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104  M ALM ARNA & FUR THER AFIELD

Östermalm & Gärdet

The four wide boulevards, Strandvägen, Karlavägen, Narvavägen
and Valhallavägen, were created around 1870–80 as part of
the development of Östermalm into one of the city’s most
affluent residential districts, adjoining the extensive green
area of Ladugårdsgärde. In addition to embassies and the
headquarters of Swedish Radio and TV, four leading museums
are located in this green oasis, as well as Kaknästornet. The
area between Östermalm and the former military exercise
grounds was developed in the 1930s with housing in the Housing at Karlaplan, built in the late
clean lines of the Functionalist style typical of the period. 19th century

Sights at a Glance
1 Strandvägen 8 Tekniska museet t Försvarshögskolan
2 Historiska museet (see pp106–7) 9 Gärdet y Stadion
3 Karlavägen 0 Etnografiska museet u Tekniska Högskolan
4 Sveriges Radio och TV q Kaknästornet i Engelbrektskyrkan
5 Berwaldhallen w Ladugårdsgärde
6 Diplomatstaden e Filmhuset
7 Sjöhistoriska museet r Tessinparken
Stockholm Ö
Tekniska Key
LIDINGÖVÄGEN Gärdet Central Stockholm
högskolan
Stadion
Major road
STURE GATAN Stadion VALHALLAVÄGEN Minor road
KARLAVÄGEN
Karlaplan
Öster- KARLA VÄGEN LINDARÄNGSVÄGEN
SIBYLLEGATAN NARVA VÄGEN DJURGÅRDSBRUNNSV ÄGEN
malms- LINNÉGATAN BANÉR GATAN LILLA VÄRTAN
torg OXENSTIERNSG
STRANDVÄGEN
0 metres 750
0 yards 750
1 Strandvägen becoming “a street, the like of soon became the elegant
which will not be found boulevard envisaged and, then
Map 5 E1. @ 69, 76. 
Östermalmstorg, Karlaplan. v 7. anywhere else in Europe”. It was a as now, it was a popular place
long pro cess. Even after all the for admiring the elegant
In the early 1900s Stockholm’s ten stately buildings had been façades, watching the boats
richest citizens lived in palatial completed, the wooden quay and to see and be seen.
new houses along Strandvägen. erected in the 1860s was The financiers behind the
Seven of them were wholesale something of an eyesore. It was housing projects of the early
merchants. Up to 1897’s major still used up to the 1940s by boats 1900s were wealthy and called
exhibition on Djurgården, the hilly bringing fire wood from the on the best architects, including
and muddy former Ladugårds­ archipelago islands. I G Clason (1856–1930). Clason
lands Strandgata had been All the same, Strandvägen was influenced by Italian and
moving towards the goal of and its three rows of lime trees French Renaissance styles for his
work on No. 19–21 (Thaveniuska
Huset) and No. 29–35
(Bünsowska Huset), where he
designed gateways made of
ship’s timbers. No. 55 (Von
Rosenska Palatset) was also
created by him.
2 Historiska
museet
Strandvägen with stately houses and boats along the quayside See pp106–7.
For map symbols see back flap

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