Uppsala's new Concert House

Uppsala's new Concert & Convention Center is taking finished from on Vaksala Torg, to the east of downtown.

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The local newspaper, Upsala Nya Tidning, is keeping track of citizens' reactions on its blog, while local wags have already come up with several nicknames for Danish architect Henning Larsen's design, including House of Cards, The Piano, and Forsmark #4, the latter due to the aesthetic resemblance to three troubled nuclear power stations on the east coast of Sweden.

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Peter Leonard
Graduate student in Scandinavian Literature at the University of Washington.

2007-08: Fulbright Fellow & Guest Researcher at Uppsala University's Centre for Multiethnic Research.

Spring 2007: Exchange student in Nordic Literature at the University of Copenhagen, Scan|Design Fellow. Intern at Museum Tusculanums Forlag, the University Press.

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