Saturday, December 22, 2007

JULMARKNAD / market

JULMARKNAD PÅ TORGET med hantverk och delikatesser.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

LUCIA / firande

LUCIAFIK PÅ VÄLLINGEHUS med lussekatter och expresso samt het glöggservering utomhus på torget vid de fem roliga bodarna, tittskåp på temat julvärldar, som tagits fram av fyra olika designers.

LUCIA DAY COFFEE with lussecat bread and hot glogg wine served outside at the town square by the five funny small houses with expo theme christmas worlds.

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

CAR CRASH / local news / accident

RAINING HEAVY. A black Audi car crashed against a light post at Lyckselevagen in Vallingby, West Stockholm Sweden. The car was almost completely damaged. No information about eventually injured available.
Maybe the car drived in to the right lane aimed for parking and didn’t see the black painted lamp post in the dark rain.
Full resolution image availabel upon request.

Kraftiga regnskurar. En svart Audi krashade mot en lyktstolpe
på Lyckselevägen i Vällingby i västra Stockholm. Bilen blev i stort sett totalförstörd. Ingen uppgift om eventuellt skadade finns.

LAST IN LINE / big construction crane

NOW AT LAST the final full size construction crane has arrived to New Vallingby Centre (aka Vixton) for the finishing of tree new high rise buildings. 61% more retailing space for a city with estimated 210.000 citizens in 2010.

ÄNTLIGEN har den allra sista riktigt stora byggkranen kommit till Nya Vällingby C för att resa tre helt nya höghus. Totalt har åtta stora fasta byggkranar, ett stort antal mobila kranar samt ett dussintal grävmaskiner används vid Sveriges troligen största samtida byggprojekt, som mars 2008 kommer att ha resulterat i ett stadskärnecentra med service för 210.000 innvånare och med 190 affärer, ett detaljhandelsdistrikt motsarande ca hälften av USA:s allra största köpcentrum, Mall of America.

Saturday, December 01, 2007

XMASS LIGHTS / art expo

KONSTUTSTÄLLNINGEN ”Julljus” startade idag med ett vernisage i Galleri Trappan i Vällingby i västra Stockholm. 15 artister tolkar julkonceptet på sitt personliga sätt. Evenemanget är producerat av Vällingby kulturförening och pågår till dan före julafton.

THE ART EXPO “Christmas Lights” started today
with a vernisage at The Stairs Art Gallery in Vixton Vallingby West Stockholm. 15 artists interpret the christmas concept in their own personal way. This event is hosted by Vallingby culture association and will continue to the day before christmas eve.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

JULSKJUL / christmas window

NOW ALL THE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS is up at the main square. Artists have decorated little cabins with different themes.

Friday, November 23, 2007

BLACK FRIDAY / christmas shopping starts

THIS IS THE FIRST DAY of the official christmas shopping season, the day is called Black Friday in the USA. The christmas gift of the year 2007 in Sweden is the GPS receiver. If you want to know all about the consuming habits of the swedes you should visit Handelns utredningsinstitut

If you want to give a stock in christmas gift to somebody you could chose the low valued Ericsson. The stock has dived down -46% this year, but it will possibly raise in the long run according to experts at di.se

By the way all shops att the main street, Angermannagatan opens at 10.00

Sunday, November 18, 2007

CHRISTMAS LIGHTS / night flight

MAKING A NIGHT WALK late saturday night. This weekend a lot of new stores has opened and at night decoration work are proceding under the awarded floating roof at the Main Promenade 5th Avn. Vallingby Vixton.

Friday, November 16, 2007

SUPPLY EXPLOSSION / new stores

vixton port

MASSOR AV NYA BUTIKER öppnade 15 november
kl. 10.00. Coop Extra, och Claes Ohlsson är bara ett par exempel. Det är nya Ångermannagatan och stationsområdet som öppnat.

