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draw pictures, listen to
stories or watch films. “Lava”
focuses on youth culture
nationwide. There is a library
for fans of strip cartoons
and reading rooms providing
computers, newspapers
and magazines.
Among the shops here
is Designtorget, selling
items of Swedish design.
There are two cafés: the
top-floor Café Panorama
offers diners fantastic city
views, while Café Ekoteket
serves organic and locally
produced food and also
Edvin Öhrström’s obelisk in Sergels Torg, with Kulturhuset to the left hosts tasting sessions.
Kulturhuset also houses
8 Klara Kyrka 9 Kulturhuset and Stadsteatern (City Theatre),
Klara Östra Kyrkogata. Map 1 C4. Stadsteatern whose main auditorium
Tel 08-411 73 24.  T-centralen. Sergels Torg 3. Map 1 C4. opened in 1990. This part of
@ 53. Open 10am–5pm Sun–Fri, Tel 08-506 202 00.  T-centralen. the building was formerly
5–7:30pm Sat. 5 8pm & 3:45pm @ 54, 57, 69. Open 9am–7:30pm occupied by Parliament while
Mon–Fri. - 7 Mon–Fri, 11am–5pm Sat & Sun. its chamber on Helgeands-
& some areas. - 0 = 7 holmen was being rebuilt
The convent of St Klara stood ∑ kulturhusetstadsteatern.se (see p67). The theatre was
on the site of the present designed by architects Lars
church and cemetery until The distinctive glass façade of Fahlsten and Per Ahrbom and
1527, when it was pulled Kulturhuset (Cultural Centre) contains six stages of varying
down on the orders of Gustav fronts the southern side of size and style under one roof.
Vasa. Later, his son Johan III Sergels Torg. The winning entry
commissioned a new church, in a Nordic architectural compe-
completed in 1590. tition, Kulturhuset has become a 0 Konserthuset
The church was ravaged by symbol of Swedish Modernism. Hötorget. Map 1 C4. Tel 08-786 02 00.
fire in 1751. Its reconstruction It was designed by Peter Celsing  Hötorget. @ 1, 56, 59. Ticket
was planned by two of the and opened in 1974. Office: Open 11am–6pm Mon–Fri,
period’s most outstanding Refurbished to meet the 11am–3pm Sat, and an hour before
architects, Carl Hårleman and needs of the new millennium, a concert. 8 - = 7
Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz. The the complex contains several ∑ konserthuset.se
pulpit was made in 1753 to galleries which mount regularly
Hårleman’s design, and changing exhibitions. In the A Nordic version of a Greek
J T Sergel created the angelic auditorium, a varied programme temple, Konserthuset (the
figures in the northern gallery. of music, dance, drama and Concert Hall) is a masterpiece
A pair of identical angels adorn lectures is presented. of the architect Ivar Tengbom
the chancel, based on the In the Children’s Room, (1878–1968) and is an
gypsum originals. youngsters can read books, outstanding example of the
In the 1880s, the 116 m
(380 ft) tower was added. The City’s Transformation
20th-century church artist,
Olle Hjortzberg, created the During the 20th century Stockholm’s population grew from 250,000
paintings in the vault in 1904. to more than 1.6 million. By the 1920s it was obvious that the old
heart of the city would not meet
the future needs of business, public
administration and the growth in
traffic. In 1951 a controversial
30-year ongoing programme to
transform the lower Norrmalm city
centre was launched. Slums on
335 of the 600 sites were pulled
down and 78 new buildings were
built. Two-thirds of the area’s
buildings were added during The first steps towards a new Hötorg
Interior of Klara Kyrka with decoration by this period. City, 1958
Olle Hjortzberg
For hotels and restaurants in this area see pp284–5 and pp294–5

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