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Södra Station is two things at once: a commuter-rail stop cut into the southern edge of Södermalm, and the residential district — officially Södra Stationsområdet — that grew up around it from the 1990s onward. The area sits on land that was once a railway marshalling yard, and today it is one of Stockholm’s clearer … Read more

Hammarby Sjöstad is a district built from the mid-1990s onward on former industrial and harbour land south of Södermalm, around a lake called Hammarby Sjö. It was built to prove that a dense new city district could run its waste, water, heating and energy as one linked system, cutting its environmental impact well below that … Read more

Gärdet is a district in northeastern Stockholm, part of the Östermalm borough, built around a large open grass field once used by the military and now a public park. It also names a residential area of 1930s functionalist apartment blocks and a Red Line metro station of the same name. Where is Gärdet, and what … Read more

Långholmen is a small island in central Stockholm, sitting in Riddarfjärden between Kungsholmen and Södermalm. For roughly 250 years it was one of the city’s main sites of confinement — first a workhouse, then a prison that operated until 1975. Today the same buildings hold a hostel, a museum, and a nature reserve with a … Read more

Skeppsholmen is a small island in central Stockholm that once served as a base for the Swedish Navy and now holds two of the city’s national museums, a preserved sailing ship, and a former naval church. It sits between Blasieholmen and Djurgården, reached on foot by a single bridge, and carries almost no through traffic. … Read more

Djurgården is an island in central Stockholm that has belonged to the Swedish Crown since the sixteenth century and is protected today as parkland under national law. That legal status — rather than zoning decisions made recently — is why it was never built up like the districts around it, and why it now holds … Read more

Vasastan is a residential district immediately north of central Stockholm, built mostly between the 1880s and 1920s on a strict grid of streets. It sits on the mainland — not an island, unlike much of central Stockholm — between Norrmalm to the south and the Karolinska hospital area and Norra Djurgården to the north, and … Read more

Kungsholmen is an island and administrative district in central Stockholm, sitting west of Norrmalm and Vasastan, north of Riddarfjärden. It is mostly residential — apartment blocks rather than monuments — but its eastern tip carries Stockholm City Hall, and the whole island is served by its own stretch of the metro’s blue line. Where does … Read more

Norrmalm is the district that forms the commercial and administrative core of central Stockholm, on the mainland directly north of Gamla Stan. Much of its historic medieval-era street pattern was demolished between the 1950s and 1970s in a redevelopment programme known as the Norrmalmsregleringen, replaced with modernist office blocks, a new pedestrian square at Sergels … Read more

Östermalm is one of Stockholm’s inner-city districts, occupying the mainland area east of Norrmalm and facing the water toward Djurgården. It was replanned in the second half of the 19th century as a grid of broad, straight streets cut through by diagonal boulevards and a large circular square, replacing an older quarter of barracks, workshops … Read more