Statens Fastighetsverk – House of Sweden

House of Sweden symbolizes openness, transparency, and accessibility. It is surrounded by water on a peninsula along the Potomac River, in one of the most public places in Georgetown, Washington DC, overlooking the Watergate Hotel and the Kennedy Center. Yellon's architect Tomas Hansen was responsible for the project through Wingårdh Arkitektkontor. The building was inaugurated in 2006, and awarded the Kasper Salin Prize the following year.

The multidimensional material and light experience evokes associations to Nordic nature and culture. Balconies with an exterior backlit glass layer featuring a generated wood pattern recall traditions of grain painting, and light up like a lantern in the American South’s dark night. The amorphous perforated maple ceiling illuminates the entrance hall like northern lights, and the various layers of gradually white-dotted glass railings and facades hover fairylike. The staircase to the conference center descends into a bottomless pond, and running water on the windbreak glass walls is superimposed with the renowned designer Ingegerd Råman’s broken glass ice floe.