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Volvo Photo Locations Part 351

2020 – Volvo V60 B6 Inscription at Sundstabacken under Skanstullsbron in Hammarby, Stockholm 🇸🇪

2018 – Volvo V60 at Sundstabacken under Skanstullsbron in Hammarby, Stockholm 🇸🇪

2020 – Sundstabacken under Skanstullsbron in Hammarby Stockholm (Google Streetview)

2020 – Sundstabacken under Skanstullsbron in Hammarby Stockholm (Google Streetview)

2020 – Sundstabacken under Skanstullsbron in Hammarby Stockholm (Google Streetview)

Sundstabacken is a road leading under Skanstullsbron in Hammarby, Stockholm.

Skanstullsbron is a bridge in central Stockholm, Sweden. Overpassing the older bridge Skansbron, it connects the major island Södermalm to the southern district Johanneshov.

The first proposal for an elevated bridge stretching over the canal Hammarbykanalen was produced in 1921, before work on the lower Skansbron bridge began in 1923. It remained the favoured bridge design to solve the increasing traffic load of the area during the 1920s and 1930s and was approved by the city council in 1939. World War II led to shortage of both finance and material, but work was started in 1944 and the new bridge was inaugurated in 1947.

Skanstullsbron is a concrete double viaduct, with one bridge for vehicles and pedestrians and the other for the metro. Its total length is 574 metres of which 403 metres consists of the 16 spans of the southern beam bridge. The three central spans, 118, 112, and 106 metres long, offer a maximum horizontal clearance of 32 metres and a panoramic view of the surrounding city.

More information at sv.wikipedia.org.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 350

1962 – Volvo P1800 at Wenner-Gren Center on Sveavägen in Stockholm Sweden 🇸🇪.

2020 – Wenner-Gren Center on Sveavägen in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

2020 – Wenner-Gren Center on Sveavägen in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

Wenner-Gren Center is a tower and building complex in Vasastaden, Stockholm, Sweden. The building was constructed 1959–1961, and opened in 1962.

The Center consists of three buildings named Helicon, Pylon and Tetragon. Pylon is a high tower, Helicon is a lower semicircular part surrounding the tower, and Tetragon is a box-shaped building next to the tower. Helicon contains housing for visiting scientists to institutions in the Stockholm area, and this part is owned by one of the Wenner-Gren Foundations.

1964 – Wenner-Gren Center on Sveavägen in Stockholm

The rest of the complex consists of commercial rental space, although some of it is traditionally used by scientific organisations, such as research-granting bodies.

1957 – Dr Axel Wenner-Gren with Volvo PV444 (Ratten 1957)

The Center is named after the businessman Axel Wenner-Gren, who donated funds to finance its construction, after Nobel Prize winner Hugo Theorell had lobbied for having the housing need of visiting scientists addressed.

More information at sv.wikipedia.org and sabismoten.se.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 349

2017 – Volvo XC90 at Björkviksvägen on Ingarö in Värmdö outside Stockholm 🇸🇪

2017 – Volvo XC90 at Björkviksvägen on Ingarö in Värmdö

2019 – Volvo XC90 at Björkviksvägen in Ingarö on Värmdö outside Stockholm Sweden

2019 – Volvo XC90 at Björkviksvägen in Ingarö on Värmdö outside Stockholm Sweden

2019 – Volvo XC90 at Björkviksvägen in Ingarö on Värmdö outside Stockholm Sweden

2020 – Björkviksvägen on Ingarö in Värmdö (Google Streetview)

2020 – Björkviksvägen on Ingarö in Värmdö (Google Streetview)

Björkviksvägen is located in Ingarö on Värmdö, east of Stockholm.

Ingarö is an island in Värmdö Municipality, Stockholm County. The chief settlement is called Brunn. With an area of 63.26 km2, it is the 16th biggest island in Sweden. Petroglyphs indicate that the island has been inhabited since the Nordic Bronze Age. For most of the 20th century the resident population decreased, while at the same time many vacation homes were built. However, in recent years population has grown as new homes are being built and vacation homes are being converted into permanent homes. Improved communications has made it feasible to commute to Stockholm.

