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"Do You Know of Pålsundsparken?" is Sanning Arkitekter's entry to Architects Sweden's (Swedish union organization for architects) and Oyster's (a landscape architecture sub-committee of theirs) student contest Inside Out – the purpose of the contest was to strengthen the identity of any location perceivably lacking of it, and to do so with a focus on the theme of nostalgia. We identified a neglected urban park in the south-west of central Stockholm, and found traces of an old playground from the '50s, with only a single sculpture remaining. Our aim was to rebuild the lost playground, not as it was, but as it clearly isn't.

Brian Robertson's co-producer stated that a live album from the Diamonds and Dirt touring was in the making. We took up the pencil and sketched two concepts for the album cover art.

"Behemoth" is an experiment in character design based on the literary character with the same name, the enormous cat in Michail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita.

"HL2" is Sanning Arkitekter's entry to Arkipelago Stockholm's furniture workshop 2018, "One Light Stand". Arkipelago Stockholm (the KTH Royal Institute of Technology instance of the overarching student organization of Sweden's architecture schools, Arkipelago) invited the contestants to design an armature consisting of beech and rice paper, and required the use of a specific light bulb of warm temperature. In our home we had converted a physical model in the scale of 1:50 from a first-year project, with checkered openings in the façade, into a lamp. We realized that this workshop was an opportunity to make a worthy successor to that makeshift lamp – this time with the use as armature intended from the beginning.

"The Jolly Octopus" is an experimentation in character design for an amiable deep-sea creature, living by the devise "Losing a limb or two, doesn't matter at all as long as I got you!"

"Esplanade Elementary School – a postmodern, monumental school in Årstafältet" is Sanning Arkitekter's bachelor's degree project in architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The degree project is archived and retrievable through the DiVA portal (the Digital Scientific Archive) – the archive record is found here, and the project in full here (the page may need to be reloaded to start viewing of the document). Below is a short description of the project.

On Saturday May 26th, A.D. 2018, the ground work is initiated for one of our time’s most expansive housing projects. Årstafältet, a predominately natural park in southern Stockholm, will during the next twelve years be urbanized to two fifths of its total area, giving context for an entirely new urban quarter, accomodating 15 000 new Stockholmers. The scale of the housing project is comparable to the whole population of Nynäshamn, or one fifth of Kungsholmen’s.

"Kela Armchair" is Sanning Arkitekter's entry to Arkipelago Stockholm's furniture workshop 2017-18, "Chairway to Heaven". Arkipelago Stockholm (the KTH Royal Institute of Technology instance of the overarching student organization of Sweden's architecture schools, Arkipelago) invited the contestants to design a chair made of birch wood and leather. We allowed ourselves to be inspired by the design of Aifos Step Stool – the first prototype of which, "Aifoskela Kitchen Ladder", was constructed during the previous year's workshop – and designed a fullsize armchair, related to but not identical to the design of its older little sister.