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Volvo Photo Locations Part 29

Kuggen is a building on Lindholmen in Göteborg that was inaugurated in 2011 as The Chalmers’ new house for innovation and entrepreneurship. The building is built on five floors with a beautiful colourfull facade, designed by Wingårdh architects.

Kuggen has received awards for their innovative architecture. The building aims to create a creative environment with new meeting places for students, teachers, researchers and business. The building must also show how to develop construction materials and conserve energy.

Lindholmen Science Park is a science park dedicated to research and development in mobile communication, intelligent vehicles and transports systems, and modern media industry, located in Lindholmen Gothenburg, Sweden.

Chalmers University of Technology, the University of Gothenburg, and the IT University of Göteborg collaborate with high tech industries and the local community in different development projects. Currently 180 companies with 8,000 employees are active at Lindholmen, the biggest companies are Volvo Cars, Volvo Technology, Ericsson, IBM, Semcon, and SVT.

Campus Lindholmen has 8,000 university students, scientists, and teachers. Several gymnasiums are also located in the vicinity.

The main operators of Lindholmen Science Park are Gothenburg Municipality, Chalmers University of Technology, the University of Gothenburg, Volvo Group, Ericsson, Volvo Cars, Business Region Göteborg, TeliaSonera, Saab, and the Swedish Road Administration.

More information on www.chalmersfastigheter.se and Lindholmen Science Park

Volvo Photo Locations Part 28

Ostindiefararen Götheborg is a sailing replica of an 18th century Swedish East Indiaman. It is the world’s largest operational wooden sailing vessel. The original sank off Gothenburg, Sweden on 12 September 1745 while approaching its home harbour after returning from her third voyage to China. All sailors survived, but the ship was lost.

More information on www.soic.se, en.wikipedia.org and sv.wikipedia.org.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 27

The lighthouse at Musskären lies on Måholmsvägen in Arendal, a district on West Hisingen in Göteborg. In Arendal was formerly Arendal Shipyard (1963-1989) located. Nowadays it is a large industrial area, with many different companies, including headquarters and development department of Volvo Buses and production facilities for several of Volvo our subcontractors. This is also where the Volvo Museum is located.

More information at maps.google.com and Volvo Museum.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 26

Gustaf Adolf’s square is a located in central Gothenburg, Sweden. It was named Stortorget (the Big square) until 1854 when a statue was raised over the founding father of Gothenburg, king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. Surrounding the square you can find Rådhuset (1672), Börsen (1849) and Stadshuset (1749), and the Stora hamnkanalen.

The building pictured here at the Gustaf Adolfstorg is the Gothenburg city hall (Göteborgs rådhus), it was designed in the Beaux-Arts style. It was used primarily as a law court until 2010.

More information on www.visitsweden.com and go:

Volvo Photo Locations Part 25

“Ett litet hak” was a populair bar restaurant in Grev Turegatan in Stockholm, close to Stureplan.

Grev Turegatan is a street on Östermaln in central Stockholm. The street begins at Birger Jarlsgatan in the south, crosses among other Linnégatan and Karlavägen and ends at Valhallavägen in the north. The street got its present name in 1858.

The street is probably named after the state holder Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna’s son Ture Gabrielsson Oxenstierna.

In southern part of Grev Turegatan, which is now pedestrianized, is one of the entrances to Sturegallerian. Opposite this is Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademiens, in the former riding hall and entertainment palace Tattersall created by architects Gustaf Lindgren and Agi Lindegren 1895-1896. Earlier there were also two cinemas: Elite Cinema (closed 1958) and Ostermalms-Cinema (closed 1928). At the bottom of the Birger Jarlsgatan is the Eldhs fountain from in 1921.

A plaque on the house Grev Turegatan 35 is saying: “In a house on this place was born author Hjalmar Söderberg July 2, 1869.”

More information on www.visitstockholm.com

Volvo Photo Locations Part 24

Bollhusgränd (Swedish: “Ball House Alley”) is an alley in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. Named after Bollhuset, a historical theatre, it connects Slottsbacken to Köpmantorget, and as Baggensgatan extends the alley further south beyond Köpmangatan, together they form a parallel street to Österlånggatan and Själagårdsgatan.

