"I’m well known to have no style, architecturally speaking, so I can adopt any style,” says Gert Wingårdh, founder of Swedish architecture firm Wingårdhs. It is not surprising then that the designer of many of Sweden’s most well-known examples of contemporary architecture—Aula Medica in Stockholm (2013), the Emporia shopping complex in Malmö (2012), and the Kuggen office building in Gothenburg (2011), to name a few—is also the mastermind behind Stockholm’s most recent “monument to functionalism,” as former Wingårdhs collaborator, architect Anna Söderberg, calls the Basaren apartment building.

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