Modern buildings

Modern architecture vs light.....
The mall in Borlänge is the highlighted of a new area of the city called the "Valley Of The Future". The flying saucer like building does rase eyebrows
This is a try of photographing modern city scapes. Much because, I try to catch some of the cool desolated looks from the modern billboard style of architecture.

Before you guys and girls turn me into a 100 per cent sexist, I would like to give an idea of the image.

The area her looks like alien or at least a hostile, cold place the add with the girl in swimming suit does give a warm vision of a dream of being somewhere else.


Neon lights in the dark adds a warm light, yet artificial, to this cold May evening. Inmagine the cold November morning with wind whipping through the open space of generous parking lots...


The modern malls are built fast to sell, offering huge areas of empty walls to the company logos, often highlighted with light. The photography here does offer a wild possibilities when playing aroound with angles of the buildings and wide angle lenses of the camera.

A office building that looks like a hanging bridge.



Look again! This is not a bridge. It is an office! But it does look a clever idea of the buildings owners business.

It is all new and clean, but how will it wear and tear in the future. Most of the buildings considered as "ugly" are buildings that are 30 or 50 years old which are not been repainted or renovated yet.


The main office for the national agency of roads and highways is hardly to be misstaken for something else. The modern construction elements of concrete and glass does offer lot of new possibilities. I like the way they seem to included a building within the building, this building inside do have a lot of American flavour, In this case it seem to work. By the way while shooting these photos, I was followed by a car with a security guard, who must have been wondering about why I was driving around in circles and stopping once in a while. This is my firends, are perhaps sign of the time as much aswell the architecture itself.... dold? inmagnine this I shot them in May, how would be in cold bitter wind of dark, dark night of let's say, November...

A look at small town of Otta, Norway.

Otta is a small town at the very north end of Gudbrandalen, where the valley transforms itself in to the Dovre Mountains, The towns in Norway are not affraid to blend modern architecture in their picturesque small town frame by the very scenic surroundings. Unlike the situation in Sweden, it seems even though in some extend, the presence of the modern buildings seem to blend it pretty well. Most propably this is a result of lack of standardsation compared in Sweden.

Hamar, Norway.





As a departing view of Norway, the combination of concrete, glass and light near the railroad station of Hamar.
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