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2008-09-21

...and heaven too

The high rise building in the background is the old "Tax scraper" (Skatteskrapan), now offering student housing, a posh shopping mall and restaurant/cocktail bar at the 25:th floor. An old high rise building in front of it is looking small.

Folkungagatan (map) 19 July 2008 | others bloggar

4 comments:

stromsjo said...

Another good example of a creative mix in architecture. We touched upon that subject on plenty last week as well.

Anonymous said...

How interesting the old and new next to each other.

Paz

Anonymous said...

You all have some wonderful buildings there!! Goddag

Kiwi said...

Goddag Carrie! Yes, I like this one. Think maybe 75 or 100 years back when five stories was unbelievably high. Remember Sweden was very much an agriculture society up into the mid nineteen hundreds.

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