Bengt_Lindroos

Bengt Lindroos

Bengt Lindroos

Swedish architect

Bengt Ingmar Lindroos (22 September 1918 – 22 August 2010) was a Swedish architect.

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

Lindroos started drafting houses for a local builder at the age of 17 years and received his formal education at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1942-45.

After being employed by Sven Markelius, he opened an office together with Hans Borgström in 1954.[1] He designed the Kaknästornet television tower in 1967. He was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal in 1983.[2]

He designed in the 1986 Kasper Salin Prize-winning building block Kvarteret Drottningen. He also designed the prize of the competition.[3]

Death

Lindroos died on 22 August 2010, aged 92.[where?][4]

Bibliography

  • Och så vidare- (1989)
  • Att vara arkitekt kan vara att... (2010)

References

  1. [1]
    Bengt Lindroos avliden, Arkitektur 2010-08-23 (in Swedish)
  2. [2]
    "Prins Eugen Medaljen" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 March 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  3. [3]
    "Kasper Salin-priset". 2022.
  4. [4]
    Arkitekten Bengt Lindroos är död, Svenska Dagbladet 2010-08-23 (in Swedish)
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