Lilla Bommen
Waterfront quarter crowned by a striped postmodern tower with a glazed rooftop lookout over the river.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Lilla Bommen on the Gothenburg waterfront looks at the red-and-white tower Ralph Erskine designed and Skanska built between nineteen eighty-six and nineteen eighty-nine. It is about the tower as a feat of engineering, and about what it took to stand a skyscraper on the soft clay of the Göta River bank. Along the way you'll hear why Erskine stacked his offices upward when Swedish offices sprawled low. Best heard on the quayside, with the whole tower in view.
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