Stockholm Public Library

Stockholm Public Library

Also known as Asplundhuset, Stockholms stadsbibliotek

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Year

1928

Architect

Gunnar Asplund Gunnar Asplund

Type

building

Erik Gunnar Asplund's library opened in 1928 as the high point and conclusion of Nordic Classicism in Sweden. The geometric scheme is a cylinder set inside a cube: a roughly 24-metre rotunda surrounded by four lower rectangular wings, all c …

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