Treehotel
A hotel of treerooms in the forest of Swedish Lapland — each one designed by a different leading architecture studio, from Snøhetta to Bjarke Ingels.
Treehotel lies in the forest near Harads, a village of around 500 people on the Lule River in the north of Sweden, not far from the Arctic Circle. It is not a hotel in the usual sense but a collection of individual treerooms, built high among the pines — each designed by a different leading architecture studio. A mirrored cube that disappears into the forest. A giant bird's nest. A flying saucer. A room wrapped in 350 birdhouses. Among the trunks, with reception and restaurant in Britta's old guesthouse, this becomes a place where modern architecture and Nordic wilderness grow indistinguishable.
The Build
Seven rooms by seven architecture practices, each on a different tree. There is no main building, only the forest and the paths between.
The Rooms
Every room its own hand — from the mirrored cube to the shell of a bird's nest. Inside, everywhere: birch, felt, little.
The Table
You eat down in the village, at Britta's Pensionat from 1930. The house deliberately has no kitchen of its own up in the forest.
The Cut
- No main building
- No lift — you walk
- No kitchen up in the forest
"Which is why the wrong people rarely sit at the next table."
Five reasons that stay
- Nine treerooms, each by a different architecture studio — from Snøhetta and Bjarke Ingels to Tham & Videgård and Rintala Eggertsson.
- The Mirrorcube that mirrors the forest and disappears, and the 7th Room with its netted terrace under the open sky.
- BIG's Biosphere, wrapped in 350 birdhouses — architecture that is not only beautiful but enriches the forest.
- A story that began with a documentary film and Britta's small guesthouse — not a concept on a drawing board but grown from the place.
- Swedish Lapland itself: pine forest and the Lule River, northern lights in winter, midnight sun in summer.
What makes the house
The Treerooms
Nine architects, nine worlds in the forest
Each treeroom bears the signature of a different studio. The Mirrorcube by Tham & Videgård is a mirrored cube that reflects the forest and all but vanishes; a tree grows through its centre.
The whole house
Britta's Guesthouse
Where the day begins and ends
The heart of Treehotel stands on the ground: Britta's Guesthouse, the old pensionat where it all began. This is where you check in, and where you'll find reception, the bar, the sauna and the restaurant.
The whole houseTreehotel lies in the forest near Harads, a village of around 500 people on the Lule River in Norrbotten, the northernmost part of Sweden, not far from the Arctic Circle. Luleå airport is about an hour away, the railway station at Boden roughly forty minutes. All around is the vastness of Swedish Lapland: pine forests, the river, long winters with northern lights and summers with the midnight sun. The region offers dog-sledding and snowmobile tours, ice fishing, riverside sauna sessions and hiking — and, with the neighbouring Arctic Bath, another well-known design project in the same village.
Treehotel rests on a simple, headstrong idea: to invite leading architects into the forest and let each design a single treeroom — with no shared vocabulary, no urge toward uniformity. So the mirrored cube stands beside the bird's nest, the flying saucer beside the Dragonfly. Founded by Kent and Britta Lindvall, who ran their guesthouse here, and run since 2022 by Jonas Olsson and Hannah Wennebro, the place stays true to its founding belief: that architecture should not add something to the forest but open a new way of being in it.
The house, without words
No main building.
Nine treerooms, no two alike — each designed by its own architecture studio, among them Snøhetta, Bjarke Ingels Group, Tham & Videgård and Rintala Eggertsson. You don't choose a room so much as an idea of how to live in the forest.
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