An apartment building constructed with handmade Danish bricks.

Obelisken 29, is located on Södermalm in Stockholm. It consists of 20 penthouse apartments – some of them two storey – with terraces and balconies, added on top of the old roof of an existing 1960’s building which also received a revamped façade.

When two storey penthouses are built, the bedrooms are often upstairs and kitchen and living room areas downstairs, a remnant of housing at ground level. In Obelisken 29, this has been reversed. The lower ”box” is more closed than the upper, which is filled with light that enters through the large glass partitions.

A particular level of attention was devoted to the penthouses, resulting in specially-designed door handles, railings, parapets, kitchen doorknobs, wallpapers, windowsills and sliding glass doors.

The 1960’s monochrome, block-like building has been divided along its length into four, where each part is given its own colour: three shades of grey and a terracotta.

The bricks. The Danish Petersen Tegl, high quality bricks exude solidity, quality and is a material full of expression that only gets more beautiful with time. They are used at street level, along the full length of the 1960’s building, as well as all of the penthouse.