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A 200 m (656 ft) high skyscraper, called Tell Us Tower, was planned for construction in 2010 at Telefonplan in Stockholm's southern suburbs, but the plans were cancelled in 2007. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] There were plans to construct a 325 m (1,066 ft) high skyscraper, Scandinavian Tower, in Malmö, but they were canceled in 2004. [ 6 ]
The present lock was inaugurated in 1935 and the fourth to be built, preceded by a first horse-driven lock, called Drottining Kristinas Sluss ("Lock of Queen Christina"), constructed by two Dutch engineers and inaugurated in 1642; a second, Polhems sluss ("Lock of Polhem"), designed by and named after Christopher Polhem (1662–1751), and inaugurated in 1755; and a third, (Nils Ericsons sluss ...
Tallest building in Stockholm. Third tallest of Sweden. [1] 2 Innovationen: 125 38 2018 Tallest residential building of Stockholm. [2] 3: Victoria Tower: 117.6: 32: 2011 4 Kista Torn: 111.7 40 2015 5 Helix* 106 33 2021 6 Sthlm 01: 102.5 27 2020 7 Kajen 6* 87.6 27 2021 8 Skatteskrapan 86 27 1959 9: Söder Torn: 83: 24: 1997 10: DN-skrapan: 84: ...
In 1994, Skogskyrkogården was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site and although it does not have the number of famous interments as the Norra begravningsplatsen, its much older counterpart in northern Stockholm, it is a major tourist attraction. At the Tallum Pavilion (a building designed originally by Asplund as staff facilities), visitors can ...
Södra Bankohuset (Swedish: "The Southern [National] Bank Building") or Gamla Riksbanken ("The Old National Bank") is a building in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm, Sweden, together with Norra Bankohuset the location of the Bank of Sweden until 1906. Since December 2018, the building is housing Embark Studios, a Stockholm-based games ...
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Stockholm (Swedish: [ˈstɔ̂kː(h)ɔlm] ⓘ) [10] is the capital and most populous city of Sweden, as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.Approximately 1 million people live in the municipality, [11] with 1.6 million in the urban area, [12] and 2.4 million in the metropolitan area. [11]
Riddarfjärden (Swedish: [ˈrɪ̂dːarˌfjæːɖɛn], "The Knight Firth") is the easternmost bay of Lake Mälaren in central Stockholm.Stockholm was founded in 1252 on an island in the stream where Lake Mälaren (from the west) drains into the Baltic Sea (to the east); today the island is called Stadsholmen and constitutes Stockholm's Old Town.