A reader e-mailed and complained that our ”heart”-texts become for egocentrerade and they rarely all about Stockholm. I therefore intend to dedicate this to a building in Södermalm, stockholm.
Söderhallarna is one of the city’s best examples of postmodern architecture. The house, with the white, glass-fronted, geometric windows and rödblått terrazzo floor, was erected shortly after his stilfrände Bofills bow in 1992.
some architects towards the austere, prevailing modernism, which they felt lacked both the historical and local connection. The response was a motley stilbildning which is characterized by a sometimes apart the use of arches, arcades, and other classical ornamentation. Postmodernism has often hånats in familiar circles.
The atriumformade the market hall, go in the red, blue and beigegult and columns stretching up to the ceiling. Spegelväggarna at the cafe South Espresso looks almost glamkitschiga out. Compared to the functionalist Medborgarhuset next to give the building a little plojigt impression.
far from being so well attended as at the opening. The stores are largely the same as it was then. On the upper floor is a väskaffär, a bra-ditto, an optometrist and The English Shop, Stockholm’s only uk store. Cirkusapeskulpturen has disappeared and the halvloja jazz club in the basement have gone to the grave.
Now, the real estate company Atrium Ljungberg renovate the building. And I hope they do it with reverence. For it tends to be so with the architecture – what was once hated suddenly becomes jätteinne.
the only Check on the brutalismen. In recent years, two soffbordsböcker come on the betongiga style, in which the Danish film museum, the school of architecture and the kaknäs tower receive attention.
John Falkirk is a reporter at the DN Sthlm and don’t like always to write funny lyrics.
