RÅÄNGEN

Råängen is a new neighbourhood on the outskirts of Lund in south Sweden. Over the next thirty years, the area will become a place for people to live, work, study and play. Lund Cathedral is spearheading the project, engaging architects, artists, developers, academics and members of the public in a conversation about how to build a community for the 21st century. Read more

What’s On

First homes at Råängen

Our first building projects are now underway. Five architects have been commissioned to develop residential buildings at Råängen.

They join Flores & Prats who have been developing Tower and Corner House, two buildings that will establish a relationship with our garden Hage, and a public square. Johan Celsing Arkitekt, Esencial, General Architecture, Gipp Arkitektur, and Lundvall Payne are working together to establish potential approaches that will define the relationship between buildings, scale, materiality and programme.

Online talk now on YouTube

Our online talk ‘What are we afraid of? – Longing, anxiety and hope in the age of AI’, involving an AI specialist, a priest and a film maker, raised a multitude of fascinating, terrifying, liberating topics.

Using Tor Lindstrand’s images of a possible future Råängen we spoke about opportunities to consider a future we don’t know; the importance of visualising spaces that involve dirt, disfunction and diversity as well as dynamics that are part of life; we considered the risks involved in thinking that we can handle and control reality; and we made a plea for more gaps, darkness and open space for reflection, resonance and creativity. Watch it here

Highlights

Building

Tower & Corner House

Flores & Prats are currently designing the first two buildings for Råängen: a timber tower and a lower building which establishes the corner of a future city block.

Building

Hage

Hage is a public garden for Råängen. Designed by Brendeland & Kristoffersen and Price & Myers, it is the first permanent work to be commissioned for Råängen.

Research

First Inhabitants

We invited architect Tor Lindstrand to produce AI images of a potential future Råängen.

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