Kaknästornet

Kaknästornet
View of the TV Tower
General information
Architectural style	Neo brutalism
Town or city	Stockholm
Country	Sweden
Coordinates	59°20′06″N 018°07′35″E
Construction started	1963
Completed	1967
Height	155 m (509 ft)
Design and construction
Architect	Hans Borgström Bengt Lindroos

The Kaknäs tower (Swedish: Kaknästornet) is a TV tower in Stockholm, Sweden. It has 72 pillars. The tower is a major hub of Swedish television, radio and satellite broadcasts. It was finished in 1967, designed by architect Bengt Lindroos, and the height is 155 metres (509 ft) or 170 metres (560 ft) with the antenna included. For a few years Kaknästornet was the tallest building in Scandinavia^{[citation needed]} until Näsinneula was opened in Tampere, Finland in 1971. It was surpassed in 2000 by the Kista Science Tower in north Stockholm as the tallest building of Sweden, a mere three meters taller,^{[citation needed]} which in turn was surpassed by Turning Torso in Malmö in 2005. The tower is owned by the national Swedish broadcasting company Teracom. It can not communicate with some southern satellites due the environmental orders that protect the ancient oak trees owned by the King of Sweden.^{[citation needed]} These block the "line-of-sight".

The tower is open to the public, with information centre/gift shop, indoor and outdoor observation decks as well as a restaurant. The tower affords superb views of Stockholm city to the west and Stockholm archipelago to the east.

Popular culture

• The tower appears in the SVT1 (a.k.a. Kanal1) ident from 1988. [1]

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External links

Media related to Kaknästornet at Wikimedia Commons

• 360 degree view from the Kaknastornet by photographer Jonathan Winstone.
• Information from Stockholm Town
• Information from Teracom (Swedish)
• Kaknäs Transmission Tower at Structurae