Intendenturförrådet

Intendenturförrådet (Swedish :"The Commissariat Warehouse") is a building on the islet Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, Sweden.

Designed by the city architect Johan Eberhard Carlberg (1683-1773) in 1728 and completed in 1731, the warehouse was where the Crown kept grains and other goods collected as taxes paid in kind. By 1795 it was briefly used to store the royal trophies before it was rebuilt into an Army storage in 1795. It then escaped two attempts by the Navy to transform it into a barrack in 1829 and 1898, and is still used for storage. While the plain buttoned-up exterior with its small arched windows and simple verticals is striking contrast to the contemporary Grand-Baroque Stockholm Palace across the water, the warehouse remains unique in several ways: It is the only historical structure on Skeppsholmen never used by the Navy; the only remaining major building by Carlberg; and it is arguably the only building of its kind in Stockholm which remains unaltered since its construction.cite book
author = Johan Mårtelius
title = Guide till Stockholms arkitektur
edition = 2nd ed. | year = 1999 | publisher = Arkitektur förlag
location = Stockholm | id = ISBN 91 86050-41-9
pages = 127 | chapter = Södra Innerstaden] cite web
title = Intendenturförrådet, Skeppsholmen
publisher = Statens fastighetsverk | date = | location = Stockholm | url = http://www.sfv.se/cms/sfv/vara_fastigheter/sverige/ab_stockholms_lan/skepps-_och_kastellholmarna/Intendenturforradet.html
accessdate = 2007-02-01] cite web
title = Skeppsholmen : Intendenturförrådet
publisher = Stockholms Sjögård | date = 2004-09-10 | location = Stockholm
url = http://www.sjogard.se/omrade/skeppsholmen.htm
accessdate = 2007-02-01] cite web
title = Skeppsholmen och Kastellholmen, Stockholm, Förvaltningsprogram, del 3, Historik
pages = 8
publisher = Statens Fastighetsverk
date = 2006-06-20
location = Stockholm
url = http://www.sfv.se/cms/showdocument/documents/sfv/aktuella_projekt/skeppsholmen/del_3_historik.pdf
accessdate = 2007-01-20]

As of 2007, the building is one of several potential locations for a proposed new Design Museum in Stockholm.cite web
title = Ett nytt formmuseum | pages = 23-26
publisher = National Council for Architecture Form and Design ("Rådet för arkitektur form och design)
date = 2006-08-22 | location = Stockholm
url = http://www.rafd.se/uploads/files/47.pdf | accessdate = 2007-02-01]

References

See also

* History of Skeppsholmen
* History of Stockholm