The early 1930s saw few construction projects realized, and when a builder willing to carry the project out finally appeared, he demanded that the plan should be redrawn in accordance to a proposal by Ragnar Östberg — a plan featuring buildings 10 m wide arranged in an unmistakably classicist manner.
While the indoor courtyard was also used at this time by Ragnar Östberg at the "Blue Hall" in the Stockholm City Hall, at Liljevalch Bergsten managed to combine traditional details with the newest concrete construction technique, and the art gallery was thus a forerunner to the modern architecture still to come.
Ragnar Bragason | Ragnar Östberg | Ragnar Nurkse | Ragnar Tørnquist | Ragnar Frisch | Ragnar Skanåker | Ragnar Bøe Elgsaas | Ragnar Ulstein | Ragnar Ulfung as ''Jeník'' in The Bartered Bride | Ragnar Löfstedt | Ragnar Hasselgren | Ragnar Fjørtoft | Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson | Frida Östberg |
Born in Stockholm in October 1889, he attended the Royal Institute of Technology and the Academy of Arts in Stockholm from 1910 to 1915, later working at the offices of Ragnar Östberg and Erik Lallerstedt.
Scandinavian public architecture was much admired, notably the simplified classical lines of Ragnar Östberg's Stockholm City Hall (1909–32).