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Malmskillnadsgatan
Malmskillnadsgatan (Swedish: "The Ridge Dividing Street") is a 650-metre long street in central Stockholm, Sweden. It stretches northward from the Brunkebergstorg square over Hamngatan; crosses Mäster Samuelsgatan and Oxtorgsgatan; passes over the bridge Malmskillnad Bridge passing over Kungsgatan; crosses Brunnsgatan and David Bagares gata; and finally ends at Johannes plan near Döbelnsgatan. In today's Sweden, at the end of the last ice age, the retiring ice sheet left behind several ridges filled with sand and rounded gravel, ridges called ''malmar'' (sing. ''malm'') in Swedish. In the central-northern part of Stockholm, the Brunkebergsåsen, divided the Norrmalm district in an eastern and western part, Östermalm and Västermalm, and Malmskillnadsgatan is a street passing along the top of the ridge. First appearing in documents from the 17th century, the name ''Malmskillnaden'' arguably designated some sort of road passing over the Ridge of Brunkeberg, an eventu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malmskillnadsgatan 2010
Malmskillnadsgatan (Swedish language, Swedish: "The Ridge Dividing Street") is a 650-metre long street in central Stockholm, Sweden. It stretches northward from the Brunkebergstorg square over Hamngatan; crosses Mäster Samuelsgatan and Oxtorgsgatan; passes over the bridge Malmskillnad Bridge passing over Kungsgatan, Stockholm, Kungsgatan; crosses Brunnsgatan and David Bagares gata; and finally ends at Johannes plan near Döbelnsgatan. In today's Sweden, at the end of the last ice age, the retiring ice sheet left behind several ridges filled with sand and rounded gravel, ridges called ''malmar'' (sing. ''malm'') in Swedish. In the central-northern part of Stockholm, the Brunkebergsåsen, divided the Norrmalm district in an eastern and western part, Östermalm and Västermalm, and Malmskillnadsgatan is a street passing along the top of the ridge. First appearing in documents from the 17th century, the name ''Malmskillnaden'' arguably designated some sort of road passing over th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malmskillnad Bridge
Malmskillnadsbron (''The Malmskillnad Bridge'') is an arch bridge in central Stockholm, Sweden. It takes the street Malmskillnadsgatan over Kungsgatan, Stockholm, Kungsgatan flanked on its east side by two Art Deco towers called Kungstornen. For an explanation of ''Malmskillnad'', see Malmskillnadsgatan. Built in connection with the excavation of Brunkebergsåsen for Kungsgatan, Malmskillnadsbron was inaugurated in 1911, one year after the completion of the parallel bridge taking Regeringsgatan over Kungsgatan, circumstantially called ''Regeringsgatans viadukt över Kungsgatan'', "The Bridge of Regeringsgatan over Kungsgatan", and, more popularly, ''Regeringsgatans bro'', Bridge of Regeringsgatan. The bridge is a reinforced concrete three-hinged arch bridge An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Södra Kungstornet
Kungstornen (''King's Towers'') are twin tower skyscrapers, individually named Norra Kungstornet (''Northern King's Tower'') and Södra Kungstornet (''Southern King's Tower''), in Norrmalm, Stockholm. The 16-storey Norra Kungstornet is and was built between 1919 and 1924; and the taller 17-storey, Södra Kungstornet was built between 1924 and 1925. Together, they are considered the first modern skyscrapers in Europe. The tower pair marks a slight bend in the street, one block east of Hötorget, where it is crossed by the Malmskillnadsbron, a bridge in the course of Malmskillnadsgatan, to which they are adjacent. They are and of similar, but not identical, exterior design. Their construction was inspired by American models, particularly the architecture of Lower Manhattan of the time. The north tower was designed by Sven Wallander who also authored the 1919 master plan for Kungsgatan; the southern tower was designed by Ivar Callmander Ivar (Old Norse ''Ívarr'') is a Sca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norra Kungstornet
Kungstornen (''King's Towers'') are twin tower skyscrapers, individually named Norra Kungstornet (''Northern King's Tower'') and Södra Kungstornet (''Southern King's Tower''), in Norrmalm, Stockholm. The 16-storey Norra Kungstornet is and was built between 1919 and 1924; and the taller 17-storey, Södra Kungstornet was built between 1924 and 1925. Together, they are considered the first modern skyscrapers in Europe. The tower pair marks a slight bend in the street, one block east of Hötorget, where it is crossed by the Malmskillnadsbron, a bridge in the course of Malmskillnadsgatan, to which they are adjacent. They are and of similar, but not identical, exterior design. Their construction was inspired by American models, particularly the architecture of Lower Manhattan of the time. The north tower was designed by Sven Wallander who also authored the 1919 master plan for Kungsgatan; the southern tower was designed by Ivar Callmander Ivar (Old Norse ''Ívarr'') is a Sca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kungstornen
Kungstornen (''King's Towers'') are twin tower skyscrapers, individually named Norra Kungstornet (''Northern King's Tower'') and Södra Kungstornet (''Southern King's Tower''), in Norrmalm, Stockholm. The 16-storey Norra Kungstornet is and was built between 1919 and 1924; and the taller 17-storey, Södra Kungstornet was built between 1924 and 1925. Together, they are considered the first modern skyscrapers in Europe. The tower pair marks a slight bend in the street, one block east of Hötorget, where it is crossed by the Malmskillnadsbron, a bridge in the course of Malmskillnadsgatan, to which they are adjacent. They are and of similar, but not identical, exterior design. Their construction was inspired by American models, particularly the architecture of Lower Manhattan of the time. The north tower was designed by Sven Wallander who also authored the 1919 master plan for Kungsgatan; the southern tower was designed by Ivar Callmander Ivar (Old Norse ''Ívarr'') is a S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kungsgatan, Stockholm
