Bengt Lindroos

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

Bengt Lindroos
The writers of Blandaren, a student humour magazine from the Royal Institute of Technology, in 1943 with Lindroos as the third from the left.
Born
Bengt Ingmar Lindroos

22 September 1918
Finspång Municipality, Sweden
DiedAugust 22, 2010(2010-08-22) (aged 91)
NationalitySwedish
Alma materRoyal Institute of Technology
OccupationArchitect
AwardsKasper Salin Prize
BuildingsKaknästornet, Hammarbytornet, Söderledskyrkan

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.[4]

Bibliography
  • Och så vidare- (1989)
  • Att vara arkitekt kan vara att... (2010)
gollark: So how does one actually go around packaging binaries with the program?
gollark: And how do I get *that* to work.
gollark: Wonderful. We need to just assume everyone has a C compiler installed.
gollark: https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_logos/New_logo_ideas
gollark: https://wiki.haskell.org/wikiupload/f/f3/UnsafeHaskell.png

References
  1. Bengt Lindroos avliden, Arkitektur 2010-08-23 (in Swedish)
  2. "Prins Eugen Medaljen" (PDF). Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  3. https://www.arkitekt.se/kasper-salin-priset/
  4. Arkitekten Bengt Lindroos är död, Svenska Dagbladet 2010-08-23 (in Swedish)


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