Sverigehuset, Cultural center at Kungsträdgården, Stockholm, Sweden

Sverigehuset is a building at the corner of Hamngatan and Kungsträdgården in Stockholm, designed by Sven Markelius and built 1961–1969. It has seven storeys facing Hamngatan and four facing the park, with two connected volumes: a lower one for offices and a restaurant, and a taller one containing a two-level exhibition hall, library, conference rooms and study rooms. The entrance hall is dominated by large prism-shaped windows projecting between the facade pillars.

Sverigehuset was designed by Sven Markelius, his last architectural commission, and built between 1961 and 1969. Its construction required demolishing the Ateljébyggnaden and the old Blancheteatern. The original plan for white marble facades was dropped after Finance Minister Gunnar Sträng ordered cuts to state building costs, so the facades were cast in concrete and chiselled to resemble natural stone. Work finally began in 1966, using apprentices amid a labour shortage.

Siri Derkert's metal collage Sverigeväggen, inaugurated in 1969, covers the facade facing Kungsträdgården. The building was meant to house the Swedish Institute and its related institutions, and Markelius later regretted that the planned public exhibition activity never took hold there; that role went instead to the nearby Kulturhuset. The ground-floor indoor square never became the all-activity room he intended.

The building is easily accessible and houses an information center on the ground floor where visitors can get travel assistance and purchase Swedish literature. Its central location at Kungsträdgården makes it straightforward to reach while also allowing visitors to explore the surrounding area.

The concrete façades were cast against grooved rubber mats and egg cartons that Sven Markelius tested in his own garden in Danderyd, then chiselled by hand so the surface resembles natural stone. The same treatment recurs inside on the monumental curved staircase.