Stockholm public library

Stockholm Public Library (Stockholms stadsbibliotek or Stadsbiblioteket) (1924 - 28, 1932) by Erik Gunnar Asplund in Stockholm, Sweden.

Introduction Analyzed by the Board of the Public Library, which Asplund part, the project presented in 1922 was approved and construction began in 1924. Asplund abandoned earlier ideas and changed, for structural reasons, economic and formal, the dome designed Originally, in favor of a roundabout, a cylinder whose height granted to certain foreign monumental building. […]

British architecture studio Caruso St John has won a competition to restore and expand the Stockholm City Library by Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund.

Stockholm Public Library (1928) - Erik Gunnar Asplund

City Library, Stockholm, Sweden by Gunnar Asplund 1918-28 A photomontage consisting of two photos taken inside and outside the building.

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Stockholm Public Library (stadsbiblioteket) by architect Gunnar Asplund. A great place to try out wide angle lenses. Taken with a Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa rangefinder with a Cosina-Voigtländer 21/4 Color Skopar lens on Kodak Ektar 100 film.

Completed in 1928 in Norrmalm, Sweden. With its simple geometry and classical arrangement, Stockholm’s Public Library is a difficult building to characterize. Designed by noted Swedish...

Visit the open shelved, three story, circular shaped Stockholm Public Library to be surrounded on all sides by more than 2,000,000 titles.