innovative architectural offices in urban development and architectural design through competitions, research, debates and completed projects. The projects vary from interior design to overall urban development plans. The office works from early idea stages and process work up to and including construction documents. Spridd currently consists of 10 architects and works within a network of established partners.