General Information
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Office building |
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Location
| Location: |
Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden |
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| Coordinates: | 59° 21' 3.96" N 18° 2' 54.96" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| height | 76 m |
Excerpt from Wikipedia
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. 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.
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.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Wenner-Gren Center" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- Le "Wenner-Gren Center" à Stockholm (Suède). In: Acier = Stahl = Steel, v. 26 (July 1961), pp. 344-345.
- (1961): Le "Wenner-Gren Center" à Stockholm (Suède). In: Acier = Stahl = Steel, v. 26 (December 1961), pp. 539-545.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20027095 - Published on:
28/02/2007 - Last updated on:
16/05/2015
