Peter Celsing (1920–1974) was a Swedish modernist architect who often worked in a brutalist manner, with large surfaces of exposed grey concrete, sometimes set against wide panes of glass that show the structure from outside and interiors finished in wood. Born in Stockholm, he studied at the Royal Institute of Technology and the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, and was an assistant to Sigurd Lewerentz; according to the architect Adam Caruso, it was Celsing who helped Lewerentz win the competition for St Mark's Church. After a period working in Beirut he led the architecture office of Stockholm's tram and local railway authority, designing suburban metro stations.
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His churches include Härlanda Church in Gothenburg (1958). Filmhuset in Stockholm (1971), home of the Swedish Film Institute, was designed to resemble a camera, with a concrete façade like strips of film, and is protected at the highest level by the city museum. Kulturhuset on Sergels torg (1974), a cultural centre meant as an oasis in a rebuilt commercial district, shows a glass front with thin concrete floors like open shelves. Beside it stands the Sveriges Riksbank Building (1976), headquarters of Sweden's central bank.
