Stortorget (Kalmar)
Also known as Stortorget, Stortorget Kalmar, Stortorget, Kalmar, The Big Square
1651
landscape
Kalmar moved out to the island of Kvarnholmen in the 1640s for military protection, and Stortorget was set into the fortified grid that quartermaster general Johan Wärnschiöldh drew in 1651, with Storgatan as its symmetry axis. The square…
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- 1651
Stortorget was set out at the middle of Kvarnholmen in the grid plan for the new fortified Kalmar, drawn by quartermaster general Johan Wärnschiöldh and approved in 1651. Storgatan runs through the island on a southwest to northeast axis…
Johan Wärnschiöldh
- 2003
After a 1999 competition the square was relaid to a design by Caruso St John with artist Eva Löfdahl, lifting and reusing the existing cobbles and flagstones alongside new paving and field stones. The reworked square opened in April 2003.
Caruso St John, Eva Löfdahl
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