In Ingarö cemetery lie the remains of the first Swedish aviator, Carl Cederström, also known as Kalle Flygare. The island has a 36-hole golf course, as well as tennis courts. A nude beach is located at Återvallssjön, the first of its kind in Sweden.

Ingarö has been the location for movie-making, including parts of the 1993 film Sune’s Summer and parts of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo featuring Daniel Craig.

On 14 June 2008, Esbjorn Svensson (great pianist for the jazz band E.S.T) went missing during a scuba diving session. His diving companions, including an instructor and his then 14-year-old son, eventually found him lying unconscious on the seabed at 44 years old.

More information at sv.wikipedia.org and visitskargarden.se.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 348

1990 – Volvo 480 on Norr Mälarstrand in Stockholm 🇸🇪

1990 – Volvo 480 on Norr Mälarstrand in Stockholm 🇸🇪

1990 – Volvo 480 at Norr Mälarstrand in Stockholm 🇸🇪

2020 – Norr Mälarstrand in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

2020 – Norr Mälarstrand in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

Norr Mälarstrand is a street on Kungsholmen in central Stockholm, Sweden.

Bordering Riddarfjärden, the eastern-most bay of Lake Mälaren, Norr Mälarstrand is a southbound boulevard stretching 1,4 km west from the Stockholm City Hall to the southern end of the street Sankt Eriksgatan. The most notable structures along the street are the series of functionalist residential buildings lined-up along its western part. The park facing the waterfront south of the street is popular for walks.

A first proposal for a boulevard on the location in 1863–64, intended to embellish the area with a westbound entrance to the city similar to Strandvägen, the simultaneously proposed eastbound boulevard which, in contrast to the former, was actually built and became the grandiose front of the eastern district Östermalm. For Norr Mälarstrand, however, it would take another half-century before construction work on the Stockholm City Hall (1911–23) resulted in the urbanization of the area.

A garrison of engineers stationed along the shore prevented an extension of the street until they were relocated elsewhere in the early 1920s. By that time, new garden cities in the suburbs had resulted in an increasing need for new western approach into the city. In 1928 the city bought the land from the Crown and a plan for the area designed by Albert Lilienberg the same year was accepted in 1930. Stepped gables then present were removed and replaced by the evenly spaced functionalist silhouettes — the nine floors of which resulted in comparisons with cities in America and the epithet “Manhattan of Stockholm”.

The traditional dark, enclosed city blocks were opened up south and made into public parks, inviting light, air, and people in. A park designed by Erik Glemme was realised south of the street which transformed the street into a modern “riverside drive”.[2] The park forms the first section of a series of parks stretching west across Kungsholmen — a style of urban parks known as the “Stockholm Style” (Stockholmsstilen) which was internationally acknowledge at the time.[3] The buildings, most of them completed within two years, were adorned with characteristic Functionalist details, such as windows on corners, accentuated balconies, and flat roofs. Many of the buildings are, however, also adorned with classical details, including a building designed by architect Ragnar Östberg, an ambivalence which reflects the transition from the National Romantic Swedish architecture of the 1920s to the Functionalism introduced with the Stockholm Exhibition 1930.

Björn Hedvall, an architect who had realised the first Functionalist building on the street before 1930, is responsible for three of the southbound properties and more than a dozen of the other buildings in the blocks. On the John Ericssonsgatan street, architect Sven Markelius designed a radically new residential concept for collective accommodation. Influenced by the ideas of Alva and Gunnar Myrdal, the building, constructed 1934–35, featured small flats with many shared utilities throughout the building, including a food elevator bringing telephone-ordered dinners up from the restaurant on the ground floor; a chute for laundry; cleaning staff; and kindergartens. While this was one of the first such projects realised in Europe, a new concept which appealed to the radical intellectuals who settled there, the 50 apartments were served by 22 employees — a luxury few could afford.

