A pioneering Modernist, Sigurd Lewerentz was born the same year as Gunnar Asplund (1885) and outlived him by more than three decades, but he never achieved the same level of fame outside Sweden as Asplund did. Though revered by many, the man, and to some extent his work, was an enigma. Now one of Sweden’s best known contemporary architects, Gert Wingårdh (who tied with Lewerentz in the first architectural competition he ever entered, back in the 1970s) has converted an early Lewerentz building, a warehouse for Philips, into a chic but no-nonsense 249-room hotel for repeat client Nobis Hospitality Group.