Vasastaden stockholm
Vasastanvasastaden stockholm formally VasastadenSwedish for "Vasa town" is a 3. The major parks in Vasastaden are Vasaparken and Observatorielunden near the centre and Vanadislunden and Bellevueparken in the north. The city district, most likely named after the street Vasagatanin its turn named after King Gustav Vasa inwas still a peripheral part of the city in the early s.
Before the end of that decade, however, some buildings had been built and only the properties along Odengatan remained vacant. The expansion was preceded by a city plan established ina slightly more modest edition of the intentions of city planner Albert Lindhagenin its turn largely a continuation north of an original 17th-century plan. Like the Baroque plan, the new plan took little or no account of local topographic variations, and where the two failed to reconcile, sites were simply set aside as parks or for major structures such as the Sabbatsberg Hospital.
Compared to central Stockholm, streets were widened to 18 metres, except for the main east-west-bound street Odengatan which was made 30 metres wide and adorned with plantings after continental prototypes. In accordance with construction charters from the s, building corners where filleted and building heights adopted to street width and limited to vasastaden stockholm floors — embellishing proportions intended to bring light and air into the urban space.
The Neo-Renaissance plaster architecture of the middle class residential buildings in southern Vasastaden is highly reminiscent of the Ringstraße in Vienna ; the ground floors are dominated by horizontal elements with columns and pilasters above, while accentuated cornices closes the vertical compositions. Later architects failed to appreciate these Neo-Renaissance buildings and freed many of them of most of their decorations.
The north-eastern part of the district is called Sibirien Siberia in English. The area borders Östermalm but has historically been a stronghold for the working class.
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The origin of the name Sibirien Eng. Siberia originates from a time when the area was inhabited by vasastaden stockholm poor, who could not afford heating. People started to say that the area was "as cold and as far away as Siberia", hence the nickname. In the north-western corner of the district are eight blocks forming Birkastadennamed after the 9th century settlement Birkasometimes called Rörstrandsområdet the "Rörstrand Area" which forms the compact northern frontier of Stockholm's historical city centre.
As described above, Lindhagen's original intentions for the elevated area was to keep it as a park featuring the 17th century avenue of Karlberg Palace.
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In the city plan ofhowever, the area was divided into two large blocks, which on a request from the local landowner, porcelain factory Rörstrandin were split up into smaller properties. This resulted in a new city plan which was adopted to local topographic variations and therefore features non-perpendicular street crossings. Few buildings were constructed before the start of the 20th century, but construction work soon boomed to culminate in —06, speculation causing many buildings to change owners several times before their completion.
The buildings of Birkastan feature oriel windowstowers on the corners, rounded pediments and bright and plain plaster façades with thrifty decorations. As a result of speculation, the backyards are narrow, and many vasastaden stockholm shadowy. From the start, however, Birkastan was a mixed area shared by vasastaden stockholm low and high income earners.
Röda bergen "Red Mountains"the hilly area just north of Birkastan, was unsuitable for the regular and perpendicular street pattern envisaged for Vasastaden, but proved excellent for the new city planning ideals where the terrain was allowed to govern city plans. The plan for Röda Bergen was designed by P O Hallmanwho during the s also produced similar plans for Lärkstaden inspired by the ideas of Austrian architect Camillo Sitte.
His plan for Röda Bergen was adopted inbut because of World War I most of these plans remained unrealised until the s. In the plan, slightly modified by Sigurd Lewerentzwas finally established. The buildings facing the surrounding blocks are traditional 5—6 floors residential buildings forming a wall around Röda Bergen. From the monumental eastern entrance, an avenue Rödabergsgatan leads west to a round elevated space where a church was originally planned.
Perpendicular to this avenue, the heavily trafficked Torsgatan cuts through the area. The blocks within Röda Bergen are limited to 2—3 floors and most of the backyards are open in one end, which allows for plenty of sun light and series of spaces appealing to the eye. Hallman's design was a sharp break with the contemporary narrow, dark, and often filthy backyards.
In contrast to them, the involved architects — including Björn HedwallPaul Hedqvistand Sven Wallander — carefully detailed the façades and gables facing the interior with simple classical ornaments and warm red and yellow colours. Of the 2.
St. Matthew's Church, Stockholm
The area next to the Sankt Eriksbron bridge was until the turn of century a heavily industrial district. The Atlas Areaeast of the bridge and named after industrial company Atlas AB whose workshops used to occupy the area, presents features unique to Stockholm. The plan for the area was passed in and construction works immediately followed. In contrast to the newly built Röda Bergen, much of which was built by HSBthe builders at Atlas were private entrepreneurs.
While this resulted in a much criticized high exploitation, the city building committee in concluded the area could boast an intelligible order and a regularity the neighbouring Rörstrand Area still couldn't present notwithstanding recent redesign attempts. The most striking feature of Atlas is vasastaden stockholm level difference between the surrounding streets and the area itself.
St. Matthew's Church, Stockholm in Vasastaden, Stockholm
Like at Röda Bergen, the buildings delimiting Atlas form vasastaden stockholm coherent wall where the exterior façades are six floors tall while the interior façades are nine floors tall. The buildings inside the area are 5—6 floors, concealing the dark narrow backyards while separated by widened streets with plantations. The difference in level was solved by mean of monumental flights of stairs resulting in the tall porticoes leading into the area.
The flats in Atlas were small — 1—2 rooms and a kitchen — and dark — a result of exploitation and the wide building volumes — but featured modernities such as central heating and bathrooms.