Stockholm Stock Exchange Building

Börshuset on Stortorget, the main square of Stockholm's old town, at dusk. Erik Palmstedt drew the plans, and it went up between 1773 and 1778 for the Stockholm Stock Exchange, which used the building for more than two centuries before leaving entirely in 1998. Its front is modest next to the temples later exchanges built, a reminder of how small markets once were. The building now has a second fame: the Swedish Academy meets here and announces the Nobel Prize in Literature from it, and the Nobel Prize Museum is housed here too.