Stockholm

The ICOMOS-Sweden President Nils Ahlberg was kind enough to give me a tour of an area in east Södermalm that includes much of Stockholm’s remaining wooden houses and buildings. I have few pictures from this tour due to our quick pace, but Nils taught me an interesting lesson about reading building age from a facade. He would point to a vertical section of wood siding and compare it to the next section over which was horizontal timbers. It was unfashionable to have exposed timbers after a certain time period, so likely the addition was built after that time.

Nils discussed the development period that these houses were built in and the change that surrounds them now. Agencies have purchased some of the these for lower income housing, and Nils said that while lacking some amenities they are quite nice places to live.

I spent my other days in Stockholm visiting old favorites: Stockholm city hall and the city library, and visiting new ones: Djurgården and Langholmen (where I was staying in an adaptively reused prison).

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