Sune Lindström

Sune Lindström (* 1906, † 1989) was a Swedish architect. He was known among other things, by the water tower in Örebro Svampen.

Training

Sune Lindström received his education at the Technical University in Stockholm 1926-31, where he spent a year of his studies at the Bauhaus school in Dessau. After graduation he was employed by Kooperativa Förbundets arkitektkonor ( architects of the Swedish cooperatives Konsumgenossenschaft ), then the largest architectural firm in Sweden.

Work

Sune Lindström 1937-39 was chief for the city planning department of cooperative housing association HSB, where he planned including the Stockholm district Reimersholme. During his time as chief architect for the Swedish multinational consulting firm Vattenfall Byrån Byggnads, VBB, Sweden's largest consulting firm in the construction industry, he designed the main development plan for Karachi. In Sweden, he designed the main building plans several medium-sized cities.

His most famous building in general is certainly the 58-meter high water tower Svampen ( the fungus ) in Örebro ( 1954-58 ). Water towers of the same design were built in various countries, including There is a 33 % larger copy in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh and Kuwait is a whole group of these mushroom towers.

Striking in Stockholm's image is the high house of the Wenner-Gren Center in 1959. Sune Lindström From 1959 to 1969 was a professor in the art urban planning at the Technical University in Gothenburg.

Literature and source

• Svensk arkitektur, ritningar 1640-1970, Byggförlaget Stockholm 1986

• Architect ( Sweden)
• Swede
• Born in 1906
• Died in 1989
• Man