SkyView, Glass gondola attraction at Avicii Arena, Stockholm, Sweden.
Skyview is a gondola ride running along the exterior of the spherical Avicii Arena, with two glass-enclosed spherical cabins that travel on parallel tracks up the building's south side. Each cabin holds up to 12 passengers and rises to the arena's top, 130 meters above sea level. The entrance is from Arenatorget.
The Avicii Arena opened in 1989 originally as the Globe and was renamed in 2021 to honor Swedish musician Tim Bergling. The gondola system was added later as a visitor attraction to showcase the distinctive building from a new angle.
Before boarding, visitors watch a short information film covering how the Globe and Skyview were built. The ride is named for the view it gives over Hammarby sjöstad, Hovet, Tele2 Arena and, in clear weather, far across Stockholm. The arena itself represents the Sun in the Sweden Solar System, the world's largest scale model of the Solar System.
Entry to Skyview is from Arenatorget, and before boarding you watch a short film about how the Globe and the ride were built. A round trip to the top takes about 20 minutes. The gondolas are level-regulated to stay horizontal, and each cabin holds up to 16 people.
The gondolas were built by Liftbyggarna of Östersund, whose fitters worked with mountaineers on the arena's exterior; the design came from Berg Arkitektkontor, the firm behind the Globe itself. The project cost around 30 million kronor. On 12 June 2010 a cabin stalled at 45 metres with 15 people aboard, who were evacuated via a ramp to the second gondola.
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