Sune Lindström (2 November 1906 – 31 October 1989) was a Swedish

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. He was born in

Malmö Malmö is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, sixth-largest city in Nordic countries, the Nordic region. Located on ...

, Sweden, the son of Gustaf Lindström and Astrid Dahlén. He studied at the Royal Institute of Technology between 1926 and 1931. He followed with training at the Bauhaus in

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. Lindström was a professor at Chalmers University of Technology in

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from 1959 to 1969. He was married to Danish architect Malene Bjørn (1914–2016), with whom he designed the Kuwait Towers in

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1906 births 1989 deaths People from Malmö KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni Bauhaus alumni Academic staff of the Chalmers University of Technology 20th-century Swedish architects {{Sweden-architect-stub