Stockholm Waterfront

Stockholm Waterfront in full harmonic integration with 2 iconic buildings, Stockholm Central Station (foreground) and Ragnar Östberg´s City Hall,the most important Landmark of the City since 1923. 


The complex is built for three functions called: Waterfront

Building (for offices) Radisson Blu Stockholm Waterfront 

(Hotel) and Stockholm Waterfront Congress center. 





Stockholm Waterfront by WHITE, Sweden.


Client: Jarl Asset Management.

Project timeline: 2005-2011


Functions: Hotel, Offices and Congress Center. 
  
                 418 Hotel Rooms. 3000 Seats for the Congress Center.


Team: Bengt Svensson, (Main Architect)

Hans Forsmark, Raimo Joss, Bengt Mührer, Linda Thiel, Karin Planting-Bergloo

Kaveh Ghorashi, Mats Anslöv, Thomas Peinert, Robert Niziolek, Mats Holmberg.

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                                                                  Photos: © Al Oliver, 2015.

Nyhavn | Copenhagen | Denmark

Vintage houses in all of their colorful glory along Nyhavn (New Harbor) Copenhagen, Denmark. The bustling and perhaps most visited area in the city. Boasting perfectly preserved houses dating back from the 17th Century, and pedestrianized in 1980, Nyhavn is today an entertainment area lined by cafes, bars and restaurants and visited by locals and people from all corners of the world.

The Northern side (featured in the picture) is lined by cheerful colored houses built with both wood and bricks, being the oldest of the buildings the House with the number 9, which dates from 1681.

Photo:  © Al Oliver. 

Stockholm | Central Station

Stockholm Central Station, Sweden´s busiest train Station with over 250,000 passengers per day, is one of the most important communication Hubs in the Country. Since 2008, Jernhusen AB commissioned to the prestigious Tengbom Architects Studio the task of rebuilding, renovating and expanding the building in order to adapt it to the New demands of a growing City.   

Visit Tengbom Architects web site in order to find out more about this challenging and exciting project.

Stockholm Central Station.
Photo:  © Al Oliver 2014

Stockholm´s Skyline. | Strömparterren

Photo:  © Al Oliver 2015

A view of Sweden´s Capital as seen from "Strömparterren", a little peninsula connected to the small Helgeandsholmen Islet in Central Stockholm. In the background, the sculpture by Carl Milles "The Sun Singer" and some other famous landmarks, including the Grand Hotel, Palmeska Huset and the southern side of Kungsträdgarden Park.

Skogskyrkogården, a Mystical Place. (Stockholm, Sweden)

Located in the South of Stockholm, Skogskyrkogården is a cemetery that due to its harmony between natural landscapes and architectural design, earned to be named as a UNESCO world heritage site in 1994. This wonderful architectural  (an why not even spiritual) complex was designed by the renowned architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, in 1914 - 1915 and the works began in 1917, being finished 3 years later. Just as its name in Swedish say (The Woodland Cemetery), this cemetery is placed in a forest among pines and boasts several true jewels of design like the Skogskrematoriet, designed by Asplund and completed in 1940, all in complete harmony with the surroundings: hills and forests, dark and sunny lighted atmospheres. You can barely think of death as the end as you get yourself to the top of the meditation grove (standing just in front of the main entrance) and watch for the beautiful landscape that somehow resembles Skåne in Southern Sweden. 

As you follow your way, you start to get into to the forest, and shadows replace the light creating a matchless atmosphere of self-reflection  and perhaps, just for a moment, you could be able to see rows of ethereal people standing by the graves, watching you nicely and quietly, with a face of peace following in silence your steps, 

Photos:  © Al Oliver

To know more: The Woodland Cemetery, in Stockholm Sweden.

Nordic Horizons.

Welcome to Nordic Horizons, an online journal founded by Al Oliver, photographer specialized in Architecture and Life Style that aims to provide coverage and analysis of some of the issues and affairs regarding Scandinavia in the form of news stories, photography, opinion pieces as well as provide other useful information for all the people interested in the Culture of this part of the World.

From time to time we will also feature reviews, interviews and collaborations with members of the Nordic Cultural scene, mainly with a focus in Architecture, Design and Life Style.


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The Swedish Royal Opera. Stockholm, Sweden. 

Photo:  © Al Oliver