Treehotel — der Mirrorcube, ein verspiegelter Würfel, der den Wald reflektiert und beinahe unsichtbar wird

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Harads, Schwedisch-Lappland · am Lule-Fluss

Treehotel

ArchitectureForestNordicWonder

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.

Location
Harads, Schwedisch-Lappland · am Lule-Fluss
Best for
Design · Architecture · Couples · Northern lights · Nature
Best season
Ganzjährig · Year-round (Nordlichter Sep–März, Mitternachtssonne Jun–Jul)
Price
€€€€
Visit hotel website
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Transportation Options

  • Flughafen Luleå (ca. 1 Std.)
  • Bahnhof Boden (ca. 40 Min.)
  • Privattransfer auf Anfrage

Basic Information

  • Number of rooms: 9

Hotel Features

  • 9 einzigartige Baumzimmer, je von einem anderen Architekturbüro (Oasis ab August 2026)
  • Architekten u.a. Snøhetta, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Tham & Videgård, Rintala Eggertsson
  • Britta's Guesthouse: Rezeption, Restaurant, Bar & Sauna
  • Forest Spa mit Saunen am Lule-Fluss

Gallery

Treehotel — das 7th Room unter dem Nordlicht über Schwedisch-Lappland

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Treehotel — die Biosphere, ein zwischen Bäumen schwebendes Zimmer, umhüllt von 350 Vogelhäusern

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Treehotel — das UFO, eine fliegende Untertasse, die zwischen den Bäumen über dem Waldboden schwebt

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Treehotel — der Mirrorcube unter dem Nordlicht im Winter

© John Butlin, Treehotel

Treehotel — die Dragonfly, ein großes, von rostigem Metall verkleidetes Zimmer, getragen von sechs Kiefern

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Treehotel — Oasis, das neue, am Waldboden gelegene Baumzimmer mit geschwungenen Wänden um die Stämme

© Nadén & Lind, Treehotel

Treehotel — The Cabin, eine an den Bäumen hängende Kapsel, erreichbar über eine lange Brücke

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Treehotel — das Bird's Nest, von außen ein riesiges Vogelnest aus Ästen, das im Wald verschwindet

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Treehotel — das 7th Room aus geschwärztem Holz bei Mondlicht über den Baumwipfeln

© Johan Jansson, Treehotel

Treehotel — ein Gericht der Schwedisch-Lappland-Küche im Restaurant des Treehotel

© Jonas Westling, Treehotel

Our take

Why we love it

01

Nine treerooms, each by a different architecture studio — from Snøhetta and Bjarke Ingels to Tham & Videgård and Rintala Eggertsson.

02

The Mirrorcube that mirrors the forest and disappears, and the 7th Room with its netted terrace under the open sky.

03

BIG's Biosphere, wrapped in 350 birdhouses — architecture that is not only beautiful but enriches the forest.

04

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.

05

Swedish Lapland itself: pine forest and the Lule River, northern lights in winter, midnight sun in summer.

Treehotel — der Mirrorcube, ein verspiegelter Würfel, der den Wald reflektiert und beinahe unsichtbar wirdTreehotel — das 7th Room aus geschwärztem Holz bei Mondlicht über den BaumwipfelnTreehotel — die Biosphere von Bjarke Ingels Group, eine kugelförmige Wolke aus Nistkästen im WaldTreehotel — Detail aus dem Restaurant des Britta's GuesthouseTreehotel — der Mirrorcube mit seinem Aufgang zwischen den Bäumen

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How It All Began

A film, a village, a tree

Treehotel grew out of a film. Kent Lindvall and his wife Britta Jonsson-Lindvall ran the small guesthouse "Britta's Pensionat" in Harads when their friend, the filmmaker Jonas Selberg Augustsén, came to shoot his documentary "Trädälskaren" (The Tree Lover) in the area — the story of three city men returning to their roots by building a treehouse together. A first treehouse was built for the film, and with it an idea.

In 2010 Treehotel opened with its first treerooms. Kent invited leading Scandinavian architects — some he had met on fishing trips — and let each design a room of their own in the forest. Since 2022 the place has been run by Jonas Olsson and Hannah Wennebro, who carry forward the original idea: a place where contemporary architecture and the forest of Norrbotten meet.

