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STOCKHOLM | Victoria Tower | 384 FT / 117 M | 33 FLOORS | T/O
Victoria Tower
117m 33fl Start 2009 Completion 2011 Quote:
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/5...iatower011.jpg http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/2...iatower021.jpg http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/9...iatower031.jpg http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/234...atower041e.jpg http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4...iatower051.jpg source=http://www.stockholm.se/-/Nyheter/By...rande-byggnad/ This one is a hotel tower about 10km from the Central Station, out here in my suburban burough of Kista. It'll be part of the new KistaMässan convention/exhibition center, but is a separate project from it even thought they'll be physically connected, it looks like. I guess they split things up so if one got held up the other could go ahead without waiting. here's a map of part of Kista, with other highrise-plans marked. The Victoria Tower is the light blue one on the right. http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/kista1.jpg Older stuff: Quote from the main investor: "Men bygget er dimensjonert slik at det kan bygges på 54 meter til…" my translation: "But the building is dimensioned so that it can be extended by another 54 meters..." So it might reach 174m in the future :) Old version had mostly hotel but also 10fl offices and a bar up top! Status of this not known in this latest version. A previous version was at 140m going to be Stockholm's tallest, and construction was supposed to start in 2008 but with the economic crash the plans are now on hold waiting for things to turn upwards. Considering the location and financial/political backing for it I'd be surprised if it, or a close variant, didn't get built eventually. http://www.dn.se/polopoly_fs/1.83031...e/76628577.jpg New newslinks: (in Scandinavian) http://www.dn.se/sthlm/spektakulart-...kista-1.830256 http://www.h-a.no/Nyheter/Nyheter/ta...ModuleId=44335 Even older again, in Scandianvian. Source/Newslink: http://www.dn.se/sthlm/spektakulart-...kista-1.830256 Quote:
For reference, an article from a newssite: Quote:
http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/pl...taScandic1.jpg http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/pl...taScandic2.jpg http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/pl...taScandic3.jpg Older pics: some model pics: http://www.kista.com/gallery2/galler...2/modellen.jpg http://www.kista.com/gallery2/galler.../modellen2.jpg and some of my pics from earlier this fall on the right side of the street I'm on and on the other side of the bridge = the site http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/20071018d.jpg both these are going to give way to Kistamässan (convention center), and demolition is under way... http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/20071018e.jpg from the opposite corner of the site http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/20071018i.jpg http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/20071018g.jpg foreground Kistamässan site which blends into the hotel site, building in back is across Kistagången (street the hotel will front on) http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/20071018h.jpg That pile of rubble is where the hotel will go. Already there's a busstop right there :D http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/20071018f.jpg |
And a bigger rendering (new post so the text don't go outside yous guys screens)
http://www.kista.com/gallery2/galler...stam__ssan.JPG www.kista.com |
Looks pretty nice. Very IKEA looking. ;)
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Great news for Stockholm.
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Not so sure I like the design myself. But it's not so ugly I oppose it in any way :P
A map of the east side of Kista, where all the development is happening (west side being my hood, post-commieblock concrete towers). http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/kista1.jpg blue = the Kista Mässan Hotel site (41s) this thread, the only one that's worthy of a thread at this point. green = taller Kista Terrass tower (?30+s?) orange = shorter Kista Terrass tower (17s) yellow = KRT site, mentioned for a newer project without any much detail (2x30s?) magenta = Kista Port, old project with no news for years (2x20s) |
really like it
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very cool building. fits sweeden very well.
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This is what the site looks like today:
http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/20071018h.jpg http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/20071018f.jpg and a rendering adjusted for height by SSC S&B:er khaan (since the city wanted it taller and the renderings are of the shorter version) http://gardebring.com/shared/skyscrapercity/kista.jpg one thing that wasn't so easy to change tho is the LRT. That's not an LRT, that's one of Stockholm's new commuter trains, the LRTs are shorter and much lower. |
Congratulation's Stockholm. :tup:
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Nice looking building, I wish we built quality scrapers here too. But we don't. :(
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Slick looking tower. :tup:
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Acording to a short (not that informative) article on high-rises proposed in Stockholm this tower is up for aproval by the city "within a few days". So that's good :)
Also they've got a web-vote thingy next to the article and almost 70% think high-rises do NOt destoy the aesthetics of the city. So the nimby's death-grip on planning for the Inner City here is slipping. |
Is it just high-rises or do nimby's hate all development?Everthing thing seems to take forever to build in Stockholm.
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The nimbys are pretty much against anything. Even when something has to be torn down or it'll fall down, they want something very similar built to replace it - even when it's a friggin' eye-sore. /I'm talking about Slussen
Sweden also has a very open appeals-process. One man (with a little financial help) was able to hold up a major Stockholm inrastructure plan for ten years: http://www.vv.se/filer/28066/17_Stoc...ng_NL_stor.jpg Norra Länken, another 15-20% of the freeway loop around the Inner City, all of it in tunnels. the reason he appeald? the construction tunnels would hurt the water-flow to a small group of trees in a park. |
A very nice looking design that works well with its surroundings. But what's with the woman with the long black hair and sunglasses in the right foreground? She looks really pissed off. :haha:
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^^^ Probably didn't want her picture taken.
This is a very interesting looking design. It's quite original and for that I'll give it kudos. I'm not terribly crazy about the design, but I think it'll be a nice addition. :tup: |
Congratulations Swede! The 2 tallest buildings in Stockholm in your area...let's hope it will get built. I also like the design, it looks perfect with the lightrail in front of the building. What happened to Kista Residence, is there still a chance it will get built? Kista could be the Stockholm's La Defense in the future.
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ResidenceTower is dead :( but the site is up for getting soemthing at least a bit tall on it, last I heard (a few months ago) the word was two 30s towers, but that did seem at bit much, probably a missunderstanding somewhere.
But yeah, Kista is looking more and more like Stokholm's La Defense :D btw - din sig e lite för stor, regeln är 5 rader precis som på SSC. |
Wow, this tower looks kewl. Very bold design. Nice...
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Here's a direct link to the project's page on the City construction office (SBK)'s site http://planer.sbk.stockholm.se/SBKPl...w____3804.aspx
It is open for public views until 2008.01.16. You can even submit your views on-line by using a form that is linked from the above page. I did, and said the only critique I had was no more wings and that it wasn't taller. :) Here's three pics I got from a pdf on that page :) http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/pl...taScandic1.jpg http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/pl...taScandic2.jpg http://hem.bredband.net/torkel120/pl...taScandic3.jpg www.stockholm.se Also updated first post with the new pics and new height figure. |
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