House of Sweden
“The Swedish Embassy's cultural and commercial building at 2900 K Street NW at the Georgetown waterfront, where the modern glass-and-steel structure by Gert Wingardh provides the most architecturally distinctive waterfront address in Georgetown and hosts the Swedish cultural events, the diplomatic receptions, and the commercial tenants that the embassy-owned building accommodates.”
Verified listing · Updated June 2026
House of Sweden at 2900 K Street NW is the Swedish Embassy’s cultural and commercial building at the Georgetown waterfront, occupying the most architecturally distinctive building on the Georgetown waterfront’s K Street address. The building, which was designed by the Swedish architect Gert Wingardh and the American architect Gail Lindsey and which opened in 2006, is a glass-and-steel structure that brings the contemporary Scandinavian architectural tradition’s transparency and its relationship to the water to the Georgetown waterfront setting where the prevailing architecture is the red brick and the Federal-period masonry that characterizes the neighborhood above.
The House of Sweden building serves a triple function as the Swedish diplomatic mission’s cultural programming address, the commercial tenant building that houses the businesses and the organizations that lease the building’s commercial spaces, and the event venue for the diplomatic, the cultural, and the commercial events that the Swedish Embassy hosts in the Washington diplomatic community. The Swedish cultural events that the House of Sweden hosts throughout the year include the traditional Swedish holidays, the Swedish cultural institution exhibitions, and the Swedish business and innovation showcases that the Swedish diplomatic mission uses to represent Sweden’s cultural and commercial identity in the Washington international community.
The Georgetown waterfront K Street address at 2900 NW provides the House of Sweden with the specific waterfront position between the Georgetown Harbour commercial complex and the Key Bridge approach, creating the Scandinavian architectural and cultural presence at the Georgetown waterfront.
The building’s event schedule and the commercial tenants vary. The House of Sweden is a landmark in Georgetown’s K Street waterfront architecture. The House of Sweden at 2900 K Street NW serves the Washington international community as the Swedish diplomatic and cultural presence at the Georgetown waterfront, providing the Swedish cultural programming for the Washington audience that wants the direct engagement with the contemporary Swedish culture, the Swedish design tradition, and the Swedish political and social model that the Washington diplomatic and policy community uses as the reference point for the Scandinavian social democratic governance.
The building’s architectural significance at the Georgetown waterfront, which the Wingardh design’s glass-and-steel Scandinavian modernism introduces into the Georgetown K Street brick-and-stone waterfront context, makes the House of Sweden the most architecturally distinctive structure at the Georgetown waterfront and a landmark of the Washington Scandinavian presence. The building is a Georgetown waterfront landmark and event venue accessible from the K Street waterfront. House of Sweden at 2900 K Street NW Georgetown provides the Swedish diplomatic presence at the Georgetown waterfront through the Gert Wingardh-designed glass-and-steel building that is the most architecturally distinctive structure at the Georgetown K Street waterfront. The building hosts the Swedish Embassy’s cultural programming and the commercial tenants that the embassy-owned property accommodates in the Georgetown waterfront commercial building. Event schedules are available through the House of Sweden.