I have my doubts but the homesite (http://www.ssmfastigheter.se/skyskrapan.html) is still there and SSM (http://www.ssmfastigheter.se/) has a link and a picture of it in their main page of the website and they say that they want to start the construction 2008 and reach a construction end during 2010. It will be about 200m, have 67 floors, 350 apartments and cost about 700-800 million Swedish kronors according to SSM. They haven't decided the prices of the apartments yet. It's located at Telefonplan 3km south of Södermalm and about 6km south west of the central train station.

http://www.analyskritik.press.se/Framtidvision/skrapa_02.jpg
http://www.ssmfastigheter.se/images/bild_skyskrapan_02.jpg
http://www.ssmfastigheter.se/images/bild_wingard.jpg

Links:

The projects website (http://www.ssmfastigheter.se/skyskrapan.html)
Wikipedia (http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Us_Tower)
Wingårdh (http://www.wingardhs.se/php/flash.html)

It will be about 200m, have 67 floors, 350 apartments and cost about 700-800 Swedish kronors according to SSM.
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700-800 swedish crowns, what a bargain, build it at once! :) ;)

this tower will never be built.

This is just a vision, it's not even proposed from what I have heard... :P

700-800 swedish crowns, what a bargain, build it at once! :) ;):lol:

I haven't heard anything for a long while now either. It got that initial media-blitz, but that was it :(

I really like the design though and think Telefonplan could be a great place for a real scraper with the areas already in progress densification and urbanisation - and the proposed over-decking of the subway station and resulting further densification and urbanisation.

I'm getting the feeling SSM pulled an "Annehem" on us with this one.

I don't think this will be built. People don't like the design.

I think the design is really good, but the height will get the Nimbys to marsch all the way to city-council.

Height - hell yeah!
Design - no way!! :)

I agree, the design sucks, but great with the height, the location sucks too in my opinion...

I actually kinda like the design. Sleek, simple and the way the facade is more and more window-y the higher you get... works for me! :)

So is this a vision or a proposal? Because if visions gets up here as real proposals i know of a few other cool projects which should be mentioned in its own thread here. But thats wrong, so i won't mention them in this section.

Anyway, sleek and simple design, could actually look good, but not in sthml, so i won't cry out loud if it gets rejected, or just die.

So is this a vision or a proposal? Because if visions gets up here as real proposals i know of a few other cool projects which should be mentioned in its own thread here. But thats wrong, so i won't mention them in this section.

It's a vision and a proposal. They don't employ Gerth Wingårdh for a pure fantasy project. How likely it is to get built is another issue. I don't think anybody here can be the judge of that.

It's a vision and a proposal. They don't employ Gerth Wingårdh for a pure fantasy project. How likely it is to get built is another issue. I don't think anybody here can be the judge of that.

It was dropped for a half year ago...

So our insider in the biz ;) says it has been killed? so be it :(

As usual nothing about this has been heard in the media. You'd think DN and others would boast about having killed another project (even if it wasn't really them).

Height - hell yeah!
Design - no way!! :)
I was just going to say that:D

So our insider in the biz ;) says it has been killed? so be it :(

As usual nothing about this has been heard in the media. You'd think DN and others would boast about having killed another project (even if it wasn't really them).

Looks like Tell-us tower is still alive (or not yet dead) according to this article:
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?a=710632

A translated extract of the text: "We will probably see more landmarks getting built, one of these is the 200 metres tower at Telefonplan (Tell-us tower)".

So, I guess only time will TELL if we will see TELL-us tower completed :clown:

Yes, but Dn is full of shit! ;)

A member of the "Stockholm är inte Bullerbyn"-Facebook group poasted this, a reply he got from the developers behind Tell Us Tower:
Hej!

SSM presenterade sitt skyskrape-projekt “Tell Us Tower” våren 2006, och
idén väckte stor uppmärksamhet i press, radio och TV med ett hundratal
artiklar och inslag.

