- It is an incredibly extensive renovation and development of Ryd's mansion. Herrgården has now been a union house for 50 years and with this renovation we now hope that it will be able to be there for another 50 years, says Simon Helmér, CEO Studentbostäder.

A challenge

Thomas Lilja is the business area manager at Studentbostäder and has been involved from idea to design. According to him, renovating the manor has been a challenge, partly because the manor is Q-marked.

- When we have created a Ryds mansion for 2019 we have gone back in history and see what was important in the past and preserved those parts, says Thomas Lilja.

"A little different"

- It's about stuccos, chest panels and tile stoves. But it is also about the students' history and we have, for example, a poster-wall that shows what great artists played at the mansion during the 90's and 00's. It is a little different but still culturally valuable and protected.