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| Stockholm City Hall |
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| The Stockholm City Hall, or Stockholms stadshus,
is the building of the Municipal Council for the City of Stockholm
in Sweden. It is located on the island of Kungsholmen. The City
Hall was build on the location where the grain mill Eldkvarn
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| The building was designed by architect Ragnar
Östberg, and built between 1911 and 1923. Consisting of
eight million red bricks the building is centered on two large
squares, an outer yard and an indoor hall. The indoor hall was
originally intended to be in blue, and is also called the "Blue
Hall", or Blå hallen, despite the fact that Östberg
changed his mind and decided to keep the red bricks, because
he found color more beautiful. |
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| The Blue Hall is perhaps most well known for
as the dining hall used for the banquette held after the awarding
ceremony of the Nobel Prizes each year. At the top of the 106
metre (348 foot) tall tower the Three Crowns are visible, which
is an old national symbol for Sweden. |
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| To the southeast of the City Hall is a pillar
roughly 20 meters tall with a statue of Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
on top. |
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Stockholm City Hall
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| Skogskyrkogården |
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 Skogskyrkogården
(The Forest Cemetery) is a cemetery located in Stockholm,
Sweden. Its design reflects the development of architecture
from national romantic style to mature functionalism. The
name reflects the feel of the site.
Skogskyrkogården came about following an international
competition in 1915 for the design of a new cemetery in Enskede
in the southern part of Stockholm, Sweden. The design of Gunnar
Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, young architects from the Functionalist
movement, was selected. |
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| Work began in 1917 on land that had been old
gravel quarries that were overgrown with pine trees and was
completed three years later. The architects' use of the natural
landscape created an extraordinary environment of tranquil beauty
that had a profound influence on cemetery design throughout
the world. |
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A few of the notables buried here are:
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Gunnar Asplund |
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(1885-1940), architect |
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Greta Garbo |
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(1905-1990), actress |
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Ivar Lo-Johansson |
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(1901-1990), writer |
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Oscar A.C. Lund |
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(1885-1963), silent film actor,
director |
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Lennart "Nacka" Skoglund |
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(1929-1975), football star |
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| Greta Garbo's Gravestone |
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