Stockholm City Hall
Ragnar Östberg's brick landmark of 1923 on Kungsholmen, where the Nobel banquet is held each December.
Stockholm City Hall was designed by Ragnar Östberg and inaugurated on Midsummer Eve, 23 June 1923, three hundred years after the city received its charter of 1523. It is the best known work of the Swedish National Romantic movement, built of about eight million dark red bricks on the eastern tip of Kungsholmen, with a square tower 106 metres high crowned by the three gilded crowns of the Swedish coat of arms. The building remains the seat of the city council and the municipal administration.
Visitors are taken through the ceremonial rooms on guided tours. The Blue Hall, a brick courtyard roofed over and never in fact painted blue, holds the Nobel banquet each 10 December. Above it the Golden Hall is lined with about eighteen million gilded mosaic tiles designed by Einar Forseth, showing the Queen of Lake Mälaren between East and West. Other rooms include the Council Chamber with its open timber roof, the Oval Room hung with Flemish tapestries, and the Prince's Gallery.
Highlights
- National Romantic landmark of 1923 by Ragnar Östberg
- Tower 106 m high, topped by the Three Crowns
- Blue Hall, setting of the Nobel banquet each 10 December
- Golden Hall with around 18 million mosaic tiles by Einar Forseth
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