Ålstensgatan
Coordinates: 59 ° 19 '12.4 " N , 17 ° 57' 16.8" E
Ålstensgatans radhusområde is a terraced housing estate in Bromma , Ålsten district in north-west Stockholm . The settlement was designed by architect Paul Hedqvist in 1932 and built between 1932 and 1933.
The houses in the terraced housing estate Ålstensgatan are also popularly known as the Per Albin houses , as the Prime Minister of Sweden Per Albin Hansson lived here until his death in 1946.
The houses are designed in the typical style of Swedish functionalism of the 1930s, all of them uniformly plastered white and provided with flat, cantilevered roofs. The 94 houses are arranged in two long rows of terraced houses in a north-south direction in the immediate vicinity of the Mälaren and shifted one below the other to create a zigzag pattern. This gave each house a protected entrance and a garden.
At first it was difficult to find buyers for the houses, but they were accepted soon after Per Albin Hansson moved in. After completion, a house cost around 3000 crowns , today (2008) around 4.5 million crowns (approx. 450,000 euros) are required for a row house on Ålstensgatan .
source
- Guide till Stockholm's architecture . Arkitektur Förlag AB, 2005
