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General Information

Beginning of works: 1959
Completion: 1961
Status: in use

Project Type

Function / usage: Office building

Location

Location: , ,
Coordinates: 59° 21' 3.96" N    18° 2' 54.96" E
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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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  • About this
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  • Structure-ID
    20027095
  • Published on:
    28/02/2007
  • Last updated on:
    16/05/2015
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