The New Stockholm Public Library will be an urban mediascape where landscape and building, interior and exterior, old and new merge into a single entity. Stockholm Public Library Designed by Gunnar Asplund and opened in 1928, the library is a prime example of Nordic Classicist architecture. Contribute. 48.1990. Stockholm, Sweden by Gunnar Asplund Change this . Add to collection; Watch this article; Add a new article; Related Architecture Nielson, “The Stockholm Library,” page 55 Stockholm Library Designs. In the proposed project, the platform of the Stockholm Public Library is extended in order to create the connection with the new building. Stockholm Library Sweden, Architecture Contest Images, Designs, News, Project, Building, Shortlist. Its simple geometric design, comprising a … Ink on paper. Unknown. Erik Gunnar Asplund. Stuart Knight and Kerstin Nilsson, page 16. Comments. Description Change this. Stockholm Public Library Change this. This project is an entry for the 2006 international open design competition for an expansion to Asplund's early modern masterpiece, the 1 of 4. However, since such projects did not appear in popular publication until early 1930:s, Asplund's design seems to be based on other sources. Register to join to conversation. The Stadsbiblioteket, the main branch of the Stockholm Public Library System, is one of the most distinctive buildings in the Swedish capital. The idea for the design is based on a suspended slab set upon two large transparent pilotis, which is quite literally translated into the finished proposal. Gift of Marshall Cogan and purchase. With its magnificent, unadorned exterior, Stockholm Public Library is the zenith of Nordic architecture in the 1920s, deriving inspiration from both neoclassical and classical architectural idiom. The expansion meets the library with a light structure to preserve the importance of Asplund’s building, while the main portion is placed in the opposite side of the site. 35 3/4 x 35 3/4" (90.8 x 90.8 cm). The proposal for the Stockholm Public Library by Bundi Pradono Architects at first glance one would not assume was a library at all with its creative design. 128 Texas Street San Francisco, CA 94107 +1 415 643 7773 contact@iwamotoscott.com Public Library, Stockholm, Sweden, Plan of first and second galleries. Accordingly, Stockholm Public Library has been interpreted as "revolutionary architecture" in the tradition of Ledoux and Boullée. Add this. Architecture and Design Nicolas Adams, Gunnar Asplund’s Gothenburg: The Transformation of Public Architecture in Interwar Europe, Penn University Park, PA: State University Press, 2014, page 112.