Walking around Stockholm it is impossible not to notice the richness of the city in the orange and yellows of the buildings, and the layers of styles through time. This creates such a wonderful richness, but what has fascinated me the most, is the Swedes well-crafted use of brick, and wood to create patterns, and graininess, almost like a woven textile. The use of pattern and texture can be found at the building, and city scale as well.
Picnic gazebo
Brick detail
Ceiling in the gardener's building at the Woodland Cemetery (Gunnar Asplund)
Brick and Birch at Sigurd Lewerentz's Church of St. Mark
Pavers outside City Hall
Nothing is random with Peter Celsing at St. Thomas Church
Circular cobblestones mark out the pedestrian dominated areas of the world's "first modern suburb" in Vällingby.
Shadows cast on the modern townhouses, built for the Stockholm exhibition in 1933.
Seating at the outdoor theater in SOFO (South of Folkungagatan)