Quote by Henning Mankell

“On the other side, apartment blocks—intact except for the fronts, which had been completely blown off, revealing the rooms and furniture within—stood like giant…

— Rhidian Brook

“village of stores, homes, and other buildings where”

— Jana Riess

It's a small city where I have a lot of time to think. The orchestra and I have had a chance to connect very…

— Gustavo Dudamel

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

— Janine di Giovanni

“Sometimes 'Stockholm' can actually be a compliment: a dream of somewhere bigger, where we can become someone else. Something that we long for but…

— Fredrik Backman

“Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, swelling here, shrinking there, like some low…

— Noah Lukeman

“It is only now and then in some very remote and backward agricultural district that an antiquarian may still discover a square house.”

— Edwin A. Abbott

“viaduct, its brick arches filled in by storerooms. A”

— Ken Follett

“Is there a Swedish Modernism?”

— Cecilia Widenheim

“Someone, he added, ought to draw up a catalogue of types of buildings listed in order of size, and it would be immediately obvious…

— W.G. Sebald

“The house looked on to other tenement-like structures, experiments in architectural insignificance, that intruded upon a central concentration of buildings, commanding and antiquated, laid…

— Anthony Powell

“Any town considered a potential boomtown had encampments whose tents fluttered in the breeze like a squad of sailboats coming to port. People flocked…

— Maurice Broaddus