ABSTRACT
The Art and Industry building by architect Ahlberg, the Crematorium Building by architect Lewerentz, and the buildings for the workshop by Lewerentz and Wernstedt were not special for their size or ingenious effects. But because of a certain quality which one would like to believe is today's and tomorrow's willpower in one's developing architecture. The buildings in the exhibition area are even now being torn down and cleared away, but let them save one complex for memory and for enjoyment. The columned court with its impluvium and the straight long central staircase, up which one circulates with groups of rooms on both sides at increasingly higher levels, is a brilliant architectonic idea. The original idea with the rising terraces and the increasing gradient of the staircase augmented one's expectations. Up at the top on the magnificent plateau one is rewarded with wide views over the roofs like a fairytale city.
