Borlänge

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Borlänge, a sleeping little town approximately 200km west of Stockholm. This was where pek went 2 weeks ago for his individual project site visit. (NOTE: a site visit here involves a 10hr over night train, folled by a 4hr morning train...no 30min SBS or MRT)

Being stuck in a studio course designed for the conservation of history, it is not surprising that again, this projects is about conservation of a old building. At least its not an old dilapitated blood stained slaughter house. This time, the building in question is the Swedish equivalent of Paxton's Crystal Palace. A 10000 meter square exhibition hall built during the 1897 Stockholm Exposition of Arts and Industry by Architect Fredinand Boberg, and a listed World Monument Site. Whats left of the original building is its huge steel trusses with movable joints, and thats is the ONLY thing peks planning to keep and use.

apparently, the Municipal of Borlänge is really excited about restoring this significant building. they were even generous enough to pay for our train trip there and back. What was more unsettling is that it felt like a publicity program as there were reporters invited. Never has pek been on the newpaper in his entire 8yrs in Singapore, and 1 month in Sweden he's already on 2....stress stress...