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Stockholms Stadshus, Stockholm

Architect: Ragnar Östberg

Built in: 1911-1923

Client: The City of Stockholm

 

The City Hall was built between 1911-1923 to the design of Ragnar Östberg. It came to be his most famous building and a total of 8 million bricks was used. Inspired by palaces of the Renaissance, Ragnar Östberg had the City Hall built around two piazzas, the Civic Court and the Blue Hall. The Blue Hall and the mosaic clad Golden Hall are most known for being the annual host of the Nobel Prize Banquet.

 

The City Hall is the workplace for the city’s politicians and civil servants and it is also here where the City Council have their meetings.

 

On the location where the City Hall was built, there was earlier a mill, the famous Eldkvarnen, which was ravaged by fire in 1878.

 

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