Vixton Port
är ingången till det nya Centrumet, en tokigt flashig början på upplevandet av centrum placerat på det överdäckade tunnelbanespårområdet. Här finns det affärer inom design, elektronik och födovaror som dansken säger.

Läs Svebos pressmeddelande här
Läs Coops pressmedelande här


A LOT OF NEW STORES have opened 15 november at 10.00. Coop Extra and Claes Ohlsson is two examples. It is mainly stores on the New Angermannagatan Royal Main Street and Vixton Port has opened.

Vixton Port is the insanely weird and at the same time flashy completely new constructed area placed on top of the overdecked subway rail switchyard. Design shops, electronics, food stores etc. can be enjoyed here.

Friday, November 09, 2007

CHRISTMAS / decoration

NEW CHRISTMAS DECORATION is placed up on the roofs at the main street tonight. And the christmas cola and beer is out in the stores. Cheers!

Thursday, November 08, 2007

VÄLDELIGA VÄLLINGBY / gigavix

NEW VALLINGBY IS now taking shape with the astraly dimensioned red fashion temple designed by G. Wingaard. The little spot on the roof is a worker in action. Click on image for large size.

The mall with Lidl, Claes Ohlsson, Folkhemmet etc are opening up the gates in exactly one week. On Angermannagatan, the main street in the new business district, have opened. Several stores with home styling and decoration could be found there. Get some stuff to pimp up your home christmas 07 style with a lot of white.

Saturday, November 03, 2007

NIGHT / city sky line

vixton night

One night in Vixton. Photographed from the Johannelunds peak. The new eHouse where the IT Industries of Vixton/Vallingby are located on the left. Click on the image for a bigger overview and to go to flicker.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

ARTEXPO / by the castle


STOCKHOLM CITY COUNCIL local district in Vixton is hosting an art expo at Gallery Plaisiren at the old barn by the Hasselby Castle.

The old barn by the Hasselby Castle is a place where a future Lan and demopary in Vixton could be housed. Just a thought that it would be cool sitting there in the night with full moon out. Owls howling, wolfes in the bush and you are playing games in the barn with your friends all night.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

NEW / vix


THE CITY NIGHT LIFE at main street Vix with some new stores like Expert and the Nordea Bank finace office. See deatails and play around with notes at the flicker site

Sunday, October 14, 2007

VISION / and reality

A VISUALISATION of Vixton with the square and surrounding buildings.

Friday, October 05, 2007

PROMENADE / wall lights

TAKE A WALK in the night on the Sun Clock Promenade leading up to Vixton City from the Sun Clock Park throught the walls where new lights have been placed in the niches in the granite wall.

Latest news, friday night:
/// Some big dogs meetings with aggressive behaviours
/// Girl mobs shouting and cursing

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

VINDUSTRY / business zone

THE BUSINESS DISTRICT Vinsta foretagaromrade is the area where small, mid sized and large companies are located. The Moderate Party (m) wants to develop a special small new company village beside the established operations.

Sunday, September 09, 2007

ONE SIXTY TWO / vip west community











I HAVE FOUND SOME COMMUNITIES for Vixton at Facebook. I watched the Vasterort group and the Vallingby group aimed for the 200.000 people living in West Stockholm. I watched a discussion day at TV this week, from the Swedish State Board for Living (Boverket). There was some wague hints that the western part of Stockholm could be understood as a separate community or city. The country side land areas have been adopted by Stockholm from private land owners in a very special manner in the 1900ies.

By the way, Vixton postcodes starts at one sixty two (162) and an informal group called Vixton Personalities (VIP) is a virtual comunity for pseudo or anti celebreties comming from or living in Vixton. Maybee we could have a walk of fame for the overlooked heroes of Vixton. It’s like Stureplan but something completely different. Benny Andersson of ABBA was from Vallingby Vixton I have learned right now.

Images above linked in from wikipedia and from the Vasterort group at Facebook.

