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3 unusual facts about Stockholm City Hall


Charles Holloway James

A building on a grand scale, it combines James's neo-Georgian architecture with a reference to the then fashionable Swedish movement and the tower of Stockholm City Hall at Ostberg.

Jönssonligan får guldfeber

The film includes a famous scene, where Jönsonligan's leader, Sickan Jönsson, is tied to the digits of a giant clock on the tower of the Stockholm City Hall.

Liljevalchs konsthall

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.


Riddarfjärden

Stockholm City Hall, a red brick building with a bell tower, where the Nobel Prize dinner is served


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