“Kungstornen”

”Kungstornen” are twin towers, built on either side of Kungsgatan (Kings road) on Norrmalm in Stockholm. The architect of the Northern Tower in 1924 was Sven Wallander. He undertook a study trip to New York in 1920, and the tower gained unmistakable elements of the high-rise architecture of the time in lower (south) Manhattan with its division into plinth, middle section and crest. Artists Eric Grate and Carl-Oscar Avén designed the sculptural elements of the building. Both towers are 60 meters high and have 17 floors. They were Sweden's tallest skyscrapers at the time. The two towers became an important symbol of the newly built city street and both towers' crest had lighting and light arts that could be seen at night from large parts of the city. In 1925, the north tower was followed by the architecturally well-coordinated South Kungstornet (Kungsgatan 33) designed by Ivar Callmander and adorned with four tower figures from Roman mythology (Fortuna, Mercury, Neptune and Victoria) created by the sculptor Aron Sandberg. The developer was L.M. Ericsson's real estate company and until 1940 the company had its representative headquarters here. If you look closely at the tower figures, you can see that one of them (Victoria) is carrying a gilded Ericsson phone with the letters ”LME”. Wikipedia.