Thursday, September 06, 2007

BULKA BY NIGHT / liquor store


SYSTEMBOLAGET the official swedish liquor convenient store has opened a new store at Angermannag Mainstreet. The night image is taken with slow shutter speed in 1.000 msek exposure time with a special lightning program. The image is unedited in any software
Systembolaget on wikipedia
Systembolaget web
Night photograpy group on Flickr

Saturday, September 01, 2007

ART & CULTURE / weekend

THE CULTURE HOUSE AND CITY CENTRE the Stairways (Trappan), an old worn functionalistic modernistic public building with serveral halls in different levels like a big stairway, is under discussion by the local politicians with the objective and aim to facelift it. Thats really good news I think. I also have mailed the city that promissed to clean up the monumental Vixton symbol, the concrete sculpture the Sun Clock by Sven Holmström (1924- living at Las Palmas, Mallorca).

Play it again Stefan. Today the bluesmen Touch of blues will deliver an outdoor concert at the Stairways entrance. An art vernisage will be held at 12.00 inside. It is called ”Oil and Collage” by artist Bengt Bergström who also will entertain on the piano. At the Art Gallery Plaisiren at the Nordic Culture Centre Hasselby Castle the finnish culture association Nyansen has an exhibition. Open: 12.00–16.00.

“From first to last. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes. That flashes in and fades in the summer sky. You can do a lot in a life time. First you got to last” (Neil Peart 1989)

If you want to read about art and culture why not check out Financial Crimes Weekend Art Edition. Or check up Kulturnets art department or buy a book from Thames and Hudson World of Art

I searched for a position as designer at an Art Publishing company called IPG claiming that “[…]I’m madly engaged in art and design” Yeah sounds like crap, but it’s true.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

BIG BUS IN MUSIC / started in single room appartment



LUTHMAN soundability, one of Swedens biggest music resellers was started by Niclas Luthman in a single room appartmen in Vallingby/Vix, mainly to finance his dreams on building a famous studio. Luthman’s catalog is issued twice a year, in full color and presents instruments, amplifiers, software and other music equipement in 236 pages, with some focus on artists. To the left is a Gibson Les Paul Vixen Guitar in Corona Yellow. Click on the beauty to study her better. Visit Luthman

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

WORLD OF WINNER’S / poker champion



HIS NAME IS MATS, Mats Rahmn, lives in Las Vix who this summer won the Bellagio Cup III No Limit Hold’em in Las Vegas with a prize moneybag filled with USD 88.740. Mats started playing poker online when he was 18 years old, years before the big Poker boom that now is rageing. He played because he liked it and was good, played long nights and succeded, later went over to tournaments in the USA where he now is in a contract with Martins Poker.

Worlds most expensive poker tournament will start tomorrow in Denmark. It’s the Kickoffpoker founded by ex-soccer player Stig Tøfting. The competitors pay € 5.000 to buy in.



Friday, August 24, 2007

GOT WIFI / hot spots


¡ N E W ! The Library and McDonalds — now got Wifi hotspots for internet sevice! Take your laptop with you and visit them for heaven sake!
(·) Library
(·) Mackedonken
(·) Video

Sunday, August 19, 2007

WALK ON / the wild side


TOMORROW THE MAIN STREET Angermannagatan (Straits Street/BaymanSt/6th Avenue/MiniEsplanade/NewWallSt) will be opened, and on account of that I have taken a walk through and around the street tonight with the aim to do some photo documentation. The 3D picture above with the two towers (Duo DesignTowers) at Arevagen-crossing, modeled in SketchUP 3D for Google Maps, is made by P. E Riksson who I really would like to credit alot.

Avenue from the french language, means major street often with trees surrounding it. Esplanade also a french world: broad street with trees or plants in between the separated driving fields. The street is often surrounded by important buildings. Boulevarde is often used at the European continent and Esplanade in Scandinavia.

