Norra Tornen, Stockholm Apartment Building, Architecture, Swedish Real Estate, Architects, Images
Norra Tornen in Stockholm, Sweden
Housing Development in Sweden – design by OMA / Reinier de Graaf
8 Nov 2018
Norra Tornen
Design: OMA / Reinier de Graaf
Location: Torsplan 8, 113 65 Stockholm, Sweden
Norra Tornen
OMA / Reinier de Graaf?s Innovationen Tower has opened to the press this morning in the presence of OMA Partner Reiner de Graaf, Oscar Engelbert, CEO of Oscar Properties, Karin Björnsdotter Wanngård, Mayor of Stockholm, Torleif Falk, Stockholm?s City Architect and Ines Coppoolse, the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Sweden.

The Innovationen Tower is the first completed building of the two Norra Tornen residential towers designed by OMA / Reinier de Graaf and located in Hagastaden, a new district in the north of Stockholm developed around the Karolisnka Institute, which awards the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Norra Tornen?s design is the expression of a modular system of precast exposed concrete elements. They articulate in a composition of alternating bay windows and recessed terraces ? a tribute to Brutalist architecture, which, according to architecture critic Reyner Banham, was invented in Sweden. With a wall-to-floor ratio coming close to 1 the design would have probably discouraged most developers (for a tower, it rarely goes above 0.5). However, in a country with scarce daylight for half of the year, extra square meters of windows and multiple orientatio...