Tengbom’s Stockholm office has been awarded the Golden Chair Interior 2024 (Guldstolen Interiör 2024), a prestigious interior design award in Sweden.

Photo: Emil Fagander.

Jury’s Statement

Initiated by their own office relocation to the other side of town, and with the goal of making employees feel free, the nominated team has created a space that promotes creativity. The framework was formulated in two important points. The first was based on colleagues’ desire for a warm feeling and stated: no white color. The second addressed sustainability and reuse requirements and stated: no glue.

The result is an interior where everyone gathers under the warm pink ceiling. The wooden floors from previous tenants have been preserved, and their own furniture has moved to the new address. Similarly, fixed furnishings from the old office have been cared for and screwed in place here, often with smart modular thinking, to ensure disassembly and promote circularity.

The project includes ingenious solutions that also add playfulness and inspiration. The material library, placed openly in the landscape, bright in northern light and with functional display surfaces, provides color richness, materiality, and sound dampening. Arches that supply workstations with electricity give stability to the landscape, here and there with integrated plant containers. Another fine solution is the mirror portal to the staff kitchenette, whose transparent splash guard surprises by simultaneously belonging to the entrance’s serving corridor. Meeting rooms with lighting that mimics studio lights support digital meetings.

The entrance room’s large skylight, whose lining is a shiny, bubbly sheet metal with neon strips, casts down light during daylight hours, and when covered creates a nightclub atmosphere. Ready for parties and celebrations!

Winner’s Motivation

A permissive interior that tolerates changes and can be supplemented over time. An office with smart modular solutions scented with linseed oil stain and filled with warm colors. The goal to support, energize, and simultaneously provide a kind of direction has been more than fulfilled. Tengbom’s employees have received a new workplace to inhabit, and the kamikaze mission of designing for colleagues has been completed – with honors!

The Team

• Architectural firm: Tengbom
• Responsible architects:
  • Mark Humphreys, Architect MSA, Project Manager
  • Katya Högberg, Architect SIR/MSA/MFA, Lead Interior Architect
  • Viveka Bunke, Architect, Project Leader
  • Pascaline Salzedo, Architect SAR/MSA, Administrator
  • Stefan Samuelsson, Construction Engineer, Administrator
  • Mårten Tovle, Interior Architect, Contributor
  • Eva Brännvall, Project Manager
• Other contributors:
  • Jonas Lindahl, Lighting Designer, Ljusrum
  • Carolin Fischer, Lighting Designer, Ljusrum
  • Johan Lindblom and Stefan Lyngfalk, HVAC, QREO
  • Karl Thissner, Electrical Engineer, Electro Engineering
  • Anna Lilja, Fire Engineer, Care of Brand and Risk
• Property Developer: Atrium Ljungberg
• Client: Tengbom
• Address: Hälsingegatan, Stockholm

Photo: Felix Gerlach

Photo: Emil Fagander.