Bofills Båge (Swedish: "Bofill's Crescent") is a residential building on

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, at . The building was designed by the Spanish architect

Ricardo Bofill Ricardo Bofill Leví (; 5 December 1939 – 14 January 2022) was a Spanish architect from Barcelona. He founded Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura in 1963 and developed it into a leading international architectural and urban design practice. ...

and constructed between 1991 and 1992. The building complex is formed by the

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-shaped building with a diameter of 180 metres, along with a total of five smaller apartment buildings. The complex contains about 300 apartments, shops, offices and underground parking space. It forms part of a large urban redevelopment where the old southern railyard was converted into city blocks mainly with housing developments. The Crescent is flanked by Söder Torn, a residential highrise building designed by

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. In the architect's words, "The crescent façade is of simple, pure lines in accordance with traditional Nordic architecture."

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Ricardo Bofill: Bofills Båge
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bofills bage Residential buildings completed in 1992 1992 establishments in Sweden Residential buildings in Sweden Buildings and structures in Stockholm Crescents (architecture) Ricardo Bofill buildings Postmodern architecture 1990s establishments in Stockholm

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