home

[ Content | Sidebar ]

Archives for weblog

Hotellet 13 on Strandgatan in Visby on Gotland 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 214 Strandgatan is a street in the old centre of Visby, the main city on the island Gotland in Sweden. The building in the photo is Hotellet 13 on Strandgatan 6 and connects the old Clarion Hotel Wisby part with the former Länsstyrelsens building. Owner is Clarion Hotel Wisby. In 2014, […]

Edifici Tànger professorat UPF on Carrer de Tànger in Barcelona – ES 🇪🇸

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 202 The building on the photo is located on Carrer de Tànger in Barcelona. In this Tanger Building of the Campus de la Comunicació part of the Network Technologies and Strategies research group (NeTS) of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, which is part of the Department of Information and […]

Söder Mälarstrand in Stockholm 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 211 Söder mälarstrand is a coastal street with berth on Södermalm in Stockholm. It stretches along the Riddarfjärden from Pålsundet in the west to Centralbron in the east and is about 2,200 meters long. Along the street there are some interesting sites like Heleneborg, industrial building Münchenbryggeriet and office building Mariahissen. […]

Älghagsstigen in Hässelby in Stockholm 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 206 On Älghagsstigen in Hässelby, a suburb of Stockholm, an social experiment took place in 2011. A family was aksed to live 6 months in a cutting edge house, with a cutting edge car, and cutting edge technologies to monitor their every move. The goal of the project was to investigate […]

Quai Rouvenaz in Montreux – CH

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 188 On the Quai de la Rouvenaz in Montreux, Switserland, a statue of Freddie Mercury, the singer of the rock band Queen, can be found. Freddie settled in Montreux where the group had bought Mountain Recording Studio and where he learnt to appreciate the peace and quiet. He recorded his […]

Granola Restaurant on Værnedamsvej in Copenhagen – DK 🇩🇰

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 185 Værnedamsvej 5 in a street in Frederiksberg Copenhagen in Denmark. Kid-friendly, cozy, relaxed and Frenchy. Værnedamsvej is a small, busy shopping street situated between Vesterbro and Frederiksberg. The street is known for its French atmosphere and to many Copenhageners it is viewed as Copenhagen’s Paris. Here, you will find […]

Villa U on Nordre Strandvej in Ålsgårde – DK 🇩🇰

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 182 This wonderfull villa with the name Villa U or Villa Form can be found at Nordre Strandvej 180A in Ålsgårde, just north of Helsingør, Danmark. This house was built in 2010. This is just the entrance to the 384-square-meter villa. Lars Gitz Architects, a Scandinavian global architecture firm designed […]

Kvarnbergsgatan in Göteborg 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 186 Kvarnbergsgatan is a street in the district Nordstaden in Göteborg. It is about 70 meters long, and range from Torggatan to Övre Spannmålsgatan. The street connects with Östra Hamngatan through Klädpressaregatan. The street was named in 1671, after windmills were erected on the Kvarnberget until the 1730s. Earlier names of […]

Konserthuset at Götaplatsen in Göteborg 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 185 Konserthuset in Göteborg, or Gothenburg Concert Hall is a concert hall located at Götaplatsen in Göteborg, Sweden, which was built in 1935. The architect for the facility was Nils Einar Ericsson, a major advocate of Functionalism. However, the Concert Hall has a Neo-Classical exterior look, due to the surrounding area […]

Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris – F 🇫🇷

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 171 The pont de Bir-Hakeim, formerly the pont de Passy, is a bridge that crosses the Seine River in Paris, France. It connects the city’s 15th and 16th arrondissements, and passes through the île aux Cygnes. The bridge, made of steel, is the second to have stood at the site. […]