This is a fun building, at least for me as a photographer. It is known by a few different names. Dragspelet is one of them. That means Accordion. It was built back in 1962. The architect was Henning Orlando. It has just over 200 apartments. It is located up on a hill at Marieberg on Kungsholmen. One of the first people to move in was the then Prime Minister Tage Erlander so that is why the building became known as The Erlander building, or Erlanderhuset in Swedish. He lived in a five-room apartment on the seventh floor. It was shaped like this to give as many people as possible a good view from their apartments and balconies
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We have two here in Belgrade, Serbia, known as 'televisions' because they have large,square, protrudiing window resembling old-time TVs. No flat screen buildings, haha. Here's a site: https://mapio.net/pic/p-46820536/
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It does have a high Hong Kong content.
I have never seen anything like this building before... but accordion suits the scene perfectly.
What an interesting looking building. Definitely have lots of neighbors.
I've never seen such a building as this one. Interesting!
Accordion is a perfect name for it.
I'm not a fan of bulky buildings but I like this photo.
Quite unusual.
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