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Västertorp (Stockholm Metro)
Västertorp (''Westcroft'') is a district of the Hägersten-Liljeholmen Boroughs of Stockholm, borough in Söderort, the southern suburban part of Stockholm, Sweden. History The district was formed on February 1, 1948. The suburb was constructed between 1949 and 1954. The city plan was established by the city planning director Sven Markelius (1889-1972). In the center of Västertorp, the 11-storey high-rise center, nursing homes and old-age homes were erected in the late 1950s after drawings by architect Nils Sterner (1904-1990). Västertorp Västertorp (Stockholm Metro), metro station was opened in 1964. Västertorp School was designed in 1949 by architect Stig Åkermark (1903-1995) and was inaugurated in 1951. Västertorp gymnasium was designed by architect Curt Laudon (1906-1964). It was in use as a high school during the years 1957–1984. In 2007, the former school premises were converted into housing. Västertorp Sculpture Park (''Västertorps skulpturpark'') is a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hägersten-Liljeholmen
Hägersten-Liljeholmen was a borough (''stadsdelsområde'') in Stockholm, Sweden. It is part of the Söderort suburban area. The borough is located in South Stockholm. The districts that make up the borough are Aspudden, Fruängen, Gröndal, Hägersten, Hägerstensåsen, Liljeholmen, Midsommarkransen, Mälarhöjden, Västberga, and Västertorp. The population of Hägersten-Liljeholmen borough is 83,283 as of 2014. The borough was formed on January 1, 2007 by merging the Hägersten borough (Hägersten, Fruängen, Hägerstensåsen, Mälarhöjden and Västertorp) with Liljeholmen borough (Aspudden, Gröndal, Midsommarkransen, Västberga and a portion of Hägersten). Demographic history * The population of the Liljeholmen borough in 2004 was 30,450 on an area of 6.83 km2, giving it a density of 4,458/km2. * The population of Hägersten-Liljeholmen borough is 83,283 as of 2014. Sports The following sports clubs are located in Hägersten-Liljeholmen: * IFK Aspudden-Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boroughs Of Stockholm
Municipalities of Sweden, Municipalities in Sweden are in some rare cases divided into smaller districts or urban districts, and are sometimes assigned administrative boards responsible for certain areas of governance in their respective areas. These districts are not specified by national Swedish law, but rather are created by individual municipalities, and thus the Swedish names of these districts vary greatly from municipality to municipality, including kommundelar, stadsdelar, stadsdelområden, primärområden, or stadsdelsnämndsområden. The degree of administrative autonomy of these districts similarly varies greatly, but is normally very limited. On 1 January 2016 a new form of division of Sweden was introduced. This division is called Registration districts in Sweden, registration districts (). These are used for certain administrative purposes by some national authorities, such as land ownership and statistics. This is not the same as the ''urban districts'' which are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Söderort
Söderort (literally "the southern place", sometimes translated to ''South Stockholm'') is the southern suburban part of the Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. It is also part of the city of Stockholm. Geography Söderort is located in the northern part of the Södertörn peninsula/island. The boroughs of Söderort are: Enskede-Årsta-Vantör, Farsta, Hägersten-Liljeholmen, Skärholmen, Skarpnäck and Älvsjö. History The main part of Söderort was annexed by the ''City of Stockholm'' in 1913. Before 2007, it was organized into eight ''stadsdelsområden'': Enskede-Årsta, Farsta, Hägersten, Liljeholmen, Skarpnäck, Skärholmen, Vantör and Älvsjö. Since 2007, Söderort is organized into six ''stadsdelsområden'' (sometimes translated to boroughs): Enskede-Årsta-Vantör Enskede-Årsta-Vantör (listen ) is a Boroughs of Stockholm, borough (''stadsdelsområde'') in Söderort, the southern part of Stockholm, Sweden. Overview Årsta was under control of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.5 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. The city serves as the county seat of Stockholm County. Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the country's Gros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sven Markelius