Friday, August 10, 2007

GRAND OPENING / main street


THE MAIN STREET called Angermannagatan [eng. Straits Street], named after a Swedish northen region, has been shut off for two years, a blasted out eight meter deep hole and later decked over and closed off when an underground garage was built beneath and new heated side walks layd.

Now there is hectic work everywhere on the street when work with asphalt, granite cutting and stone laying taking place. The street will be reopened for traffic and pedestrians on monday 20 August.

Thursday, August 02, 2007

ÄNTLIGEN / at last gert!



NOW AT LAST GERT WINGÅRDHS appreciated architecht design language is beginning to take shape and being interpretaded in the new fashion house. The first tall wall elements was rised yesterday in the fashion district destination.

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

THE GOLD / skatepark

THERE IS AN ADVANCED SKATE PARK, a rare phenomenon in Stockholm, skating fascilitates located in the Grimsta district. It's no admission to go there and use skateboard or inlines in the light blue ramps. Stockholm municipal gouvernment supported the construction with a grant of SEK 150.000 as a part of the ongoing city development. Youth and parents in the neighbourhood have worked with the construction that was finished in 2004. There has been conducted a competinion with pro’s and locals there.

More info and images on Grimsta Gold Skatepark on Tacky.se
Inlineing at Grimsta with FiftyKenth at YouTube

SUMMER GREETINGS / from vixton

Thursday, July 19, 2007

THE END / is near

THIS FALL most of the manifestation of the architechtual design work and construction will be finished in the centre core, except for the fashion zone and the block with the new high rise buildings behind the Angermannagatan (Bayman St/New Wall St). Much of the D in the ABCD concept has been focusing on Design of physicaly large constructions, shopping artefacts, like stores, markets, warehouses (hypermarkets /superstores), a process of artefactification if you want.

Several leading architects and companies has delivered high quality design. White, A1, Wingaard, Centrumutveckling to just mention some of the actors of this game of redefining a suburban centre to a new modern more tight or dense city core for the people of the future living in this northen province.

Several destinations or zones have been focused or pinpointed. The fashion district and house, the plaza under with the floating ceeling, the movie theatre city, the food court, the food market and hypermarkets over the overdecked railway area. The main street through the city core, Angermannagatan will be opened in August and around it small shops in a new destination concept called ”Vällingby Collection” will be opened. To Vixton people will come to be amused with new high quality shopping experineces usaly found in large metropolitan cities. Vixton developes to something like a sensual intime district in a proto minimegacity.

A question mark raised is how the citizens living in West Stockholm Vixton have reacted and worked on the transformation and development. Go here to find the answer given by the users of flickr.com. Here is one example from pro user JSNL. I give kudos to him. Go and watch his pictures now.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

DAYSAMPLER / le parkour

WHAT CAN YOU DO with a lot of construction trash and junk in your living district. Daysampler Vällinby makes a video with parkouring, the art or sport of fluid moving (free running) in a urban environment, around the Vixton districts.
Le Parkour started out in Paris 1988. David Belle was one of the greatest artist in this field. Here is a video called Super Mario Parkour with him. And here is a video called Rush Hour with David.

Watch the video with Daysampler parkouring in Vixton environments.

Urban Directory defines Parkour
Wikipedia on Parkour
Parkour institution American Parkour
Wiki Parkour Wiki
On Flicker The Parkour Group

Friday, July 13, 2007

PROUD PEARL / tower in E!dstr

ENTERTAINMENT LIFE IN VIXTON could find it’s home in the western part/district a Entertainment district [E!dstr] with it’s manifistation in a Entertainment Design Tower, Vixton Vallingby’s pride with a copy in 1:6 scale of the tower oriental Pearl in Shanghai. Companies, amuesment fascilities, a planetarium in the top, as well as a restuarant.

The western square beneath could be projected and esteticaly cleaned up, and then named after the local passed away famous rock musician/componist Tomas ”Quorthon” Forsberg, the inventor of several musical genres/ideoms.

