We visited a wide variety of places today - a library, a design showroom, and a crematorium/cemetery, a bit of a change from relatively 'themed' days.

We first went and sketched at Stockholms Stadsbibliotek - the public library - designed by architect Gunnar Asplund and built in 1928. There was a fairly recent design contest for an addition to the library, which was apparently received one of the largest amounts of entries for any architectural design contest - well over a thousand entries; nothing has been built yet on the addition. The original library is highly detailed in the interior, and rather unique as a space - the main cone is very open, the shelves line the walls, leaving the interior open from first floor to the ceiling of the fourth floor.

We then headed to a design showroom in a renovated warehouse district of Stockholm to see a new 'space defining' material. These flexible fabric blocs connect to build a wall, suspended from the ceiling. They apparently come in all colors and textures. There was also an office/auditorium showroom next door that had pretty cool designer furniture as well.

Finally, we took the metro out to Skogskyrkogarden, a cemetery designed by two architects in the 20s. The crematorium, which we were there to see, had a very clean, modern design, and interesting built-in furniture in one of the waiting rooms - a bench that peeled out of the wood wall paneling. There was a very cool statue in the courtyard (which I couldn't stop taking pictures of). The cemetery is in the woods, very quiet and peaceful.

That finished out our day and we went back to the hotel.

(You're probably noticing that we are visiting a lot of cemeteries... yes, yes we are. But many of the cemeteries here are very laid out and have nice architecture in the incorporated buildings - chapels, funeral homes, etc.; bizarre as it is, we are here to see, specifically, the architecture of Europe, even if it does include things [very] out of the way of standard Europe trips.)