Sven Gottfrid Markelius (25 October 1889 – 24 February 1972) was a Swedish modernist architect. Markelius played an important role in the post-war urban planning of Stockholm, for example in the creation of the model suburbs of Vällingby (1950s) and Farsta (1960s). Biography Born in Stockholm, he attended the Royal Institute of Technology and the Academy of Arts in Stockholm from 1910 to 1915, later working at the offices of Ragnar Östberg and Erik Lallerstedt. He developed an early interest in housing and planning, was one of the founder members of CIAM in 1928, and participated in the modernist housing section of the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930), the birth of Swedish Functionalism. In 1931, he co-authored the book-length manifesto ''" acceptera"'', promoting modernism as a set of cultural values. His association with Swedish reformer Alva Myrdal (1902–1986) resulted in a design for a 57-unit communal-living Collective House in the center of Stockholm, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Västertorp (Stockholm Metro)
Västertorp (''Westcroft'') is a district of the Hägersten-Liljeholmen Boroughs of Stockholm, borough in Söderort, the southern suburban part of Stockholm, Sweden. History The district was formed on February 1, 1948. The suburb was constructed between 1949 and 1954. The city plan was established by the city planning director Sven Markelius (1889-1972). In the center of Västertorp, the 11-storey high-rise center, nursing homes and old-age homes were erected in the late 1950s after drawings by architect Nils Sterner (1904-1990). Västertorp Västertorp (Stockholm Metro), metro station was opened in 1964. Västertorp School was designed in 1949 by architect Stig Åkermark (1903-1995) and was inaugurated in 1951. Västertorp gymnasium was designed by architect Curt Laudon (1906-1964). It was in use as a high school during the years 1957–1984. In 2007, the former school premises were converted into housing. Västertorp Sculpture Park (''Västertorps skulpturpark'') is a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stig Blomberg
Stig Blomberg (October 16, 1901 – December 19, 1970) was a Swedish sculptor. He was born in Linköping. In 1936 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the summer Olympic Games for his "Brottande pojkar" ("Wrestling Youths"). In 1956 he was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal for sculpture. See also *Art competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics Art competitions were held as part of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Medals were awarded in five categories (architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture), for works inspired by sport-related themes. The art exhibition ... References External links profile 1901 births 1970 deaths People from Linköping Swedish male sculptors Olympic bronze medalists in art competitions 20th-century Swedish sculptors Recipients of the Prince Eugen Medal Art competitors at the 1936 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics {{Sweden-sculptor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Grate
Eric Grate (August 14, 1896 – August 3, 1983) was a Swedish sculptor, painter, graphics artist, and teachers. Education Eric Grate studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm between 1917 and 1920. Thereafter he undertook study trips to Germany, especially to Munich, and to Italy and Greece. He moved to Paris in 1924 and stayed there for ten years. In France he lived in the companionship of a number of other Swedish artists, including Nils Dardel, Isaac Grünewald, Sigrid Hjertén, Otto G. Carlsund and Otte Sköld. Between 1941 and 1951 he was a professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. Grate has been commissioned for at great number of public works of art in Sweden. The most famous of its time was ''The Etymological Woman Theft'' which was erected outside the premises of Karolinska Institutet in Solna, a suburb of Stockholm, towards the end of the 1950s. This heralded the start of one of the fiercest public debates about the arts in Sweden dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efter Badet
''Efter badet'' (Swedish, 'After the Bath') is a public sculpture, cut in limestone and located in the Västertorp district of suburban Stockholm. It was designed by the sculptor Pye Engström, who spent five years between 1971 and 1976 working on it. Since 1976 it has been located outside of ''Västertorpshallen'', a municipally owned public bath. It is constructed as a bench, in which visitors can sit in the lap of seven different political figures depicted by Engström. From left to right, they are Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Paulo Freire, Sara Lidman, Mao Zedong, Angela Davis, Georg Borgström and Pablo Neruda. The sculpture has been the source of controversy in recent years. In 2006 Martina Lind ( sv), a local politician from the Liberal People's Party, proposed to the Assembly of Stockholm Municipality that the statue should be removed from public display, stating that the city "shouldn't celebrate one of the worst mass murderers in world history". She also requested monuments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
