cy / sal sun 🐚

I also find it hilarious when they are referred to as ‘stockholmsarkitekterna’. You look at their backstories and tell me how that’s even remotely true. Post-KTH/KKH sure maybe but come on! Let’s have some regional representation?

I would like to report this is no longer the case. One of the Sweden round two outcomes was obtaining the holy grail. And it was less than 2000kr! 🕊️ Now, just the bostadskatalog to go…

The more I look, the more I realise how much stuff they actually built. Apart from the Swedish architect trope of doing either a church or a cemetery, they did everything else! And they were so good! Truly the biggest sleeper hit of 20thC Swedish architectural history

It is unreal that everyone seems to be baffled by the fact that I like Wejke & Ödeen. Guys you’re missing out… 🙂‍↔️ As (possibly) the biggest W&Ö fan in existence right now, I offer you the W&Ö bingo, or how to identify a W&Ö building in the wild:

Yorke my favourite average guy!! 🫶🫶

Painted my ceramic pots
The sun could've been better but for a first try I'm happy ☀️

Ignore this non-architectural whining which is relevant to no one but I heard him on P1 yesterday and I just 😞😞 I want my book signed too… and need the next Hallandssviten instalment already….

My favourite Swedish crime author is going to Klas Anshelm’s Stadshallen in Lund (1968) for an event and I’m sad to be missing it, so here are some building pics instead. Featuring my little adventure upstairs which was technically booked for an event & had a sign but no barriers 😗🕵️‍♀️

📝 Pay no mind to this, but a few rambling thoughts buried in IG captions as an attempt to put into words some feelings.

📸 Of everything from this visit, I was particularly struck by this moment:

Sketches for the Summer 🍁

Back to Klippan posting to get a few reflections out of my head. Photo + text below 🕯️

#sigurdlewerentz #illustration #architecture

FYI I’m not religious (agnostic) but go to services in these buildings to see what they’re like when used! Plenty of music. The mass I went to this time had 5 psalms + a few other musical intermissions. Here’s a video taken at a different church from when I accidentally walked into a baptism(!):

Yet another church on the hill. Some architects threw subtle shade at me for not taking a proper picture of the front door which, yeah okay, fine, I accept that…

Sorry I started several threads while travelling and then got distracted by another 100 buildings… oops. Some more pics. Fun pulpit, that:

As someone who works in a New Town and fighting for its brighter future everyday, thank you & Thomas Heatherwick can go to hell! 🥰

But guys the greenest building is the one that’s already there!! 😭🫠

A little art vs life:

KERSTIN RÄÄF. Lithograph, Signed, Numbered 2/50. Approx. 33 x 25 cm¨ Frame, ca. 53 x 46 cm

So this is the kind of art you create if you've spent part of your childhood in Villa Jeanneret? auctionet.com/en/4525438-k...

Klippan, late summer

This time some details from the main space: good door, where the numbers go, the floating cross, and candle holders

Moments

It’s not me in Skåne without a trip to Klippan, and this time I got a look inside the parish hall. Sigurd Lewerentz I thought I was familiar with your game but clearly I wasn’t. This timber roof??!

I’m beginning an archive digitisation project + looking for a high-quality portable/handheld scanner…. any recommendations?

Maybe it’s because I have the ArkDes postcard of him on my shelf at home that I feel less pressed about seeing him. Either way, it’s nice to say hi to the real deal. Shoutout to my fav Malmö bus line nr 5 that gets me to all my favourite places! 💚

Sweden round two summary, Tallum edition: 2/2 💐

I’ve yet to find the perfect pretty bouquet for Lewerentz. So far I’ve bought him nice flowers twice (even if he’s just a patch of grass now he deserves love too!) but I’ve not been quite satisfied. I’ll keep trying.

#sigurdlewerentz #illustration

CHEERS TEL.

As an aside, I went back to say hi to A properly at sunset (too much construction around him in daytime). I gave him three cards and they were all face down when I left the flowers. But when I came back the one I wrote as his bday card was turned up. I wrote on all three FYI. I wondered who read it.

There’s an unreal chain of events from ‘I saw bob hund in Oslo’ to ‘I got inside Gunnar Asplund’s Rådhuset in Gothenburg’. The way it happened means I have no explanation except for ‘Asplund let me see it’. Funnily enough, going with a bunch of Norwegians had nothing to do with Oslo. Thanks A ily…

Sweden round two summary, Tallum edition: 1/2 🌲

I can’t tell if, when Asplund let me go see Rådhuset, he was going for ‘if I let you see this would you stop trying to get married in there 😊’ or ‘here you go, go scope out your wedding venue 😘’

#gunnarasplund #illustration