Sweden’s new border checks set to snarl rail traffic
December 24, 2015
Sweden’s plan for mandatory ID checks at borders, designed to reduce the flow of refugees seeking asylum, is about to have an unintended consequence: reducing
Sweden’s plan for mandatory ID checks at borders, designed to reduce the flow of refugees seeking asylum, is about to have an unintended consequence: reducing
An annual gingerbread-house competition in Sweden has taken on a new twist as its sponsor, ArkDes, an architecture and design center, challenged the bakers to find solutions to Stockholm’s growing housing crisis. With average waits for public or supported housing in the capital up to 8 years, the need for new construction is clear, and the ideas submitted ranged from high-rises such as those above mixed with low-rise to UFO-like structures. Gingerbread houses are a Christmas tradition, and…
If you’re a fan of architecture and your bucket list of travel destinations is running low, here’s a new list for you to consider: the buildings and sites that have just won prizes at the World Architecture Festival, held earlier this month in Singapore.
Scene in Gamla Stan, Stockholm. Photo: Jurgen Howaldt / Wikipedia Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo, in that order, have
Male Elk Photo: Malene Thyssen / Wikimedia In Spring, they say, a young man’s fancy turns to love—but for young elks, the time is now, September through October. Sweden’s National Wildlife Accident Council is taking…
A small airport in Sweden, as well as a few others, including one in the U.S., are testing taking the air traffic controllers out of the tower, leaving robot cameras to send images to controllers working far away. The idea, ultimately, is to allow…
In the past week, we’ve covered reports of multiple people gored by bison while taking selfies and a report yesterday about an angry elephant breaking
Swedish divers have hauled up a monster (or a grinning dog if you see it that way) once intended to impress or frighten enemy sailors facing a warship built in the late 1400s for King Hans of Denmark.
A Swedish family that found a message in a bottle while out in their boat near Gothenburg has now connected with the Norwegian youth who posted it eleven years ago, near his home in Frederikstad, Norway. The Swedish family read the message, “I…
Money with star power: Greta Garbo and Ingmar Bergman on new Swedish banknotes And no, they’re not adopting the Euro in place of familiar kronor—instead, they’re getting ready to take on unfamiliar kronor, as all of Sweden’s bills and…
Sweden’s plan for mandatory ID checks at borders, designed to reduce the flow of refugees seeking asylum, is about to
An annual gingerbread-house competition in Sweden has taken on a new twist as its sponsor, ArkDes, an architecture and design center, challenged the bakers to find solutions to Stockholm’s growing housing crisis. With average waits for public or supported housing in the capital up to 8 years, the need for new construction is clear, and the ideas submitted ranged from high-rises such as those above mixed with low-rise to UFO-like structures. Gingerbread houses are a Christmas tradition, and…
If you’re a fan of architecture and your bucket list of travel destinations is running low, here’s a new list for you to consider: the buildings and sites that have just won prizes at the World Architecture Festival, held earlier this month in Singapore.
Scene in Gamla Stan, Stockholm. Photo: Jurgen Howaldt / Wikipedia Stockholm, Copenhagen and
Male Elk Photo: Malene Thyssen / Wikimedia In Spring, they say, a young man’s fancy turns to love—but for young elks, the time is now, September through October. Sweden’s National Wildlife Accident Council is taking…
A small airport in Sweden, as well as a few others, including one in the U.S., are testing taking the air traffic controllers out of the tower, leaving robot cameras to send images to controllers working far away. The idea, ultimately, is to allow…
In the past week, we’ve covered reports of multiple people gored by bison while taking selfies and a report yesterday
Swedish divers have hauled up a monster (or a grinning dog if you see it that way) once intended to impress or frighten enemy sailors facing a warship built in the late 1400s for King Hans of Denmark.
A Swedish family that found a message in a bottle while out in their boat near Gothenburg has now connected with the Norwegian youth who posted it eleven years ago, near his home in Frederikstad, Norway. The Swedish family read the message, “I…
Money with star power: Greta Garbo and Ingmar Bergman on new Swedish banknotes And no, they’re not adopting the Euro in place of familiar kronor—instead, they’re getting ready to take on unfamiliar kronor, as all of Sweden’s bills and…