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The Mushroom

The Mushroom

Also known as Svampen, Svampen, Örebro, Vattentornet Svampen

Year

1958

Style

Functionalism

Type

water tower

Svampen is a 58-meter reinforced-concrete water tower on Örebro's northern ridge, completed in 1958 to a design by Sune Lindström and Poul Kyhl at the engineering firm VBB. Its silhouette gives it its name: a slender 10.5-meter shaft…

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  1. 1958

    Original construction

    Sune Lindström, Poul Kyhl

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