After a unanimous local vote in 1996, the Swedish town of Växjö became the first in the world to commit to becoming fossil fuel free
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The tactile road crossing map is not just a feature that sets Swedish pedestrian signal boxes apart, it's also the first and original design of its kind
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Sculptor sues Swedish glassmaker Kosta Boda for €1m in test of EU ‘bestseller clause’ – landmark case may open door to retrospective claims across bloc
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Urban development company Atrium Ljungberg has unveiled plans to construct the world's largest wooden neighbourhood in Stockholm
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A Swedish town is on the move, one building at a time – subsidence from the world's biggest iron ore mine threatens to swallow up the Arctic town of Kiruna
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Design collective Andra Formen has created furniture from electric scooters fished out of the canals of Malmö
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Gothenburg is on a $100bn building spree
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Vintage IKEA! A 1960s armchair just sold for £12k – here are ten other surprising secondhand Swedish hits
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Meet the Swedish artist who hooked British rock royalty on her revolutionary crochet
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IKEA goes glam rock with Zandra Rhodes collaboration – British fashion designer teams up with Swedish furniture chain after being inspired by lockdown
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Gothenburg's bold plan to be world's best rainy city – it rains nearly 40% of the time in the Swedish city, so why not try to make the most of it?
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Facing a housing crunch almost a century ago, Stockholm built 'barnrikehus' for low-income families – today they are some of the city's more sought-after properties
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Swedish officials have joined Danish critics in registering concerns that an island-building plan, a signature test of Copenhagen's development model, could have risks
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Can Malmö's green points system help rewild London? Transformation of a Swedish shipyard into a leafy haven inspired London's 'urban greening factor' plan.
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Greta Thunberg features on Swedish postage stamp – illustration of activist is part of a series highlighting government's environmental quality goals
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Furniture giant IKEA has announced it will stop printing its traditional catalogue, one of the world's biggest annual publications, after seventy years
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Buildings and residents testament to the rich seams of history and identity of Kiruna in Sweden are ousted in favour of the profit-laden iron ore seams lurking beneath
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CF Møller Architects have revealed photos of the Kajstaden Tall Timber Building, which has recently completed in the city of Västerås and is Sweden's tallest timber building
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Sweden scraps Stockholm Fashion Week due to environmental concerns
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IKEA and the Queen of Sweden are designing homes for people with dementia
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Danish architecture firm COBE has won an international competition for a new science museum in Lund
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IKEA is bringing its low-cost modular housing units to the UK
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'Distracted boyfriend' advert ruled sexist
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