The formerly closed harbor environment at Masthuggskajen is being transformed and Järntorget's role as Gothenburg's creative heart is being consolidated. With a new peninsula in the Göta River Sheep Linnaeus City finally direct contact with the river and the city a new quayside. At the end of the peninsulan two residential blocks will be built, where we design the eastern after winning the competition.

Six distinctive volumes with a stepped form create a strong shape towards the river and meet Masthuggskajen's new skyscrapers. Closest to the river, a free-standing harbor palace is formed within the block, whose release from the rest of the building creates exciting urban spaces, a square facing the moat and exceptional premises for restaurant and café activities. The block consists of two properties, and houses both condominiums and rental apartments - penthouses as well as well-arranged studios. The neighborhood stages the meeting between city and river, and becomes a natural part of the southern riverside's new cityscape.

The site is Gothenburg's historic outskirts, where visitors once encountered customs and fortifications. The last remaining bastion of Gothenburg can still be seen from the district's roof terraces. Just off the peninsula used to be Gothenburg's iron scale, and in the moat, ships carrying building materials arrived at Röda Bryggan - named after the sand and red bricks stacked there waiting to be laid. The rich material history of the site colors the block, combining wrought iron details with red brick and brick in varying tones of straw and sand. The stone floor of the quay plays into the block in varied patterns and designs.

The block's cross-section is a stylized archipelago cliff. As the peninsula is extended into the river, it is easy to create areas below ground level - and the courtyard can accommodate generous spaces for public or neighborhood functions. At ground level, the courtyard is surrounded by an arcade - a sheltered space that links housing with a laundry lounge, bicycle room and other common functions of the neighborhood.

The Masthuggskajen neighborhood is a love letter to Gothenburg. In places where it blows and rains, intimate urban spaces become particularly important, and here several are created. It is an urban, generous neighborhood, in a new hub between river, city and port.