Stockholm City Hall

Stockholm City Hall was designed by Ragnar Östberg and built between 1911‒23. In the past I regarded it as only a locally-important building, an example of a minor movement (National Romanticism), and furthermore I felt it was not particularly attractive.

Then I had a fever-dream. This is true: I awoke in the middle of the night with a fully-formed and detailed idea that the Stockholm City Hall has all the qualities to be rated as one of the world’s great buildings. In fact, those qualities are exceptionally strong. My biases were wrong. Let me illustrate:

And please discuss!