Treehotel — der Mirrorcube mit seinem Aufgang zwischen den BäumenTreehotel — das UFO, eine fliegende Untertasse, die zwischen den Bäumen über dem Waldboden schwebtTreehotel — das Bird's Nest, von außen ein riesiges Vogelnest aus Ästen, das im Wald verschwindetTreehotel — der Blue Cone, eine leuchtend rote Hütte mit Holzschindeln, über eine sanfte Rampe erreichbarTreehotel — Innenraum von The Cabin mit panoramischer Fensterfront zum WaldTreehotel — die Dragonfly, ein großes, von rostigem Metall verkleidetes Zimmer, getragen von sechs KiefernTreehotel — das 7th Room, das höchste und größte Baumzimmer, mit Netzterrasse zwischen den KiefernTreehotel — Innenraum des 7th Room mit großen Fenstern und Blick in die BaumkronenTreehotel — die Biosphere, ein zwischen Bäumen schwebendes Zimmer, umhüllt von 350 VogelhäusernTreehotel — Innenraum der Biosphere mit Glaswänden und Blick auf die umliegenden VogelhäuserTreehotel — Oasis, das neue, am Waldboden gelegene Baumzimmer mit geschwungenen Wänden um die StämmeTreehotel — Innenraum von Oasis mit geschwungenen Holzwänden, die den Blick nach oben lenkenTreehotel — Innenraum des Mirrorcube mit Birkensperrholz und Fenstern in den Wald

© NorrisNiman, Treehotel

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 Bird's Nest and the UFO both come from Bertil Harström (Inredningsgruppen): one a vast tangle of branches outside and surprisingly bright within; the other a flying saucer whose ladder lowers from its belly. The Blue Cone by Sandell Sandberg is clad in birch shingles and reached, step-free, by a gentle ramp.

The Cabin by Cyrén & Cyrén hangs like a capsule among the trees, reached across a long bridge. The Dragonfly by Rintala Eggertsson weighs nearly twenty tonnes, rests on six pines and is the largest of the classic rooms. The 7th Room by Snøhetta is the tallest and widest: charred timber, floor-to-ceiling windows and a netted terrace where you lie out under the open sky.

Two more recent rooms carry the idea forward: the Biosphere by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), designed with ornithologist Ulf Öhman and wrapped in 350 birdhouses meant to enrich the forest itself — and Oasis by Nadén & Lind, which from August 2026 is built not upward but onto the forest floor: curved walls around the trunks, its own sauna, a hot tub and room for up to five guests.

Treehotel — der Speiseraum im Britta's Guesthouse mit Blick in den WaldTreehotel — Detail aus dem Restaurant des Britta's GuesthouseTreehotel — Tree Dining, ein in den Baumwipfeln servierter Gang über dem WaldTreehotel — kunstvoll angerichtetes Gericht aus regionalen Zutaten NorrbottensTreehotel — ein Gericht der Schwedisch-Lappland-Küche im Restaurant des Treehotel

© Jonas Westling, Treehotel

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 kitchen cooks a cuisine of Swedish Lapland year-round — game from the surrounding forests, fish, berries and ingredients from regional producers, alongside a breakfast buffet of pancakes, freshly baked bread, local cheese and cured meats.

If you like, dinner isn't served in the dining room but high above it: Tree Dining sets a menu among the treetops, around ten metres above the forest floor — Lapland on the plate and underfoot at once.

Treehotel — das 7th Room unter dem Nordlicht über Schwedisch-LapplandTreehotel — der Mirrorcube unter dem Nordlicht im WinterTreehotel — die Biosphere von Bjarke Ingels Group, eine kugelförmige Wolke aus Nistkästen im WaldTreehotel — Oasis aus der Vogelperspektive, eingebettet in den Wald von HaradsTreehotel — das UFO im Wald, mit ausklappbarer Leiter an der Unterseite

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Swedish Lapland

The forest, the river, the light

Treehotel sits near Harads on the Lule River, about an hour from Luleå airport and roughly forty minutes from the railway station at Boden. All around is the vastness of Norrbotten: pine forests, water and the northern sky. In winter the aurora stands overhead; in summer the sun barely sets for weeks.

The days fill with what the landscape offers — sauna sessions at the riverside Forest Spa, dog-sledding and snowmobile tours, ice fishing, hiking and, in summer, long luminous evenings. In the same village lies Arctic Bath, another well-known design project; the two houses share this extraordinary corner of Lapland.

People

The Hosts

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.

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Location

Sweden

Harads, Norrbotten

Treehotel, Edeforsväg 2A, 960 24 Harads, Sweden

Treehotel 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.

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