Intendenturförrådet ( Swedish: ''Commissariat Warehouse'') is a building on the islet

Skeppsholmen Skeppsholmen is one of the islands of Stockholm. It is connected with Blasieholmen and Kastellholmen by bridges. It is accessible by foot from Kungsträdgården, past the Grand Hôtel and Nationalmuseum, by bus number 65, or by boat from Slusse ...

in central

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. Designed by the city architect

Johan Eberhard Carlberg Johan Eberhard Carlberg (24 February 1683 in Gothenburg, Sweden – 22 October 1773 in Stockholm) was a Swedish fortification officer and architect. He was Gothenburg's first city engineer, a position he held from 1717 until 1727. In 1727, he was ...

(1683-1773) in 1728 and completed in 1731, the warehouse was where the Crown kept grains and other goods collected as taxes paid in kind. By 1795 it was briefly used to store the royal trophies before it was rebuilt into an Army storage in 1795. It then escaped two attempts by the Navy to transform it into a barrack in 1829 and 1898, and is still used for storage. While the plain buttoned-up exterior with its small arched windows and simple verticals is striking contrast to the contemporary Grand-Baroque

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across the water, the warehouse remains unique in several ways: It is the only historical structure on Skeppsholmen never used by the Navy; the only remaining major building by Carlberg; and it is arguably the only building of its kind in Stockholm which remains unaltered since its construction. In 2006, the building was one of several potential locations identified for a proposed new Design Museum in Stockholm. , the plans for such a museum had not moved forward.Ett ”svenskt designmuseum” – på väg att skingras.
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