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    Erik Gunnar Asplund (22 September 1885 – 20 October 1940) was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s...
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    library building in Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund, and one of the city's most notable structures. The name is today used...
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    because that was the year of the Stockholm Exhibition, designed mostly by Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, when a more purist Modernism was unveiled as a...
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  • Carl-Erik Asplund (1923–2024), Swedish speed skater Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940), Swedish architect Jennie Asplund (born 1979) and Johanna Asplund (born 1981)...
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    inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1994. Its design, by Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, reflects the development of architecture from...
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  • Andersson Per-Gunnar Andersson (born 1957), Swedish racing driver Per-Gunnar Andersson (born 1980), Swedish rally driver Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940), Swedish...
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  • Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1937–42) and was influenced early on by Gunnar Asplund and Alvar Aalto. Utzon was born in Copenhagen, the son of a naval architect...
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    with leading modernists in Europe, including Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund and many of the artists and architects associated with the Bauhaus,...
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    Sturegården is arguably the first completed project (1913) by architect Gunnar Asplund. It is a residential house located in the city of Nyköping, some 100 km...
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    (English: Woodland Chapel), designed in 1920 by the architect Erik Gunnar Asplund in the Skogskyrkogården (English: Woodland Cemetery) in Stockholm, Sweden...
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    (1931) is a Swedish modern architecture manifesto written by architects Gunnar Asplund, Wolter Gahn, Sven Markelius, Eskil Sundahl, Uno Åhrén, and art historian...
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    was finished in 1936 after the design and supervision by architect Gunnar Asplund. Media related to Göteborgs rådhus at Wikimedia Commons 57°42′25″N 11°57′56″E...
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    times are the Stockholm Public Library by Gunnar Asplund and the World Heritage Site Skogskyrkogården by Asplund and celebrated architect Sigurd Lewerentz...
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    simplified planar geometry bears comparison to similar explorations by Erik Gunnar Asplund and Jože Plečnik. The exterior is red Kalvola granite. The façade is...
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    University of Technology from 1964 to 1987. Hans Asplund was the son of the architect Gunnar Asplund and Gerda Sellman (born 1892). His father had distinguished...
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    Stockholm Exhibition, under the guidance of director and Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund. Enthusiastic architects collected their ideas and inspirations in the...
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    (Ragnar Östberg) Villa Lagerkrantz (Elis Benckert) Villa Snellman (Gunnar Asplund) Gamla Djursholm (Carl Westman) Prinsvillan (Gustaf Hermansson) Villa...
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    Bridge in morning dress, top hats and spats (1931) Torsten Nothin, Gunnar Asplund, Crown Prince Gustav Adolf, Prince Eugen and Yngve Larsson at the inauguration...
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    designed in the Nordic Classicism style (owing much to Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund, especially his Stockholm City Library) to the severely functionalist...
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  • architects who took up a very rigorous and stark form of Neo-classicism. Gunnar Asplund and Ivar Tengbom were two of the most well-known representatives during...
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    Stockholm Public Library, built 1928. Architect Gunnar Asplund....
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  • grand expansion of the Stockholm Public Library, one of architect Gunnar Asplund's most important works. Hanada defeated five other finalists from Denmark...
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    cylindrical main exhibition hall was inspired by an exhibition designed by Gunnar Asplund at the Stockholm city library and houses about 200 exhibits related...
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  • Scandinavian design of the time, evident in the work of among others Gunnar Asplund, though by that time a new, modernist architecture and design was emerging...
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  • Scandinavian Classicism and with some constructions by the Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund, who for some in the Stockholm Crematorium 1935–40 achieves a balance...
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  • Stockholm, Sweden. Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund. Snellman House in Djursholm, Sweden, is built. Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund. RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Ernest...
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  • 1932) 1883 – Frank George Woollard, English engineer (d. 1957) 1885 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, designed the Stockholm Public Library...
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    Scandinavian aristocratic residences; it was also used, for example, by Gunnar Asplund in his celebrated Snellman House of 1919. Although Aalto's clients had...
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    the Second World War, Utzon went to Stockholm to study the work of Gunnar Asplund. In the winter of 1943–44, there was an exhibition of modern American...
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  • Carl-Erik Asplund och Gunnar Ström". Swesports. 9 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024. Gunnar Ström at Olympics.com Gunnar Ström at Olympedia Gunnar Ström...
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