Wenner-Gren Center
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| Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
Construction started | 1959 |
Completed | 1961 |
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| Architects | Sune Lindström Alf Bydén |
Wenner-Gren Center is a tower and building complex in Vasastan, 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.[1] 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.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Wenner-Gren Foundations: Wenner-Gren Center[permanent dead link], accessed on July 16, 2009
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