More information at sv.wikipedia.org and historiskahem.se.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 347

2018 – Volvo V60 at Vattenledningsvägen in Hägersten Stockholm Sweden 🇸🇪

2018 – Volvo V60 at Vattenledningsvägen in Hägersten Stockholm Sweden 🇸🇪

2020 – Vattenledningsvägen in Hägersten, Stockholm (Google Streetview)

2020 – Vattenledningsvägen in Hägersten, Stockholm (Google Streetview)

Vattenledningsvägen is located in Hägersten, Stockholm.

Hägersten is an urban district of Stockholm. It is located in the borough of Hägersten-Liljeholmen, which was formed 1 January 2007 by merging the former boroughs of Hägersten and Liljeholmen.

The name of the town of Haegrasteen is first mentioned in a letter from 1432. The area belonged to Hägerstens farm, which was secluded from Årsta Gård in 1763. The farm is at Hägerstensbrinken 27-31, and the current building was erected about 1755. Father Höks tavern is known since the end of 1600 number and was at Mälaren beach, Klubbudden. Carl Michael Bellman has written about his visits to the pub in Epistel 42, Moving card game at Klubben and Epistel 49, On the land rise at Klubben in Lake Mälaren one summer evening in 1769.

From the 1860s it became popular to have a summer fun here, the first summer pleasure was Gunnarsberg on Eolshällsvägen. Other notable houses are Johanneslund (1860), Fridshyddan at Källbacken 12 (1878) and Sagatun at Brådstupsvägen 27, erected in Old Norse style in 1881.

The first town plan came in 1923 and included an area west of Storsvängen. However, there were already a large number of villas in the western part of the district. In 1930, it was expanded with additional blocks in the same area, and many villas were erected east of Storsvägen and south of S:t Mickelsgatan. The first multi-family houses became the narrow houses on Hägerstensvägen, they were built in 1936. In the 1940s, the area around Klubbacken, architect Björn Hedvall , was added. Between 1943 and 1945, six residential buildings were also built on the mountain by Brådstupsvägen, architect was Björn Hedvall.

In the mid-1960s, 17 record houses were erected around Axelsberg’s metro station, designed by architect Trig Ancker, Bengt Gate and Sten Lindegren. In 1967–1971, around 80 townhouses were erected along the Hägerstensbrinken and Hägerstens avenue, the architect was FFNS. In the late 1980s, point houses were erected at Hägerstenshamnen in eight floors, also designed by FFNS.

In the early 2000s, Hägersten developed into something of a hub for the freight and logistics industry. DHL and Brings main terminals in Sweden.

More information at sv.wikipedia.org.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 346

2018 – Volvo V60 at Folkhem Strandparken on Hamngatan near Bällstaviken in Sundbyberg, Stockholm 🇸🇪

2018 – Volvo V60 at Folkhem Strandparken on Hamngatan near Bällstaviken in Sundbyberg, Stockholm 🇸🇪

2018 – Volvo V60 at Folkhem Strandparken on Hamngatan near Bällstaviken in Sundbyberg, Stockholm 🇸🇪

2020 – Folkhem Strandparken in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

2020 – Folkhem Strandparken in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

The Strandparken apartment building was designed by Wingårdhs for property developer Folkhem, who was keen to explore the potential of sustainable multi-occupancy housing.

Containing 31 apartments, ranging in size from one to four bedrooms, the building is the first of four planned for a site located next to an inlet of the archipelago in the north of the city.

“They are probably the tallest residential buildings in the world made entirely from wood,” project architect Rasmus Wærn told Dezeen.

“However, things are happening fast in this field, and I do not think the height in itself is their most interesting feature – they could easily been taller if needed. Their main quality is that they make very comfortable, attractive and sustainable homes at a reasonable price.”

The structure’s load-bearing frame was constructed using prefabricated modules made from solid wood, which are anchored to the foundations by metal rods that ascend to the height of the attic.

The external shape borrows from the aesthetic of an archetypal house, with a pitched roof and gable ends, and was influenced by the prefabricated timber properties that have been constructed in Sweden for centuries.

“The buildings are almost emblematically simple, and relate more to the straightforward houses of the 1940s and 1950s than to a parametric twisted modernity,” said Wærn. “There is a urban awareness here that we think other architects and planners can relate to.”