More information on www.visitstockholm.com and en.wikipedia.org.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 23

Schantzska huset or The Schantzska house is a building on Stortorget 20 next to the Seyfridtzska house in Gamla stan, Stockholm, built in 1650 and restored in 1905. The house is named after the builder, Royal Secretary Johan Eberhard Schantz. The building has a gable of German-Dutch type, which is called “the Nordic Renaissance style”. The gable is a so-called staircase, decorated with decorative anchor ends and sculptural details. The limestone portal is decorated by Johan Wendelstam with lying Roman warriors, dating to 1650. Furnishings are from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Above the portal there is an inscription in German, it is from Psalms 37:5, Command the Lord deine Wege und hoffe auf ihn, er wirds wohl machen.

There is a myth about this house, which is about the number of stones around the windows. If you count, you see that the number is 94 and it is said that these 94 stones should remind the 94 people who were beheaded at Stockholm’s massacre in 1520; The stones’ connection to the executed, however, has no real historical foundation.

Stortorget is a small public square in Gamla Stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is the oldest square in Stockholm, the historical centre around which the medieval urban conglomeration gradually came into being.

Number 22, the green building on the left side of Kåkbrinken, is from 1758 but is standing on medieval walls.

The buildings on Number 18-20 were merged in the 17th century and subsequently named after Johan Eberhard Schantz, the secretary of Charles X Gustavus who also added the stepped gable and the grand portal on the left building. Parts of the interior still reflect the luxury which surrounded the royal secretary. The 82 white stones on Number 20, Ribbinska huset (“House of Ribbing”) or Schantzka huset (“House of Schantz”), are occasionally said to symbolize the heads decapitated by the Danish king in 1520. The house was, however, built no later than 1479, when it appears in historical records. The former of the names refers to the councillor Bo Ribbing who gave the property to Schantz in 1627, who added the stones the following year.

More information on sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schantzska_huset, en.wikipedia.org and www.visitstockholm.com.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 22

Statue of Baron Baltzar von Platen (1766 – 1829) in the Main Square, Motala, Östergötland, Sweden. Von Platen was the driving force behind the construction of the Göta Canal. He employed Thomas Telford in 1808 to survey the route, which he did in just three weeks.

Motala is a locality and the seat of Motala Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 29,823 inhabitants in 2010. It is the third largest city of Östergötland, following Linköping and Norrköping. Motala is situated on the eastern shore of Lake Vättern and is regarded as the main centre of both the Göta Canal and the surrounding lake region.

Main sights to visit when in Motala:

• The Motala Motor Museum contains cars and many hundreds of other period pieces, including motorbikes, racing cars, radios, record players, tools, and many, many, other objects from the first 70 or so years of the 20th century.
• The Swedish Broadcasting Museum with the twin radio towers.
• The Göta Canal with locks.
• The old Motala Works with museums and exhibitions in historical buildings.
• Motala Church, dating back to the 13th Century.
• Motala Museum at Charlottenborg Castle.
• Varamon beach.
• Baltzar Von Platen’s gravesight, located along the Göta Canal

More information on på gång i östergötaland, www.motala-motormuseum.se and www.gotakanal.se.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 21

Skånegatan is a street in central Gothenburg. The street, which extends from the Ullevi Stadium in the north to Korsvägen in the south, is the backbone of Evenemangsstråket and is lined with several well-known events and educational buildings like Ullevi Stadium, Scandinavium and Liseberg.

More information on sv.wikipedia.org

Volvo Photo Locations Part 20

Haga is a city district in Gothenburg, Sweden, renowned for its picturesque wooden houses, 19th century-atmosphere and cafés. Originally a working class suburb of the city with a rather bad reputation, it was gradually transformed into a popular visiting place for tourists and Gothenburgers. A major renovation of the area was made in the 1980s, houses were either renovated or torn down and replaced by post-modernistic replicas.

More information on cafehusaren.se, www.hagashopping.se and www.goteborg.com