A crystalline landmark for Helsingborg
A crystalline landmark for Helsingborg
Schmidt Hammer Lassen - SHL
The project consists of a 16,900 m2 square metres large congress and hotel facility and 17,100 square metres large housing on the most attractive area of Helsingborg – the former central ferry dock Ångfärjan in the city centre. The new facilities will play an important part in the ongoing development of the promenade running the length of the city waterfront.
The building is characterised by a deformation of the grid into a crystalline expression that has coined the nick name “The Salt Crystals”. The twelve-storey hotel volume in the south east corner with its light, generic and broken facades will become the new landmark of the city.
The congress centre starts in three stories at the opposite end and grows gradually to become the twelve-storey hotel. The hotel has 230 rooms. The Congress and Hotel Centre runs along the sea promenade to meet the apartment blocks that are separated from the congress centre by a small pedestrian street. The apartments have the same salt crystal grid, while the facades have a shifting rectangular pattern to reinforce their open and light structure.
The two new structures will be an important catalyst for the city life in the harbour area with cafés, shops and several squares and green spaces for citizens and visitors.
The façade of the hotel with its broken expression is extended in the pavement across the plaza to the water edge connecting the vertical and horizontal surfaces.
The apartment blocks vary from two to nine stories. The highest unit is placed in the north corner of the block to provide sun and daylight from the south to all 130 apartments.
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