A 27 meter high obelisk erected in year 2000 in, to commemorate Serbia’s victory over NATO armed forces. Mirjana Markovic, leader of ”Yugoslav Left” and wife of Slobodan Milosevic wanted the flames of the ”eternal gas flame” at the top to be as high as the monument it’s self. According to the engineer (in the lower right) who was part of the building team, this would have been dangerous and
Liljeholmen Shopping Mall, Stockholm, 2012. An inaccessible space for the public, the glass construction on the floor of the ”shaft” is for letting daylight into the mall.
Repetetive pattern of villas in the residential area of Enebyberg, municipality of Danderyd, in Northern Stockholm county.
Rotebro; in the distance, a footbridge over railway tracks.
The Gallerian shopping mall was built in the 1970’s and has since been rebuilt a couple of times, the latest change was among other things a new entrance at the end of Hamngatan. The stairway and escalator leads to the in some ways disreputable Malmskillnadsgatan. Left image from 2001, to the right 2012. Some more images from the same place taken in 2001. This environment has now disappeared. The area around
Under the Essinge elevated highway in the Stockholm suburb of Gröndal. I think these kinds of places are interesting since they seem to be hard to fit in to, and make use of, in the general city plan. Usually this spot have traces and leftovers from work within the informal economy. The viaduct itself is a part of European route E4 and E20
Lugnet was an industrial area and in Södra hammarbyhamnen in southern part of Stockholm. An anthropologist who had made a field study in the area, described it as a shanty town where people worked and lived. Although it was in many senses an unique area (from a Swedish perspective) very little is written about the place. During the 1990’s, before it was erased, Lugnet was in decay and became a churchyard
Victoria Tower in Kista (in northern Stockholm) as viewed from the highway going from north to south. According to architect Gert Wingårdh, the shape of the tower was inspired by the glittering microphone of Swedish singer Charlotte Perrelli, performing ”Hero” in the 2008 Eurovision song contest.
Passed this unexploited field in Sollentuna, close to Djupdalsvägen, today. Behind the roundabout and the gas station, the residential area of Häggvik is visible. View of the field to the south. In the background a four storey office building. Two people are crossing the field. .