NATIONAL-ROMANTISMUL NORDIC

ASPLUND,LEWERENTZ,SAARINEN

Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885-1940)

On behalf of the City of Stockholm, the City Cemeteries Administration is arranging an invited international architectural competition for a new crematorium at the Woodland cemetery, listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The new crematory is to complement Gunnar Asplund’s world-famous Woodland Crematorium dating 1940. Up to five architects will be invited to the competition.

Caruso St John Architects LLP, Great Britain White arkitekter AB, Sweden BIG ApS , Denmark/ Topotek 1, Germany Johan Celsing arkitektkontor AB, Sweden/ Müller Illien Landschaftarchitekten, Switzerland Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, Japan/KacicLidén Landscape Architect, Italy

Stockholm Public Library / Gunnar Asplund

Ledoux: Rotonde de la Villette, Paris

The genius of Asplunds architecture is not only its symmetric compositions and its well proportioned spaces- it’s in his plans, that show that he allows them to grow by only giving them a kind of basic order; that’s the classical organicism of Asplund’s architecture; his buildings are- by their origin – allowed and claimed, thought to grow!

Villa Snellman | Eric Gunnar Asplund

Stockholm Library – winner: Heike Hanada – Laboratory of Art & Architecture, Weimar, Germany

Wall of Knowledge at the Stockholm Public Library, Sweden - S

Designed for the International Competition of Architecture, students from the Architecture School of Paris La Siene imagined this incredible concept! The Wall of Knowledge, the Stockholm Public Library concept won the Master Award for an award winning Architectural Image

Woodland Chapel, Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden, Front perspective, sketch Erik Gunnar Asplund (Swedish, 1885–1940) with Sigurd Lewerentz (Swedish)

Arch. Asplund, Lewerentz

St Mark, Bjorkhagen, Stockholm. Sigurd Lewerentz.

Sigurd Lewerentz

St Marks Church, Bjorkhagen, Stokholm, 1956

St Peter Klippan Lewerentz

St Petri Klippan Sweden Lewerentz

St Knut St Gertrude

Sigurd Lewerentz Cementerio de Malmo 1955

Ezra Stoller

A drawing, a column study, part of the design work for the Trans World Airlines Terminal, in New York, circa 1956.

TWA Terminal, JFK Airport photography : Ezra Stoller

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Eero Saarinen and Kevin Roche working on a model for the TWA Terminal, c. 1958

Philip Johnson, speaking at the 2001 presentation, said of the proposal: “This building represents a new idea in 20th-century architecture, and yet we are willing to strangle it by enclosing it within another building. Imagine, tying a bird's wings up. This will make the building invisible. If you're going to strangle a building to death, you might as well tear it down.”

Plano de Detalle, Terminal de la TWA por Eero Saarinen

The Eero Saarinen-designed terminal will be transformed into a hotel and conference center, along with food and beverage offerings, retail space, a spa and fitness center, meeting facilities and a flight museum. “It is a great honor to be entrusted with the preservation and revitalization of this masterpiece by my personal architectural hero,” said Andre Balazs.(jan.2014)

Model of Washington Dulles International Airport, planned for construction near Chantilly, Virginia, circa 1958

Eero Saarinen, The Saint Louis Gateway Arch

Jefferson arch gateway by Eero Saarinen

General Motors Technical Center: Eero Saarinen 1949-1956

La escalera de General Motors. Eero Saarinen

Milwaukee war memorial center Eero Saarinen 1950

Milwakee war memorial center.Eero Saarinen 1950

Yale Hockey Rink, Eero Saarinen Architect, 1958, New Haven

David S. Ingalls Hockey Rink, circa 1959

Scale model of the David S. Ingalls Hockey Rink, for Yale University

Yoyogi National Gymnasium, by Kenzo Tange 1960

Balthazar Korab is barely visible photographing the interior of a model of Yale University's David S. Ingalls Hockey Rink

Miller house, in Columbus, Indiana, in 1957

Sverre Fehn