The Stockholm City Hall

The Stockholm city hall is the place where the Nobel Prize banquet is held every year and is also one of Stockholm’s major attractions. Ragnar Ostberg was the architect who created the Rodhuset in Stockholm, but in order to get the job he had to win a contest for the design of the city hall. One of his competitors Carl Westman was asked instead to create the Stockholm courthouse. While the city hall was designed by Ostberg, he also used some of the elements of Westman’s design for the huset which included the tower. Ostberg was never really satisfied with what he was doing so he constantly was changing his plans and ideas along the way. For example, the room in which the Nobel prize banquet is held is called the blue hall, but Ostberg abandoned the idea of the blue glazed tiles for that room along with the idea of painting the brick portion blue.
-Nick Kruger june 8th, 2009