Archive for the ‘Architecture’ Category

Swedish Roadtrip: Vasteras Gherkin Town

March 6th, 2010 at 9:49 pm » Comments (6)

Lifecruisers reasons for doing a roadtrip sometimes are a bit unsual, this time to the Swedish Gherkin town about 100 kilometer from the capital Stockholm - to buy a vacuum cleaner - not gherkins…
It simply were the only nearby place that had the special supermodel we wanted, so off we went to the Swedish town [...]


Hotel Woodpecker Unusual Treehouse Suite

February 27th, 2010 at 10:34 pm » Comments (8)

There is some very creative hotels even in Sweden and we did a roadtrip to one of them a couple of weeks ago: Hotell Hackspett or in English Hotel Woodpecker, about 40 feet up in an old oak tree in one of the parks in Västerås.

This is a very traditional Swedish red cottage, just placed [...]


SkyView World Premiere: Globe glass gondola ride

February 5th, 2010 at 9:12 pm » Comments (9)

Stockholm got a new awesome world attraction: SkyView. Glass gondolas goes up on rails outside the Globe which gives the visitors a fabulous opportunity to see Sweden’s capital 130 m above sea level.
Construction start: Jan 2009. Premiere: 5 Feb 2010.
This is actually a top attraction of a top attraction since it’s situated on the Stockholm [...]