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Location
  
Gothenburg, Sweden

Founded
  
1951

Headquarters
  
Gothenburg, Sweden

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Founders
  
P. A. Ekholm, Sidney White

White is an architectural firm based in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is the biggest firm in Scandinavia, with more than 900 team members. The company has 16 offices in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and England.

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Background

The firm was founded in Gothenburg in 1951 by architects Sidney White (1917–1982) and P. A. Ekholm, and has since established offices in Stockholm, Malmö, Halmstad, Linköping, Örebro, Uppsala, Umeå, Västerås, Copenhagen, Næstved, Holeby, London, and Oslo. White has a shared ownership model between their employees, with more than 500 shareholders, of which ~130 are partners.

Notable projects

  • New Karolinska Solna University hospital – an ultramodern hospital facility which will open for business in 2016
  • Relocation of the city centre of Kiruna (2012-2040) - one of the biggest urban transformations of our time. The entire city will be moved approximately 3km (2 miles) east.
  • Kastrup Sea Bath, Denmark (2009) - a 328 foot long pier, redeveloping an industrial, rocky shoreline on the Øresund Strait.
  • Väven, Sweden (2014) - Kasper Salin Prize-winning Cultural centre in Umeå designed in collaboration with Norwegian practice Snøhetta.
  • Umeå East station, Sweden (2010) Railway station in Umeå built in connection to Bothnia Line (Botniabanan) in Northern Sweden.

    • Awards

  • RIBA Regional Awards East 2013 - Southend Pier Cultural Centre, UK
  • Kasper Salin Prize 2014 - Väven Cultural Centre, Sweden
  • Project gallery

    • References

    White (architecture firm) Wikipedia
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