The famed rotunda of the Stockholm Public Library (Stadsbiblioteket) in Observatorielunden.

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Stadsbiblioteket


The main city library is just north of the city centre. Designed by architect Erik Gunnar Asplund and sporting a curvaceous, technicolor reading room, it’s the finest example of Stockholm’s 1920s neoclassicist style.


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