The Arkitekturinsurret is an activist group that works for new construction according to classical architectural tradition and for the protection of existing architecture to be strengthened.
They annually award the ironic Kasper Kalkon prize as a response to Sweden's Architects' Kasper Sahlin prize.
This year, the Kalkon prize goes to the reconstruction of Karlstad's town hall signed by the architect office Horisont Arkitekter.
"To make such a bland building even more boring and discordant is impressive in itself.
Almost as impressive as making wooden facade material look like an old concrete facade a la Chernobyl (after the accident)," they write, among other things, in the justification.
"Another lump of concrete"
The architecture call also directs criticism at Sweden's architects for giving the modernist Merkurhuset the Kasper Sahlin prize, a house they themselves previously named as one of Sweden's ugliest.
"It feels like the industry organization Sweden's architects chose the Merkushuset as the winner to point a middle finger at us in the Architecture Uprising.
Partly because the new construction meant that large parts of a beautiful 19th-century house were demolished, but also because they chose to praise yet another gray concrete lump that was blasted up in a sensitive location between beautiful old houses," they write on their website.
The finest new production according to Arkitekturuproret is the neoclassical house at Ekmansgatan 5 in Gothenburg, which has been created by the architectural firm Albert Svensson & Inobi.