{"id":956871,"date":"2026-05-13T10:53:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/956871\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:53:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:53:30","slug":"wingardhs-slides-glass-restaurant-under-stockholm-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/956871\/","title":{"rendered":"Wing\u00e5rdhs slides glass restaurant under Stockholm bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swedish studio Wing\u00e5rdhs<\/a> has unveiled Slussporten, a glass-fronted restaurant<\/a> located underneath Stockholm<\/a>‘s Goldbridge that was designed to challenge the idea that “nothing good happens under a bridge”.<\/p>\n

Slussporten, which is run by Stockholm hospitality brand Nobis, is located under a bridge designed by British studio Foster + Partners<\/a> as part of its masterplan<\/a> for the city’s Slussen area.<\/p>\n

Named Slussbron, but known as Guldbron \u2013 the Goldbridge in Swedish \u2013 because of its golden hue, the bridge connects Stockholm’s Old Town with the hip S\u00f6dermalm area.<\/p>\n

\"GlassSlussporten is located underneath Guldbron in central Stockholm<\/p>\n

Wing\u00e5rdhs<\/a> looked to ideas of “mass and transparency” when designing Slussporten, a self-supporting glass structure that sits underneath the bridge, overlooking the water.<\/p>\n

Architects Gert Wing\u00e5rdh and Maria Normann described the 855-square-metre restaurant as “a glass room beneath a concrete bridge, structurally independent, solidity and fragility.”<\/p>\n

Its building and infrastructure are independent from Slussbron, but the location was still a dominant factor in the restaurant’s design.<\/p>\n

\"ViewIt was designed as a “glass room” by Wing\u00e5rdhs<\/p>\n

“The bridge dominates \u2014 that was given from the start,” Wing\u00e5rdh and Normann told Dezeen. “Our volumes are part of its public space, not a challenge to it.”<\/p>\n

“The silhouette is the bridge’s,” they continued. “The transparency is ours. You pass these facades on bicycle, by boat, by metro \u2014 always in the shadow of Guldbron.”<\/p>\n

\"SlussportenThe restaurant is only connected to the bridge at its foundations<\/p>\n

For this reason, the architects chose to work with glass, creating an open design that faces the Vattentorget square. The studio also hoped to challenge traditional views of bridge underpasses as scary places.<\/p>\n

“Nothing good happens under a bridge \u2014 darkness, insecurity, no man’s land,” the architects said. “That’s the assumption we set out to change.”<\/p>\n

To do so, Wing\u00e5rdh and Normann used “super-transparent glass” to create “maximum light, a place to meet.”<\/p>\n

\"InteriorThe interior was designed to have a welcoming feel<\/p>\n

The only points of connection between the restaurant and the bridge are at the bridge foundations, where Wing\u00e5rdhs used dark sheet metal to also visually connect the two buildings.<\/p>\n

“The foundations govern; the building elements that meet them are recessed and clad in black sheet metal, stepping back to create shadow and let the foundations read clearly,” Wing\u00e5rdh and Normann explained.<\/p>\n

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“The upper section of the glass facade has a dark-tinted band, both to create a visual boundary against the bridge and to conceal the roof structure behind it.”<\/p>\n

Inside, the space has been divided into three sections \u2013 the Gold Bar, the Food Bar and the Dining Room. Here, interior architects Helena Toresson and Sara Helder aimed to create a “warm and welcoming” space.<\/p>\n

\"WavyThe Slussporten bar has a metal design that resembles water<\/p>\n

The designers worked with a variety of different materials for the interior, which also reflects \u2013 sometimes literally \u2013 Slussporten’s location by the water. Its main bar has a striking, beaten-metal design that resembles the waves outside the door.<\/p>\n

“The bar is clad in a patterned metal with a water-like rhythm: warmth, reflection and gold \u2014 gilded, like Guldbron above, with shifting reflections across the space,” Toresson and Helder said.<\/p>\n

\"ChairsTiled pillars and patterned mosaics decorate the space<\/p>\n

It also drew on the graffiti commonly found on and under bridges when creating the restaurant space.<\/p>\n

“Running the full length of the bar and restaurant, the inner wall is clad floor-to-ceiling in Italian glass mosaic \u2013 an abstract collage of enlarged onion motifs,” the interior architects said.<\/p>\n

“Inspired by the graffiti that typically adorns bridge foundations and walls, we ornamented ours with patterned mosaic.”<\/p>\n

\"RestaurantThe gold-coloured bridge above connects Stockholm’s Old Town and S\u00f6dermalm<\/p>\n

Slussporten also features tile-clad central pillars, while the ceiling was designed to match the colour of the bridge.<\/p>\n

“The tone of the acoustic plaster ceiling was carefully calibrated to match the hue of the bridge \u2013 seen from Vattentorget, the two read as one surface,” Toresson and Helder concluded.<\/p>\n

The Slussen area is also set to feature a Nobel Center with a red-brick design by David Chipperfield<\/a>. Wing\u00e5rdhs has previously turned a dilapidated freight depot into a Malm\u00f6 food market<\/a> and perched forest hotel suites on stilts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is courtesy of Wing\u00e5rdhs.<\/p>\n

Project credits:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interior architect<\/strong>: Wing\u00e5rdhs
Team<\/strong>: Helena Toresson, Sara Helder, Felica Warberg, Christoffer Gleeson, Karin Johansson
Architect: <\/strong>Wing\u00e5rdhs
Team<\/strong>: Gert Wing\u00e5rdh, Maria Normann, Maria Olausson, Jacek Zalecki
Masterplan:<\/strong> Foster + Partners, New Slussen Masterplan
Lighting design:<\/strong> Abreu via Joaquim Abreu
Developer:<\/strong> Nobis Hospitality Group
Client contact:<\/strong> Maximilian Catenacci, Vice CEO Nobis Restaurant Division
Contractor:<\/strong> Tenet, RIHAB (tenant fit-out)
Interior supplier:<\/strong> YLLW AB via Mats Flodin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swedish studio Wing\u00e5rdhs has unveiled Slussporten, a glass-fronted restaurant located underneath Stockholm‘s Goldbridge that was designed to challenge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,15454,280,126129,126130,218696,103836,812,16,15,267149],"class_list":["post-956871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-glass","tag-restaurants","tag-sectionall","tag-sectionarchitecture","tag-sectionexclusives","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wingu00e5rdhs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116566899416378472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}