Earlier I posted an illustration of this gas holder as I find the architecture gorgeous, I wanted to share a photo but I wanted it to be historical as I am used to posting in the historicalphoto community as well.
I finally found it in one source I often forget in favor of Digital Museum, Stockholmskällan.
The photographer of this photo is unknown, but it is owned by the Stockholm city archives, and licensed as CC-BY.
The photo itself shows the gas works in Värtahamnen in the 1910s.
Right front and center we have the beautiful gas holder I spoke about in my other post, designed by one of my favourite architectures, Ferdinand Boberg.
There is another brick gas holder in the same style, now that the gas work area is being redeveloped, one is converted into a hotel, the other is converted into a concert hall.
Honestly amazing to see the actual thing. I saw the illustration and thought “did they actually build it like that?”
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, here is an article with pictures of the second gas holder in the modern times, and during renovations.
I can’t post is separately here as I don’t know the copyright status of the images:
https://vaxer.stockholm/projekt/hjorthagen/gasklocka-2/
There is a close up photo of the decoration on top, so you can see the work that went into it.
My earlier source also have a photo showing the wooden scaffolding that was used to build these amazing structures, taken at the time of construction.