Kaknästornet, Television tower in Ladugårdsgärdet, Sweden.
Kaknästornet is a television tower in Ladugårdsgärdet in Stockholm in Sweden and rises 155 meters above the surrounding area. The reinforced concrete structure serves as a central broadcasting point for Swedish television and radio stations.
Bengt Lindroos designed the tower, which was completed in 1967 and remained the tallest structure in the Nordic countries until 1971. After Näsinneula in Finland opened, it lost that status to the new construction.
The name comes from the medieval village of Kaknäs, whose name pairs "kaka", meaning good harvest, with "näs", a narrow peninsula over a strait. The tower stands in the Royal National City Park, and a burial ground about 360 metres east shows the area was settled in prehistoric times. The ground-floor shop walls carry Walter Bengtsson's enamelled copper work "Spelrum Futurum".
The tower has been permanently closed to visitors since 2018 due to security measures protecting the national broadcasting infrastructure. Anyone wishing to photograph or document the building has required special permission since 2019.
The tower has 34 floors, not 30. Its concrete surface carries bands of faint reliefs reproducing video test signals used in analogue television; they are hard to see from a distance and were partly filled in during the latest renovation. The restaurant windows are coated with a thin gold film as sun screening.
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