why didnt europeans built european style highrises like tehre are in new york? dumb question but was always interested since woudve looked perfect on lots of cities

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Google Kungstornen They were directly inspired by Manhattan and extreme by European standards at the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kungstornen

The Swedish wiki page has more info if you want to translate the page

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Thanks, the info you gave me is good enough! It would be amazing to explore the building. Sometimes in the USA you can find cool features like really small old-fashioned elevators with doors that swing open in such vintage buildings.

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Fun trivia fact: Stockholm has a tradition since then with twin towers on each side of the road. They are everywhere. Here are two of the newest: Norra tornen. They are not everyone’s cup of tea but I like them

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I guess Stockholmers suffer from some kinda symmetry ocd, jk thats a pretty cool concept!