SSM har löpande därefter haft en dialog med kringboende och andra kommun-
invånare om projektet, och mött i huvudsak ett stort intresse och positiv
respons. Likaså har det varit ett positivt mottagande hos såväl politiker som
många ledande tjänstemän i Stockholm Stad.

Ett projekt av den här karaktären är mycket komplicerat och problemen
mångfacetterade, som t.ex trafikföring, normer för buller och luftkvalitet, samt stadsplanering och konstruktion. Det har efter ett och ett halvt års utredande visat sig att tiden fram till en färdig detaljplan och bygglov blir alltför lång, vilket innebär att SSM beslutat att utveckla en annan intressant bostadsbyggnad med god och spännande arkitektur på sitt markområde.

SSM har idag 166 bostadsrätter under produktion i Telefonplansområdet, och
samtliga är sålda innan färdigställandet. Ytterligare två etapper om totalt 100
bostadsrätter börjar inom kort att byggas.

Alla de som hört av sig och velat teckna sig för en bostadsrätt i Tell Us Tower är välkomna att kontakta SSM för information om de kommande spännande projekten som alla kommer att innehålla någon extra kvalitet.



Med vänliga hälsningar
Anna Salin
SSM Bygg & Fastighets AB


Bascially: they got plenty of attention at first and the reactions were mostly positive. But the planning/beurocracy surrounding the project got to much, so the proposal died after about 1½ years working on it.
Status: Canceled.

that sucks:(:badnews:

A member of the "Stockholm är inte Bullerbyn"-Facebook group poasted this, a reply he got from the developers behind Tell Us Tower:


Bascially: they got plenty of attention at first and the reactions were mostly positive. But the planning/beurocracy surrounding the project got to much, so the proposal died after about 1½ years working on it.
Status: Canceled.
The good side of this is if they got positive feedback; others might be inspired to go high.

Sbk is just starting the detail planning process of an area near the subway station midsommarkransen wich contains something called "högt hus". So I think theres a decent chans that we will se something quite high in that neigborhood. Hopefully it will be a bit more inspiring than the Tell us tower...

Are you sure they want to build something around Midsommarkransens subway station. I think they rather will build something around Telefonplans station (next station on the red line)...

Are you sure they want to build something around Midsommarkransens subway station. I think they rather will build something around Telefonplans station (next station on the red line)...


Misstake by me, you are absolutely right. It is of course near the subwaystation at telefonplan ther are planning to build.

I hope that with "högt hus" they don't mean 5-10 floors. That would be a joke. I want a real skyscraper there, god damn it!

Sorry if I got carried away there.

Cheers!

Hi, i living in telefonplan (south of Stockholm) and i have to say that it was very pity to heard about the canceling of the Tell us tower! I think the people in sthlm are afraid of high buildings! We realy need more vigour here!
S C:bash:

Welcome to SSC SC! :)

From the oldskool-est to the newest Stockholm forumer: välkommen till vår lilla hörna :)

Yes, there is definatly an anti-highrise vibe among many in Stockholm. Anti-new-buildings-in-a-residential-area too :\ Some of us like to call part of the problem "Klararivningstraumat". It's time to move on.

The death of TellUsTower didn't really surprise me. It sounded too good to be true right from the start. And previous deaths of visionary tall buildings here have made a cynic about these things.

I wonder what they'll do with all the customers that have booked apartments in Tell Us Tower...

Hej! I have heard about another building projekt there in telefonplan, from HSB construction, one residential building and it will be JUST 17 floor high! Just enough to see it from the motorway, yeah! We need some great landmark in the south part of the town, now! The venture in Kista is all right but i hope they don´t forget the south (söder om söder!)
SC:banana:

I wonder what they'll do with all the customers that have booked apartments in Tell Us Tower...

They will be deported to Gbg.

Hi, i living in telefonplan (south of Stockholm) and i have to say that it was very pity to heard about the canceling of the Tell us tower! I think the people in sthlm are afraid of high buildings! We realy need more vigour here!
S C:bash:

Oh yes. Indeed they are affraid of anyting new!
If you havent already, join us at http://www.yimby.se/ where we fight for a change of this view.

It would have been a beautiful landmark.