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William - Olsson days ( born June 8, 1888 in London, † August 22, 1960 ) was a Swedish architect who was best known for he had designed and transport hub Slussen in Stockholm.

Life

William - Olsson days was in 1928 by the Stockholm Straßenbauamt the order, (popularly called "the Slussen Misery " ) to investigate the partially chaotic traffic situation at Slussen and to develop a proposal to solve the traffic flow there. Here clashed six busy streets, as well as rail and water transport and a major improvement was urgently needed. William - Olsson worked not only with the transport hub, but also with the surrounding buildings. His ingenious solution was one of the first inner-city non-crossing motorway shamrocks Europe. The facility was completed in 1935 and already prepared for the legal transactions.

In 1943, committed the Stockholm Stadtbauamt days William - Olsson, to participate together with the architect Paul Hedqvist, in the redesign of the Stockholm City. A majority of these plans have been implemented about ten years later into reality. In the same year William - Olsson was appointed head of urban planning in Gothenburg. There, he designed together with his son Anders William Olsson numerous residential buildings, including Apartments with flexible, removable inner walls of what was new in the Swedish housing. William - Olsson days until his death active in his profession as an architect.