Wingårdhs, whose previous projects vary from a golden shopping centre to a thatched visitors centre, used cedar shingles to clad each of the building’s facades. These help to emphasise the natural construction method, while more wood was also used internally for flooring and cladding in the circulation areas.

“Wood is, as we all know, a truly recyclable material that also provides dry and sound constructions,” added Wærn. “A problem is how to make them age with beauty, as repeated painting is out of the question. Our answer was shingles, as their natural variation takes care of the variation in colour that will appear as the wood turns grey.”

Balconies accessed through glazed sliding doors look out towards the water and provide an additional 13 square metres of floor space for each of the apartments.

Basement car parking is connected to the storeys above by lifts that open onto corridors, with space for benches and large windows that allow natural light to enter the interior.

More information at dezeen.com and svenskttra.se.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 345

2018 – Volvo V60 Inscription at Östermalms Saluhall on Östermalmstorg in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2018 – Volvo V60 Inscription at Östermalms Saluhall on Östermalmstorg in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2018 – Volvo V60 Inscription at Östermalms Saluhall on Östermalmstorg in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2018 – Volvo V60 at Östermalms Saluhall on Östermalmstorg in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

2018 – Volvo V60 at Östermalmstorg Saluhall on Östermalms in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

2018 – Volvo V60 at Östermalms Saluhall in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

2018 – Östermalmstorg Saluhall on Östermalms in Stockholm Sweden (own photo)

2018 – Östermalmstorg Saluhall on Östermalms in Stockholm Sweden (own photo)

2020 – Östermalms Saluhall on Östermalmstorg in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

1955 – Volvo PV444 at Östermalmstorg in Stockholm

2020 – Östermalms Saluhall on Östermalmstorg in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

Östermalms Saluhall is located on Östermalmstorg in Stockholm.

The current building is a temporary foodhall during the period that the original and old building is going through a huge renovation.

Östermalm’s torg was home to a thriving market trade until the municipality banned the sale of fresh produce outdoors in order to reduce health risks. In 1888 market trade moved in to the newly completed Market Hall on an adjacent site and the square lost its original function. With the erection of a temporary Market Hall directly on the square we are able to contemplate an alternative urban reality that could have been the result of a decision to retain the market’s central location in this busy thorough fare.

The old Market Hall was in desperate need of modernizing and during the period of its refurbishment there was a need to find a temporary home for the market’s traders in the local area, to retain their clientele. In lack of suitable spaces, the municipality decided on a temporary solution smack bang on Östermalm’s Square. In order to be able to house all the traders and the associated functions the building had to occupy the entire open area of the square.

From Stockholm city’s perspective it was important to turn the temporary loss of urban space into a positive addition to the urban fabric. We did this by applying considerable care to the design of the building. It required a sense of quality suitable to the local context and the historic Market Hall while using light weight, cost efficient and sustainable materials befitting the temporary nature of the building.

The temporary building’s facade consists of a lower band clad in vertical untreated pine battens of varying size mounted on plywood sheets. In the South West corner of the building and along the Eastern facade the wooden wall gives way to glazing, providing views into the Market Hall and views out for restaurant diners. The upper section of the façade is completely clad in a modular system of translucent multiwall polycarbonate sheeting, providing daylight during daytime and lights up during nighttime. The large scale structure is designed and built with a modular mounting system of steel brackets that enables quick erection and dismantling with the possibility for subsequent reuse and an alternative function at another location.

Market stalls, restaurants and storage are located on the ground floor; while kitchens and technical installations are located on the two mezzanines that stretch along the Northern and Southern facades. The market stalls are situated along wide, straight thoroughfares and the main entrance faces that of the old market hall on the edge of the square. With an entrance strategically located on each of the building’s four facades, the existing flow of pedestrian traffic is able continue across the square through the Market Hall during opening hours.

The goal has been to create an attractive temporary addition to the heart of Östermalm that has a positive effect on its surroundings day and night. A transient event in Stockholm’s urban history that will generate a strong flow of visitors to Östermalm and build upon the internationally renowned reputation of the historic Market Hall.