A walk of fame could be created on the walk from the old high school and sport complex to the subway station and Movie City. Why dont mould cheramic stars in the concrete with famous peoples signatures on.

A1 Archictects could make a crowning with iron constructions, cloth with typo-print and lighting on the Duo Design towers in the background of Regretman Street [New Wall Street/Angermannagatan] in the same fashion as was the case at the roof of the tempoary shopping fascilities that was constructed inbetween the permanent buildings of Vallingby.

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

FASHION / dstrct

THE FASHION DISTRICT is raising. In spring 2008 the zone will be finished with it’s central building with a big red back lit roof.

Fashion Urban Definition
Urban Directory

Read more
Wingards Architechts
Modern Line Architechts

Thursday, June 28, 2007

CITY SHOPPING / urban life

VÄLLINGBY/VIXTON is developing like a flower opening to become a modern city in full bloom with great city shopping in it’s center core, from a former existence as ordinary suburban center. The question is, isn’t it soon time for a futuristic local Apple store like this in NYC.

The marketing gurus at Ruth.se however claims that city shopping is the concept that Vixton Design City will follow for a bright future from 2008, when the new remake is completely finished to meet the world.

Maybee the small shuttles called Flexen, mainly developed and maintained for senior citizens also could be used for comfortable tourist transportation and sightseeing.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

ELDKVARN / concert

6:th AUGUST the rock band Eldkvarn with Plura as captain visit Vix to do a gig at St:Tomas church. The band will play songs from the show and album ”Kärlekens låga”
Listen to Eldkvarn’s music at MySpace/Eldkvarn
A sneak peak in Eldkvarns new album blogg called Svartblogg

Friday, June 15, 2007

CULTURE / international attention

QULTURES European Culture eZine has today honored vixton with an article ”Vällingby, an ABC-town”. The text presents the reconstruction project of the world famous ABC-city and Newtown. Btw, have a nice sunny weekend, why not visiting vixton!

Monday, June 11, 2007

UNG08 / pre summer tour

















THIS SATURDAY
it was Vix time for Ung-08 Pre Summer Tour. It arrived to Kaanan Beach at 13.00. Gamezone, Streetbasket, demoband, guests and alot of other activities in the sun.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

ARENA CITY / 9000 seats

A NEW ARENA CITY is planned to be constructed over the subway rails in the eastern districts of Vallingby-Vix. This uplifting project will be finished in 2014. Over decked areas with a multi indoor arena with 9.000 seats, hotels and 2000 housing units will be built. Underground subway rails are also under concideration.

The local football club Brommapojkarna that advanced to the premier series will also be a part of this project. The subject will be discussed further at Svenska Bostader’s boards meeting that will be conducted next week.

Learn more
Arenastad planeras i Vällingby [Arena City planned in Vix] (SvD)
Nya Vällingby tar form [New Vix is shaped] (DN)

Saturday, June 02, 2007

MUSIC / touch of blues

LIVE OUTDOOR CONCERT with Touch of Blues today at 11.00 at town square in front of Trappan aka The Stairway, the local Culture House.

The band with 20 years
of experience perform tunes in the classic blues genre. Touch of Blues has been aired from radio stations in serval countries around the world. The bluesmen will be back in Vixson Rock City 16 june 11.00.

Stairway Culture Café open 11.00–16.00.
Stay tuned for more local blues at Stockholm Blues Society

Thursday, May 31, 2007

DEMOLITION / parking house

THE OLD PARKING HOUSE a 8 floor design from the 50-ies is now under demolition. A new underground parking solution will be built with a big housing block with high rise buildings constructed on it.

Monday, April 30, 2007

PARKING DESIGN / underground


NOW AT MAY 2 the new designed and underground localisated parking facilities under Angermannagatan (Regerman Street/New Wall Street) and Arevägen (Wixton Street) be opened.

White arkitekter is the responsible company for the redesign of the center. Here is a visualisation of how the new city will look.