Stockholm City Hall

14 September 2017

After our lunch at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology ,we headed towards the City Hall. It is the building of the  Municipal Council for the city of Stockholm in Sweden. Stockholm's municipal council meets in 'Radssalen' the council chamber , where anyone can walk in to attend the meeting.

The City Hall is a stately, regal structure made of eight million bricks. It is one of the Sweden's leading examples of National Romanticism in architecture. It was designed by Swedish architect Ragnar Östberg. The great Noble Banquet is held in the Blue Hall which ironically is not blue as Rognar fell in love with those huge red bricked walls and decided to not to paint them blue as it was planned before.

After the dinner in the Blue Hall, Noble Prize Laureates, Royalty, and guests dance in the Golden Hall with it's 18 million gold mosaic tiles. It received it's name when the walls were decorated by mosaics created by the artist Einar Firseth on a proposal by Rangar Östberg. The City Hall is beautiful in it's own way.

The City Hall Tower

The Blue Hall 

The Blue Hall