HK60 is a new office and shopping complex located in the Sickla Shopping Centre. The project involves both refurbishment and redevelopment of the heritage-listed buildings erected in the 1950s and 1960s for Atlas Copco AB. By means of an addition, the new facility is being expanded to approximately 7500 m2 Nyrén’s role in the assignment has been to serve as architect for the buildings, fixtures and landscape, and to take charge of the design and planning of premises, buildings and surrounding land.
HK60 is located in the Sickla Shopping Centre and in that part of the Sickla industrial park, which is protected in the detailed development plan by the Planning and Construction Act and in accordance with the provisions within. This means that the area’s basic functional transparency and structure shall be maintained and new buildings are to be designed taking the special nature of the surroundings into particular account. Existing buildings within HK60 are protected by the provisions set out in the detailed development plan, which means that documents for in-house antiquarian inspections were produced and a statement from the architectural curator preceded the issuance of the building permit.
Buildings A and B have been completely renovated, and measures have been taken in order to generate greater continuity and more contemporary premises through the comprehensive work done to the framework of the existing buildings. Four new office floors have been built onto Building A, and the existing “king’s floor” in Building B was demolished and a completely new construction true to the original was re-erected. The conditions set out in the current detailed development plan have entailed inter alia the existing buildings being modified, subject to care requirements. At the same time, the existing high-rise section upon completion of the refurbishment will become Sickla's highest building. The project is expected to be completed in the beginning 2013.
The office is also planning the new Intrum Justitia operations building, right next to HK60, in direct connection. The two buildings come together to create a new urban continuity in the form of new street and plaza area in what is called Hesselmans square.
Atlas Copco moved to new premises in 2011 together with Atrium Ljungberg in a new office building located further south in the Sickla industrial park. This building currently makes up an important part of the Sickla Shopping Centre, which Nyren's architect firm has also drafted.
