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Royal Palace sprint in Stockholm

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Royal Palace sprint in Stockholm

Royal Palace sprint in Stockholm

The snow has finally melted but they brought it back for the event. We swedes just can’t get enough of snow. Royal Palace sprint in Stockholm today. Part of the world cup and we get this prime view from our office window in Old town. Not bad?

Per

March 16, 2011

  • http://twitter.com/LolaAkinmade Lola A. Åkerström

    Haha. Thanks Kate!

  • Anonymous

    Yes, new buildings are often constructed at the expense of green areas.Hopefully this could be a good way of preserving them.

  • Pol – Croatia

    It is interesting that in my town 100 years ago lived about 40.000 people, which is not very far from nowadays 60.000. Since, in the meanwhile, lots of new buildings have been built i often wonder where and how all this people lived, even if some of them where even housed in very luxury flats and villas. However, on the other hand many probaly occupied some of the nowadays basements. I presume there are also many unused or less used buildings in the old town also, but with this real-estate and privatisation mania i guess many are looked rather as some sort of (private) capital property then public good. Many are also used by people coming from other parts of Croatia looking for a job and i also heard about some possible squaters. Some are used for economic or commercial activity, but are not always idealy suited, morover there is problem with parking and lkw approach.

    There are however some more public approach with some former military buildings and areas which have been reused for setlling of many non-profit organisations, different citizens or young interests group or health, sport and education institutions or initiatives. The proximity and common issues also very often brings different forms of cooperation between them. This is also a case of Green Istria and first urban garden i mentioned before. However, again this kind of places are not always ideal for its new purposes, even if sometimes people are in fact the main component.

    The nature consuming suburbanisation process is also very visible, along with new appartmanisation in the urban surroundings triggered very often by strange speculative actions rather then real needs, so some people have even several flats, while in the socialist time one couldn’t have more then one. … 

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for your reflections, Pol! I think it’s interesting how we have come to use more and more space for living. In tomorrow’s blog post I quote the Swedish architect Gert Wingårdh. He predicts that we will have far less space per person in our future homes. This is mainly for energy reasons, but maybe it could also matter a lot for green spaces and urban gardening.

    As you say, old buildings aren’t always suitable for new activities, but what you write about cross-group collaborations coming out of it sounds excellent.

  • singel

    Wow!! its a nice post.i love it.
    http://www.flirting.se/singel-i-goteborg/

  • Anonymous

    Haha, I think most us have a more or less chaotic sorting system at home… I myself keep everything in the same bag and sort it when I’m at the recycling station.
    Cooking oil can be a problem, clogging pipes and even causing leaks. I know there have been programs, for example like this one: http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressroom/graflunds/pressrelease/view/graflunds-foerst-i-soedertaelje-att-aatervinna-matolja-385107 where people have been given containers to recycle their cooking fat. In this example it was used for making biogas. One litre of oil going through the recycling system can drive a car for 10 kilometres.

  • Anonymous

    You have a very good point there, Kate: Most Swedish kitchens are so similar that you could find what you need even with your eyes closed! This is no coincindende – they were actually standardised in 1930:s after studying how people moved and worked in kitchens!: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svensk_k%C3%B6ksstandard

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