Kungsgatan (Swedish for "King's Street") is a street address in central Stockholm. It was formerly a red-light district and is currently a busy shopping street. At its western end it is connected to Kungsholmen by Kungsbron bridge, from where it stretches east to Stureplan public square. It is intercepted by the streets Vasagatan, Drottninggatan, and Sveavägen. Two streets pass over it: Malmskillnadsgatan on Malmskillnadsbron bridge and Regeringsgatan on the Bridge of Regeringsgatan. Kungsgatan passes by Hötorget public square where Stockholm Concert Hall is located. It is also flanked by two buildings, the ''Kungstorn'' (King's towers), each about 60 metres tall. Kungsgatan was dug through the Brunkebergsåsen esker (a natural ridge) in the early 20th century and inaugurated in 1911. Today it is a lively shopping street flanked by cinemas, cafés, and other shopping facilities. Hötorget station, on the Green line of the Stockholm metro, is located at the intersect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sand
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural class of soil or soil type; i.e., a soil containing more than 85 percent sand-sized particles by mass. The composition of sand varies, depending on the local rock sources and conditions, but the most common constituent of sand in inland continental settings and non-tropical coastal settings is silica (silicon dioxide, or SiO2), usually in the form of quartz. Calcium carbonate is the second most common type of sand, for example, aragonite, which has mostly been created, over the past 500million years, by various forms of life, like coral and shellfish. For example, it is the primary form of sand apparent in areas where reefs have dominated the ecosystem for millions of years like the Caribbean. Somewhat more rarely, sand may be composed of calciu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice Sheet
In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than . The only current ice sheets are in Antarctica and Greenland; during the Last Glacial Period at Last Glacial Maximum, the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered much of North America, the Weichselian ice sheet covered Northern Europe and the Patagonian Ice Sheet covered southern South America. Ice sheets are bigger than ice shelves or alpine glaciers. Masses of ice covering less than 50,000 km2 are termed an ice cap. An ice cap will typically feed a series of glaciers around its periphery. Although the surface is cold, the base of an ice sheet is generally warmer due to geothermal heat. In places, melting occurs and the melt-water lubricates the ice sheet so that it flows more rapidly. This process produces fast-flowing channels in the ice sheet — these are ice streams. The present-day polar ice sheets are relatively young in geol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gravel
Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments. Gravel occurs naturally throughout the world as a result of sedimentary and erosive geologic processes; it is also produced in large quantities commercially as crushed stone. Gravel is classified by particle size range and includes size classes from granule- to boulder-sized fragments. In the Udden-Wentworth scale gravel is categorized into granular gravel () and pebble gravel (). ISO 14688 grades gravels as fine, medium, and coarse, with ranges 2–6.3 mm to 20–63 mm. One cubic metre of gravel typically weighs about 1,800 kg (or a cubic yard weighs about 3,000 lb). Gravel is an important commercial product, with a number of applications. Almost half of all gravel production is used as aggregate for concrete. Much of the rest is used for road construction, either in the road base or as the road surface (with or without asphalt or other binders.) Naturally occurring porous gravel deposits have a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice Age
An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages and greenhouse periods, during which there are no glaciers on the planet. Earth is currently in the Quaternary glaciation. Individual pulses of cold climate within an ice age are termed ''glacial periods'' (or, alternatively, ''glacials, glaciations, glacial stages, stadials, stades'', or colloquially, ''ice ages''), and intermittent warm periods within an ice age are called '' interglacials'' or ''interstadials''. In glaciology, ''ice age'' implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in both northern and southern hemispheres. By this definition, Earth is currently in an interglacial period—the Holocene. The amount of anthropogenic greenhouse gases emitted into Earth's oceans and atmosphere is predicted to prevent the next glacial period for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunkebergsåsen
Brunkebergsåsen was an esker that once reached over much of Stockholm's Norrmalm district. Geologically, it is a part of the much larger Stockholmsåsen. It formed a considerable obstacle to traffic, effectively dividing Norrmalm into a western and an eastern part. Consequently, most of it has been dug away over the centuries to make room for the development of that district. The pedestrian tunnel Brunkebergstunneln and, since the 1910s, the eastern part of Kungsgatan cut through Brunkebergsåsen's southern part. Conspicuous remnants of the esker can be seen in the vicinity of Johannes kyrka, at Observatorielunden, and Vanadislunden. See also *Battle of Brunkeberg Further reading Essay, with several maps, on the city's development in Stockholm City Museum The Stockholm City Museum ( sv, Stadsmuseet i Stockholm) is a museum documenting, preserving and exhibiting the history of Stockholm. The museum is housed in Södra Stadshuset at Slussen on Södermalm. The building was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
