Gothenburg Cable Car Development, Swedish Gondola Project, Public Transport Architecture
Gothenburg Cable Car
The Gondola Project in South West Sweden – design by UNStudio, Architects
9 Feb 2018
Gothenburg Cable Car
Design: UNStudio
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Gothenburg paves the way for the future of urban public transport – UNStudio’s design selected for the new Gothenburg Cable Car
Friday 9th February 2018 – Kjellgren Kaminsky are the local architects for the project, while Knippers Helbig are the structure and engineering advisors. Licht&Soehne advised on the lighting design.
UNStudio?s design has been selected as the winning entry in the competition for the Gothenburg cable car. Proposals were also submitted by BIG, WilkensonEyre and White Arkitekter with Diller, Scofidio+Renfro.
The new cable car system will comprise one cable car line with four stations and six towers and is one of a number of projects undertaken by the City of Gothenburg to mark its 400th anniversary in 2021. The cable car system, which will provide fast and efficient aerial transport across the city, will be the first new mode of public transportation in Sweden since the subway was introduced in Stockholm in the 1930s.

For the people and the City of Gothenburg the cable car will provide an alternative form of public transport by way of aerial shortcuts across the RiverCity. Travel times will be significantly reduced with minimum environmental impact, while an efficie...