in Concrete in 2002 for the Arlanda air traffic control tower. Other buildings include the Universeum Science Centre, Gothenburg (2001), and the auditorium and Student Union at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg (2001), the latter also received the Kaspar Salin Prize. And in 2006 the Aranäs Senior High School in Kungsbacka was awarded the same prestigious prize. He was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal for architecture in 2005. In 2006 Wingårdh also was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award for Mimer's house in Kungälv. House of Sweden was awarded the American Architecture Awards by the Chicago Athenaeum 2007. The Washington embassy also received the Kasper Salin Prize 2007, making it Wingårdh's fifth Kasper Salin Prize—which places him in a league of his own among Swedish architects. At the 2008 World Architecture Festival in Barcelona Wingårdh was declared the ”clear winner” in the shopping category for the K:fem building in Vällingby, Stockholm. At the 2012 World Architecture Festival in Singapore, Victoria Tower in Stockholm was the winner in the hotel category. And at the 2013 World Architecture Festivale in Singapore the Emporia shopping center in Hyllie outside Malmö was declared the winner in the shopping category. Influences on architecture Gert Wingårdh's awarded projects and his contributions to the public debate on architecture have contributed to a changed image of architecture and architects in Sweden. A will to create new solutions for every new task has enhanced the variation in the production but reduced his impact as a stylistic beacon. An ambition to "give the client what they did not know that they wanted" reveals a will to provoke as well as to adapt. Notes and references Selected books about Gert Wingårdh Gert Wingårdh, architect, by Rasmus Waern (Birkhäuser Publishers for Architecture, 2001) Nordic by Nature, by Stefan Ostrowski (Natur & Kultur, 2001) Gert Wingårdh; Thirty Years of Architecture, Mikael Nanfeldt (ed.) (Birkhäuser Publishers for Architecture, 2008) Crucial Words. Conditions for Contemporary Architecture, Gert Wingårdh and Rasmus Waern (ed.) (Birkhäuser Publishers for Architecture, 2008) Falk Jaeger: "Wingårdhs", JOVIS Verlag Berlin 2010, External links Wingårdh AB website Photos of the House of Sweden in Washington, DC. Some works by Wingårdh AB 1951 births Living people People from Skövde Municipality Swedish architects Chalmers University of Technology alumni Recipients of the Prince Eugen Medal