Liljevalchs+ | Wingårdhs

The addition to Liljevalchs Konsthall is reserved without cowering. Its posture is that of a discreet aide attending to the existing art gallery. A small, precisely tailored operation. One hundred seventy square meters of glass roof let the whole sky into the building. It’s all rather simple. A square filled with molded skylights. Two meters wide and two meters high. Two straight walls and two leaning. All the way up in the building a thin glass membrane separates inside from outside. Below, the light plays exactly the way we want it. 

Liljevalchs+ serves as a complement to the old art gallery, which continues to welcome visitors approaching from the main thoroughfare of Djurgårdsvägen, but our building faces Falkenbergsgatan instead. The differentiation between the two buildings is programmatic as well as visual. The original entrance, which is well established as fundamental to Liljevalchs and the experience of its architecture, will retain its primacy. Our addition provides more space for exhibitions, a secondary entrance, a museum shop, and the development of the café.

The original building has two levels: a basement with gallery spaces on top. The addition pretends to maintain the same arrangement, but in fact, it’s a split-level plan with floors at six different elevations throughout the building. It is rectangular in form, cast like a great concrete block. Glass artist Ingegerd Råman, who has been working with us on the project, has decorated the façades with crystal clear bottle bottoms, creating a grid of glass.

Liljevalchs+

Project name: Liljevalchs+

Category: Museum

Start of project: 2013
Building start: August 2017

Completed project: 2021

Location: Djurgården, Stockholm

Client: Fastighetskontoret Stockholms stad

Architecture firm: Wingårdhs Arkitektkontor AB

Responsible architect: Gert Wingårdh

Senior lead architect: Niklas Carlen

Project architects: Johan Israelsson and Fredrik Nilsson.

Project engieers: Stefan Nilsson, Alexandra Pripp and Andreas Dahlberg.

Facade art: Ingegerd Råman

Interior Design: Sara Helder & Gert Wingårdh, of Wingårdhs.

Landscape architecture: Ramböll

BTA (total): 2 600 sq m
LOA (total): 2 280 sq m

Construction: PEAB

Light design: Gabriele von Kardorff, Kardorff Ingenieure Lichtplanung & WSP

Acoustic: AFRY & Efterklang

Doors: Plåt och Ståldesing AB & HIAK & MaxiDoor

Photography credits: Christoffer Grimshorn & Johan Dehlin