Jerusalem
Also known as Hyresfastigheten "Jerusalem"
1927
Vernacular
housing
The name is said to come from the noise: tenants kept up such a racket that locals compared it to the destruction of Jerusalem. LKAB put the building up in 1927 as a hostel for single mine workers, small identical rooms strung along a…
Timeline
- 1954
The interior was rebuilt in 1954, turning the corridor of identical single rooms into apartments for mining families. During the same decade the building was given its pale pastel scheme in green, brown and gray, set out by the painter…
Pierre Olofsson
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