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The low-rate world
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Architecture in Sweden
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STOCKHOLM
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But the design is dynamite
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Protests reveal NIMBYism mixed with indifference to the past
But the design is dynamite
FEW Swedes have been as influential as the bearded chemist and inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel. Yet his countrymen appear reluctant to promote him. And this is not because they think it outrageous that Leo Tolstoy and Mark Twain never won the Nobel Prize for literature, but Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson (who just happened to sit on the Nobel panel) did. Rather, it is more a question of indifference to history.
Take the kerfuffle over a plans for swanky new centre in Stockholm, the Nobel Centre or Nobelhuset. Since 2011 the city of Stockholm and the Nobel Foundation, the non-profit group which administers the prizes, have been discussing a sea-front edifice ...
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