Hamilton House, Helsingborg

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Architect: Jaenecke & Samuelson - Fritz Jaenecke and Sten Samuelson
Built in: 1967
Client: AB Hälsingborgshem

Hamilton House is actually the name of the farm that formerly stood at the site, built by Count Hamilton. The Danish architect Ferdinand Meldahl should have been responsible for the design in 1851-52. The original Hamilton House burned to the ground in 1868. A new building was built the same year with Mauritz Frohm as an architect and Count De la Gardie as project contractor. In the early 1960s Hamilton House was sold and in the beginning of 1965 it was torn down.

On the site it was decided to build the giant complex Hamilton 3 in 1967. It includes both commercial and service buildings and a long six-storey residential building. The designs and drawings came from the consulting firm Jaenecke-Samuelson AB.

The brutalist concrete building stretches out its about 180-meter long façade and is, to say the least, eye catching. The Building has clear references to Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation, with its rough concrete and thick pilotis. The property also includes an underground garage.

The building is currently classified as an especially valuable building in the conservation program (in Swedish) for the city of Helsingborg and is considered a good example of prefabricated buildings at the time.

More designs by Jaenecke & Samuelson . Here you find pictures of Architect Sten Samuelson’s and Architect Fritz Jaenecke’s own work