Uploaded on 2015-06-17 by PetraPalusova

Gothia Towers in Gothenburg is Europe's largest fully integrated hotel, exhibition, event and conference centre. In October 2011 began construction of a third tower - 100 meters high with 29 floors. The project was presented in 2008 and the third tower was completed in February 2015. The combination of steel, concrete and glass is typical for globalized economy, especially for post-modern architecture of everyday public use. Origin of materials - Germany, China, Poland. Local materials of Sweden such as bricks, clay and wood are still widely used, but mostly in combination with globally used materials. However, most of the old production plants of traditional materials have disappeared and the great European manufacturing companies own the remaining ones. Haga Tegelbruk near Enköping, 100 km west of Stockholm, is the only one remaining of the modern brickworks. It belongs to the Wienerberger Group, with plants in many countries around the Baltic Sea. The Haga plant produces facing bricks. The one remaining producer of roofing tiles is part of the Lafarge -Tekkin group, with factories all over the world. At the Vittinge brickworks standard single and double tiles are produced through extrusion. There are two small producers of hand-made bricks left – one in the region of Dalarna (Bältarbo) and one in Västergötland (Horns tegelbruk). They are both making bricks on demand but also roof tiles and floor paving.