{"id":8096,"date":"2026-05-13T10:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=8096"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:13:47","slug":"wingardhs-slides-glass-restaurant-under-foster-partners-designed-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/wingardhs-slides-glass-restaurant-under-foster-partners-designed-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Wing\u00e5rdhs slides glass restaurant under Foster + Partners-designed bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Stockholm<\/div>\n

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”.<\/span><\/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

\"Glass
Slussporten is located underneath Guldbron in central Stockholm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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

\"View
It was designed as a “glass room” by Wing\u00e5rdhs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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

\"Slussporten
The restaurant is only connected to the bridge at its foundations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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

\"Interior
The interior was designed to have a welcoming feel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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