Longer opening hours in the temporary hall has brought the area new life during evenings, as well as a new clientele, without excluding or losing the patrons. A local newspaper recently reported that business actually is going better in the temporary hall, compared to the old. Tengbom architects were proud and happy to be able to show how good architecture pays off, both to the city, it’s inhabitants and to the market’s traders.

CD – All Jazzed Up and Ready to Move with music for Volvo V60 (back cover)

More information at tengbom.se and ostermalmshallen.se.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 344

2018 – Volvo XC40 at Torkels Terrass (with Münchenbryggeriet in the background) on Torkel Knutssonsgatan in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

2018 – Volvo XC40 at Torkels Terrass on Torkel Knutssonsgatan in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

2018 – Volvo XC40 at Torkels Terrass on Torkel Knutssonsgatan in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

2020 – Torkels Terrass on Torkel Knutssonsgatan in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

2020 – Torkels Terrass on Torkel Knutssonsgatan in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

2020 – Torkels Terrass on Torkel Knutssonsgatan in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

Torkels Terrass is located Torkel Knutssonsgatan in Stockholm. It is a popular place on Södra Mälarstrand close to the Münchenbryggeriet.

Torkel Knutssonsgatan is a street on Södermalm in Stockholm. It runs in a north-south direction from Söder Mälarstrand in the north to Wollmar Yxkullsgatan in the south. The street is approx. 700 meters long and crosses Hornsgatan halfway.

Torkel Knutssonsgatan got its name at the big name revision in 1885, when many of Stockholm’s street names were changed. The name is of the category “Fosterland and historical name”. Torkel (Torgils) Knutsson was national council and marshal under Magnus Ladulås.

The former name was Stora Skinnarviksgatan while the extension north down to Söder Mälarstrand came between 1885-1889. This extension, also called the “Uppfartsvägen” consists of an approximately 200 meters long ramp from Söder Mälarstrand and an extensive mountain cut through Skinnarviksberget. It was the first convenient road connection between Riddarfjärden and Södermalm.

More information at sv.wikipedia.org and munchenbryggeriet.se.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 343

2018 – Volvo XC40 at Tantolunden on Tantolundsvägen in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

2018 – Volvo XC40 at Tantolunden on Tantolundsvägen in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

2018 – Volvo XC40 at Tantolunden on Tantolundsvägen in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

2020 – Tantolunden on Tantolundsvägen in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

2020 – Tantolunden on Tantolundsvägen in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

Tantolunden is located on Tantolundsvägen in Stockholm. From Tantolunden you get a great view on Årstaviken!

Tantolunden is a large park by Årstaviken on the island of Södermalm. Its location close to the restaurants and cafés of Hornstull, Mariatorget, and SoFo has made the area a popular meeting place for young Stockholmers. People of all ages meet here for swimming and picnics in the summer and for sledding in the winter. There’s a playground, beach volleyball court, minigolf, a frisbee golf course, and an open-air theater. Don’t miss the chance to take a stroll up the hill and enjoy the more than 100 allotment gardens and garden sheds. Creative carpentry and gardening have been blooming behind the fences since 1915.

The park was designed in 1885 by Swedish garden architect Alfred Medin (1841-1910). The construction work continued until 1899, when it was considered that the park was completed. In 1906 a playground was arranged in the western part of the park.

More information at sv.wikipedia.org and visitstockholm.com.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 342

2018 – Volvo XC40 R-Design at Bondegatan and Östgötagatan in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

2018 – Volvo XC40 R-Design at Bondegatan and Östgötagatan in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

2020 – Bondegatan in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

2020 – Bondegatan in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

2018 – Volvo XC40 R-Design at Bondegatan 12 in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

2018 – Volvo XC40 R-Design at Bondegatan 12 in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

2020 – Bondegatan 12 in Stockholm (Google Streetview)

Bondegatan is a street on Södermalm in Stockholm. It received its present name in connection with the Name Revision in Stockholm in 1885. The street extends from Götgatan in the west through the whole of eastern Södermalm and ends at Tegelviksgatan. According to the 1885 plan for eastern Södermalm, Bondegatan would go all the way down to Hammarby lake, but the plan was never fulfilled and Bondegatan ended already at Tegelviksgatan.

More information at sv.wikipedia.org.