Åhléns Söder, Department store in Södermalm, Sweden

Åhléns Söder is a department store at the corner of Götgatan and Ringvägen on Södermalm in Stockholm. Its main white neoclassical building, designed by Edvard Bernhard and added in the late 1920s, has seven floors and over ten thousand square metres of floor space. A tall pavilion-like tower carries a red Å, and a globe-shaped clock with four dials stands above it.

Åhlén & Holm acquired the eastern part of the Pilsenerbryggeriet brewery site around 1910 and converted brewery buildings into its first department store, designed by architect Victor Fagerström, which opened in 1915 with its entrance on Ringvägen. In the late 1920s Edvard Bernhard added a seven-storey block facing Götgatan, and further extensions followed in the 1940s, 1960s and 1980s.

The building served as the editorial and printing hub for Vårt Hem magazine starting in 1921, a publication focused on home and family life. This role connected the store to the daily lives and domestic interests of Stockholm households.

The department store entrance is on Ringvägen, as it was in 1915, at the corner with Götgatan on Södermalm. Åhléns AB still has its head office in the building at Ringvägen 100. The original brewery building survives inside the complex but now holds offices and apartments, not sales floors.

The globe-shaped clock mounted in November 1942 weighs 3,500 kilos and has four dials. A red neon ring floats above it, and a Dala horse sculpture crowns the top. The tower first carried a large interwoven "ÅH" monogram, later replaced by a red "Å".