Former telecommunications buildings

The facility was built in several stages between 1962 and 1972 after drawings by Bengt Hidemark and Gösta Danielson. The Building Board and the Telestyrelsen were property developers. The buildings in Larsboda (finished in 1969) were awarded the Kasper Salin Prize. The older facility at Färnebogatan 81-87 in Farsta was built between 1962 and 1966. It consists four eight to nine storeys high, slender houses, set perpendicular to Nynäsvägen(road). The facades are characterized by long window straps with windows of natural loxed aluminum. The stairwells are in the gable towers. The previously grey-painted buildings are now coloured in each colour: red, green, yellow and blue (from south to north). The tall buildings are surrounded by some lower two-storey buildings. At the far north, the telecommunications tower's concrete cylinder gives a marked accent. The 50-metre tower with the company logo, originally erected for radio link connections, is a landmark in Farsta with surroundings. At Mårbackagatan 11-17 in Larsboda, about 400 meters south of the older facility was built between 1966 and 1969 premises for an extension of the then Televerket's operations. This time, the architects Hidemark and Danielson took a completely different approach. Instead of some high record houses, they chose to carry out the buildings low and between three and four storeys high. Some of the houses are displaced in relation to each other, while closing around individually designed farms and street rooms. In essence, prefabricated concrete elements were used that were mounted on the site. The system admitted a gradual expansion of the facility. According to the Cultural History classification of the City Museum, the area is K-marked blue. //Wikipedia