Scandic Hotel Malmen, commonly called Hotell Malmen or Malmen for short, is a

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49–51 in

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. The building has been graded by the

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as having a particularly high cultural history value from the point of view of history, cultural history, the environment and the arts.

History

The hotel was built from 1948 to 1951 in place of the Stora Teatern which had been built in 1916 as one of Stockholm's largest film theatres. The hotel was one of the interesting commercial designs of the 1950s designed as

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architecture. The building was built by Kommunal Hotell AB. The building was designed by Georg Varhelyi and Carl-Axel Acking. Acking's design was classy but raw, for example conservation of space was done with narrow rooms and using couch beds as extra beds. The facade of the building has been renovated many times, but has kept its characteristic decorations with blue-gray details. On the corner towards Folkungagatan there was an entry to the

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on the

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already from the beginning, and there was an office of the Stockholm Savings Bank with a direct entrance from the street and the hotel lobby. The bank office was closed down in the 1980s. The

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was founded in a meeting at the hotel in February 1955. The hotel has changed owners many times and has been part of the hotel chain

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since 2009. The small hotel bar has a concert stage.Lilla Hotelbaren
Accessed on 28 May 2012.

Facts and figures

Hotel room at Hotel Scandic Malmen, Stockholm

* Number of floors: 10 * Number of rooms: 332 * Number of conference rooms: 4 * Maximum capacity of the largest conference room: 120 sitting places * Number of allergy-friendly rooms: 288 * Number of rooms with handicapped access: 4 * Number of pet-friendly rooms: 44 * Number of gyms: 1 * Barber's shop * Studio Canal 8 San Juan 1964 * TV Cameras

Interior pictures

File:Hotell Malmen, interiör, dec 2019d.jpg, The entry hall. File:Hotell Malmen, interiör, dec 2019a.jpg, The bar. File:Hotell Malmen, interiör, dec 2019c.jpg, The reception. File:Hotell Malmen, interiör, dec 2019e.jpg, The reception desk. File:Hotell Malmen, interiör, dec 2019f.jpg, The barber's shop.

References

Notes

Sources

* Bedoire, Fredric (2012)

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'' Stockholms byggnader: arkitektur och stadsbild'' (5).

: Nordstedt, p. 278.

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Entry at the Swedish Architecture Museum

External links

Official site
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