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1897 by the architect Erik
Lallerstedt. Its present look ties in
with the Royal Opera House (see
p66) and the Royal Palace (see
pp50–53), whose architect Tessin
the Younger had a vision of this
area as an extension of his work.
Traces of the older buildings
can still be seen. The interior of
the small meeting room was
design ed by Carl Fredrik
Adelcrantz around 1780, and two
tiled stoves from the same period
have been preserved, plus the
main porch facing Jakobsgatan.
Rosenbad, home of the Government and City Council committees
7 Rosenbad 8 Konstakademien
Rosenbad 4. Map 4 A2. Fredsgatan 12. Map 4 A2. Tel 08-23 29
 Kungsträdgården. @ 3, 53, 62, 65. 45.  T-centralen, T- Kungsträdgården.
Closed to the public. @ 3, 53, 62, 65. Open 11am –5pm
Tue –Fri, noon– 4pm Sat & Sun. 7
Since 1981, the Rosenbad entrance at Jakobsgatan 27C. -
complex – a collection of ∑ konstakademien.se
palatial buildings overlooking
the Strömmen channel – The art collections of
has housed the Swedish Konstakademien (Royal Academy Interior of Klara Kyrka with decor by Olle
Government and the Prime of Fine Arts) reflect more than 250 Hjortzberg
Minister’s private office in years of paint ings and sculptures,
three internally linked sites. mostly by past and present mem- 9 Klara Kyrka
Three of the late 19th bers. There are almost 800 Klarabergsgatan 37. Map 2 C4.
century’s most notable sculptures, most of them plaster Tel 08-411 73 24.  T-centralen
architects were commissioned casts that were once used in @ 52, 59, 65. Open 10am–5pm
to design these buildings. The drawing classes. They range Sun–Fri, 5–7:30pm Sat. 5 11am Sun.
Venetian-style palace along from Michelangelo’s enormous 7 -
Strömgatan was the last one to Moses to small plant ornaments
be added, in 1904. Designed by intended as inspira tion for The convent of St Klara stood on
Ferdinand Boberg (1860–1916), interiors and design. the site of the present church
it used to house private Between Fredsgatan and and cemetery until 1527, when
apartments, a bank and a Jakobsgatan, the imposing corner it was pulled down on the
popular restau rant, traces of house was designed by Tessin the orders of Gustav Vasa. Later, his
which survive in the Elder in the early 1670s. The Royal son Johan III commissioned a
ornamentation of the open Academy moved in while under new church, completed in 1590.
loggia facing the water. the pat ronage of Gustav III in the The church was ravaged by fire
Gustav Wickman (1858–1916) late 18th century. It has been in 1751, and its recon struction
designed the pink sandstone rebuilt several times, the latest in was planned by the period’s
house on the corner of two outstanding architects, first
Fredsgatan and Drottninggatan Carl Hårleman and later C F
in exuberant, almost Baroque- Adelcrantz. The pulpit was
like, Jugendstil. The Skåne Bank made in 1753 to Hårleman’s
moved into this building in 1900. design, and J T Sergel (see p85)
The Florentine-style house on created the angelic figures in
Fredsgatan facing Rödbod torget the north ern gallery. A pair of
is three years older. It was identical angels adorn the
designed by Aron Johansson exquisite chancel, based on the
(1860–1936), architect of the old sculptor’s gypsum originals.
Parliament building on In the 1880s, the 116-m
Helgeandsholmen. (380-ft) tower was added and
Rosenbad got its name from a for many years could be seen
former 17th-century bath house, from all over the city. The
which offered bathers a choice of 20th-century church artist, Olle
a lily bath, a chamomile bath or a The Fredsgatan entrance Hjortzberg, created the vault
rose bath – rosenbad in Swedish. of Konstakademien paintings, dating from 1904.

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