"Gothenburg is like a playground for architects"
Andreas Lyckefors runs what is probably Gothenburg’s hottest architect firm right now, the diverse, award-winning Bornstein Lyckefors. This is his guide to the best of what Gothenburg has to offer in architecture, design and fashion. It takes a while for the celebrated architect Andreas Lyckefors to get going, but once he has begun to list the most interesting places for architecture, fashion and design he can hardly stop. It’s easy to be blind to your own city, he offers as an excuse as he pauses for breath, before diving into the next hidden gem in Sweden’s second largest city. And it’s precisely this factor of being the second city that Andreas Lyckefors comes back to when asked to describe Gothenburg as a destination for design. Just like Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg he feels that Gothenburg is a freer and more creative place in relation to its capital city. And what Gothenburg might lack in prestigious institutions, the city makes up for in characterist...