Archive for the ‘Stockholm’ Category

Tallest Nordic Hotel: Scandic Victoria Tower

November 24th, 2012 at 11:26 pm » Comments (2)

In Kista Science City, Stockholm, Sweden, this unusual skyscraper tower, named after the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria, completed 2011. Scandic Hotel chain is renting Stockholm’s tallest building, also the tallest hotel in Scandinavia. Elected as the hotel building of the year 2012 at the World Architecture Festival i Singapore. The Scandic Victoria Tower Hotel is [...]

Scary Skyscraper: Glass Balcony Height Fright

November 12th, 2012 at 10:09 pm » Comments (1)

Generally in Stockholm, it has not been many skyscrapers built yet despite it being a capital city. Some high houses exists though and one of them is what looks like a rather modest apartment skyscraper of 16 stories only, situated in Bromma, the outburst of Stockholm city. The building has been nominated to Stockholm Building [...]

Europe 7500 km roadtrip start!

July 26th, 2012 at 3:00 pm » Comments (0)

Our 7500 km roadtrip from Sweden through Europe has already started when you read this pre-scheduled post. We’re driving our own car from Stockholm, Sweden to Provence, France and back again another way through other European countries. Our first leg of the trip are quite long, about 790 km, click to see it in Google [...]