Studio: international art (90.1925)

THE STOCKHOLM CITY HALL. BY again taken a place of honour and been
PROFESSOR MELCHIOR WERN- allowed wholly to dominate the facade, in

STEDT.

which natural stone and details of other
materials play a merely enlivening and

ON Midsummer Eve, 1923, the Stock- decorative part. The deep red walls and

holm City Hall was formally opened tower mirror their masses gravely and

after the work of building had gone on solemnly in the waters of Lake Malar,

for well-nigh twelve years. For the City which surrounds the building on two sides.

Council and the boards connected there- The copper-clad roofs, the summits of the

with the completion of the City Hall towers and the spires with their graceful

meant the acquisition of suitable ad- forms and rich gilding speak a more

ministrative premises and the centralisa- joyous speech and make a finer and gentler

tion of the more important municipal harmony with the other pinnacles and

offices in one and the same building ; but towers of the town. It is the position and

at the same time the City of Stockholm its aesthetic possibilities which have been

obtained within the same edifice the turned to account and utilised in the

premises that were necessary for official placing, the shaping and the grouping of

receptions and festivals. For Swedish the building as a whole. 000

architecture the City Hall forms the The effect of the gleaming waters of

centre of gravity in the national and Malar immediately strikes a visitor on his

romantic phase which took the place of entry into the Civic Court. Under the

the arid academism of the latter part of arch in the shady range of buildings on

the nineteenth century and gave new life the north one comes into the enclosed

to the stiff formal speech of architecture, and paved court (the " Civic Court "),

Brick as a building material has here once which gently slopes under the open portico

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