Arkitekt thomas sandell

If you’ve an interest in design, Thomas Sandell is a name that will hopefully be familiar to you. The founder of one of Stockholm’s most high-profile architecture and design studios, Sandell & Sandberg, Thomas is at the very top of his game. His studio masterminds large-scale civic design projects throughout Sweden and beyond, with an impressive portfolio to its name that includes state-of-the-art schools, luxury hotels, social housing, futuristic tower blocks and even, as you’ll hear, floating houses. We sat down with him to learn more about his career progression, his attitude to architecture and what he’s learned from his 30 year career in design.

“When I first discovered architecture, I was in the military. I was an officer in the Swedish Amphibious Corps, and two of my colleagues were into architecture and I grew kind of curious about it. The three of us applied to architecture school in Stockholm together, and I just decided to do what they did. Ironically, when the letters came from architecture school, I was the only one who was accepted.”

“In first year, I was a really bad student. Then, I found my feet and became an architectu

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