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May 11, 2009

Vintage Hotels: Gyllene Uttern



Gyllene Uttern - "The Golden Otter" - in southern Sweden was originally built as a roadside café in 1932 but the castle-like building was added within a few years. It is now mainly a hotel and restaurant. I haven't passed it in many years but it is supposed to look very much the same as when the German Nazi flag was up for German visitors (4th image).

Gyllene Uttern (Swedish Wikipedia)

Wild Strawberries
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Thanks to Johnny and SVT for image #1
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February 22, 2006

Architecture: ...and look what they turned down!



This is actually what the same architect (as the one below) , Gert Wingårdh, first came up with! But the the politicians in Stockholm are just such a bunch of cowards! They thought it was just too spaced out and turned it down! So they chose to erect a building that is plain, blends in and will probably simply disappear... (sigh!)