Location: Kalmar, Sweden.

Architect: Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter.

The Kalmar Museum of Art is a winning proposal in an international competition in 2004 and was inaugurated on the 10th of May 2008. It is a black four-level cube clad with large-scale wooden panels and punctuated by large glazed openings. It houses both the Kalmar collection of Modern Art and temporary exhibitions of contemporary art, videos, performances and concerts. The two main spaces are the white box and the top-floor gallery, which are lit by light shafts. The open stair spiralling the full height of the building is a top-lit space with all surfaces in exposed in situ cast concrete. Interior finishes are exposed concrete, black stained plywood doors and panels, white painted walls and ceilings, and natural ash.