Behind the comprehensive artwork “Rosa torget” (Pink plaza) is the association Dansbana! consisting of architects Anna Fridolin, Anna Pang and Teres Selberg. Their ambition was to create a plaza that offers both a welcoming public environment, a complete urban space with playful artistic elements. A democratic and warm place that invites meetings, play, movement and dance.
The design takes its starting point from Salomon Sörensen’s hospital building from 1896 and the site’s specific architectural elements that have been the inspiration for both the choice of materials and the design and color scheme. The comprehensive artwork consists of an open patterned ground surface for dancing and meetings and three geometric brick sculptures; a “portal”, a “sound arch” (upside down portal) and a “serpentine wall” that both frame the site and function as benches. The portal and walls are handcrafted precise brickwork carried out by the Malmö-based craftsman Tor Ek and his skilled colleagues at Kulturkalk Syd AB. A work done in close collaboration with the designer Tomas Gustafsson (LTH).
Rosa torget is a unique norm-creative public space in Malmö where the quality of the hand, the material and the architecture are highlighted and put in the center. The official opening of the plaza is planned for August 2025, but it is already possible to play music and dance on the site.
