Crystal vertical accent

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Crystal vertical accent i glas och stål

Kristallvertikalaccent (officially: Kristall, vertical accent i glas och stål ; English Crystal, vertical accent in glass and steel ) is a sculpture by the Swedish artist Edvin Öhrström .

The sculpture stands at Sergels Torg in downtown Stockholm . It is the result of a competition to complement the Sergels fountain and was inaugurated in 1974. It consists of a 37 meter high steel frame and is equipped with 80,000 prisms made of building glass from Lindshammars Glashütte and weighs around 130 tons. The lighting inside the tower was planned by Edvin Öhrström at the design stage, but was not installed until 1993. Four metal halide lamps with 1800 watts each and a color temperature of 5600 Kelvin serve as the light source .

The sculpture is commonly called Pinnen (The Stick) .

Web links

Commons : Kristallvertikalaccent  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Öhrström's works (English) on his official website. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ Kristall _ vertical accent on emporis.de. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ Svenska Ljuspriset 1997 - 1998 (Swedish) on ljusdesign.com. Retrieved August 8, 2015.

Coordinates: 59 ° 19 '57.3 "  N , 18 ° 3' 54.8"  E