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White Arkitekter
Gotemburgo, Suecia
Scandinavian studio behind the Sara Kulturhus in Skellefteå (Sweden), one of the tallest timber buildings in the world, combining theatre, gallery, library, museum and hotel in a CLT and glulam structure. White Arkitekter calculates that the building will be carbon negative throughout its life cycle: it stores twice the CO₂ emitted during its construction. The timber comes from forests within a 60 km radius and the building runs entirely on renewable energy, with a geothermal pump and 1,200 m² of solar panels on the roof.
- Category
- Architecture
- Region
- Gotemburgo, Suecia
- Official website
- whitearkitekter.com
Why we chose it
Because they demonstrate at the scale of a large public facility that a timber building can be carbon negative throughout its life.
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- Where is White Arkitekter located?
- White Arkitekter is based in Gotemburgo, Suecia.
- Why is White Arkitekter in the Descarboniza directory?
- Because they demonstrate at the scale of a large public facility that a timber building can be carbon negative throughout its life.
