Answer to submitter. Do not paint the new lock as an imagined wall

The new building in Slussen is not a sign of society’s fragmentation. It’s just a building.

The new « wall » at Slussen, as Svante Björkum describes it, on the one hand can be seen as a demarcation between people, a cane in the wheels of gender equality and a means for segregation. This perspective chooses the writer to take. But the new building is also seen as a gathering place, a forward -looking architecture project or why not an ordinary wall in stone.

To say that, in my opinion, a pretty good staircase in stone would symbolize some kind of separation of social classes is banal. Svante Björkum attacks the bad decisions of the responsible. He seems to say they have bad intentions.

When I am set Before situations when people claim that others have a certain opinion, I usually ask myself who the people are who think this. Does Björkum claim that the architects want to create class differences? Are it the construction workers, project managers or politicians who are happy to see a divided Stockholm? No, the fact is probably that no one wants to see it.

The only « Chinese wall in Stockholm » that exists is in the writer’s own imagined world. In Sweden and Stockholm there are a lot of problems, let’s not create new ones.

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