Architecture in Sweden

Discover 35 places to experience unusual architecture in Sweden.

Diving Seagull sculpture.

Stockholm, Sweden

Dykande Måsen

A concrete Picasso in the middle of a student housing complex on the outskirts of Stockholm.

HSB Paternoster lift.

Stockholm, Sweden

HSB Paternoster lift

Stockholm's last remaining paternoster elevator.

A part of the sconce inside of the office building.

Stockholm, Sweden

Johanneshovs Skans (Johanneshov Sconce)

Part of an abandoned19th-century fortress hides in plain sight inside a modern office building.

Stockholm, Sweden

Solar Egg

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

It's difficult to imagine, but this charming house was once a police station.

Gothenburg, Sweden

Old Police Station at Slottsskogen

The charming storybook building now houses a small police museum.

Jakriborg.

Hjärup, Sweden

Jakriborg

This cobblestoned medieval-style town was entirely constructed in the 1990s and 2000s.

Stockholm Public Library

Stockholm, Sweden

Stadsbiblioteket (Stockholm Public Library)

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

Dragon Gate.

Älvkarleby S, Sweden

Dragon Gate

Not quite the cultural gateway between China and Sweden its designer imagined.

Icehotel

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

Øresund Bridge

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

Trojaborg Labyrinth.

Gotland

Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.

Feskekôrka

Gothenburg, Sweden

Feskekôrka - The "Fish Church"

A Gothic-inspired fish market is Gothenburg's best place to find loaves and fishes.

Skinnskatteberg, Sweden

STF Kolarbyn Eco Lodges

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

Boden N, Sweden

Treehotel

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

(Flickr/Björn Söderqvist)

Turning Torso

Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist.

Pionen's Network Operations Center. Complete with fog.

Stockholm, Sweden

Pionen Data Center

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.