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Have not been able to find much out about this little guy but had lost two auctions before for one of these and found this and swooped it up like lightning!

 

Wonderwater Frozen Lights will be a dramatic installation of ice lanterns in Helsinki’s Senate Square to celebrate the Open Doors Weekend of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012.

The display will help raise awareness of the water footprint. Two massive ice blocks from Lapland each represent the water footprint of 3 873 litres used daily per person in Finland, while 150 litre ice lanterns represent the domestic use per person in Finland.

Illuminating the darkest season of the year, Wonderwater has invited designers and architects to sculpt lanterns on site. The designer teams include: Artek Studio, Ilkka Suppanen, Team Brita Flander, Sebastian Jansson & MottoWasabi, Architect Group A6 and Team Aalto University. In the sprit of WDC Helsinki 2012 theme of openness and collaboration, the people of Helsinki are invited to participate by designing their own ice lantern and bringing it to the event or share their designs on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/wonderwaterevents. A jury will award prizes to the best Frozen Light design in each class.

Wonderwater and WWF Finland Wonderwater is joining forces with WWF Finland to raise awareness of the water footprint. ”Finland is one of the richest countries when it comes to water resources. A significant part of the products that Finns use, like groceries and cotton, however, originate in areas with limited water resources. Our consumption habits affect the state of water environment. WWF wishes to devote more attention to tackling the issue of the water footprint in Finland. Together with Wonderwater, we can illustrate this issue in an interesting way”, says Jussi Nikula, WWF Finland Program Manager.

Schedule 4 Feb. 9 am – 4 pm Watch Frozen Light design workshops (by invitation) in Senate Square 12 – 4.30 pm Bring your own ice lantern to Senate Square 4.30 pm Lighting of Frozen Lights 5 – 6 pm Jury evaluation + prize ceremony

 

Architect: Sven Markelius
Built in: 1932
Builder: AB Skånska Cementgjuteriet
Client: AB Helsingborgs Konserthus

The Helsingborg Concert Hall was of great importance as the first functionalist monumental building in Sweden. It was designed by Sven Markelius and was finished in 1932.

In 1925 a competition was launched and Markelius was invited. He had earlier, in 1918, come up with a proposal for a Concert Hall. Markelius came in third place in this competition after Lars Israel Wahlman and Ragnar Östberg. Due to economic reasons, none of the projects were realized, and instead the proposals were revised to fit a tighter financial framework in a new contest in 1926.

In this new competition Markelius got the first prize and therefore the final contract to provide the blueprints for the building. The proposal from 1926 was revised several times until 1930 when the final disposition was completed. Markelius engaged Mogens Mogensen in the work and the Concert Hall was completed in 1932 with a concert hall and cinema in the higher part and with entrance and a restaurant in the lower end.

The Concert Hall is almost unchanged since it was built and it became a listed building in 1997.

More pictures of Sven Markelius work

 

Architect: Ragnar Östberg (older part, 1929) and Helge Zimdal (newer part, 1962)
Built in: 1929, 1962
Client: Svenska Eldbegängelseföreningen i Hälsingborg

The Crematory was built in two phases; Architect Ragnar Östberg, well-known for the construction of the City Hall in Stockholm, was commissioned to design the first part, which consisted of the island with the Temple and a temple courtyard surrounded by a canal. In 1962 expanded the facility under architect Helge Zimdal’s management and the remaining sections were added.

The artwork “the Beams of Hope” (Hoppets strålar – in Swedish) in glass. It is created by the artist Edvin Öhrström. The beautiful artwork is placed in the atrium just outside the entrance to the chapels. Öhrström is more known for the sculpture Crystal Vertical Accent, Kristallvertikalaccent (in Swedish), the glass pillar at Sergels torg, Stockholm.

More information about the facility at the Swedish Church’s pages (in Swedish). Here you can see older pictures from different eras.

More pictures of Ragnar Östberg’s work.

 

Architect: Jaenecke & Samuelson – Fritz Jaenecke and Sten Samuelson
Built in: 1967
Client: AB Hälsingborgshem

Hamilton House is actually the name of the farm that formerly stood at the site, built by Count Hamilton. The Danish architect Ferdinand Meldahl should have been responsible for the design in 1851-52. The original Hamilton House burned to the ground in 1868. A new building was built the same year with Mauritz Frohm as an architect and Count De la Gardie as project contractor. In the early 1960s Hamilton House was sold and in the beginning of 1965 it was torn down.

On the site it was decided to build the giant complex Hamilton 3 in 1967. It includes both commercial and service buildings and a long six-storey residential building. The designs and drawings came from the consulting firm Jaenecke-Samuelson AB.

The brutalist concrete building stretches out its about 180-meter long façade and is, to say the least, eye catching. The Building has clear references to Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation, with its rough concrete and thick pilotis. The property also includes an underground garage.

The building is currently classified as an especially valuable building in the conservation program (in Swedish) for the city of Helsingborg and is considered a good example of prefabricated buildings at the time.

More designs by Jaenecke & Samuelson . Here you find pictures of Architect Sten Samuelson’s and Architect Fritz Jaenecke’s own work