Kista Torn

Kista Torn are a pair of 16 and 35-story apartment buildings connected at their base, currently under construction in Kista district of Stockholm, Sweden. The highest tower will be 120 m (390 ft) tall. This will make it the tallest residential skyscraper in Stockholm when completed in 2015, until Norra Tornen are scheduled to open in 2017.

The complex is designed by Brunnberg & Forshed architects and is situated 200 m (660 ft) from the nearest metro station, near the Kista Galleria shopping mall.

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Kista

Kista (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɕiːsta]) is a city of Stockholm Municipality in Sweden. Located northwest of central Stockholm, it is divided by the Stockholm Metro blue line into a western part which is primarily a working class and middle class residential area, and an eastern part occupied by commercial ventures, mostly in the telecommunication and information technology industry.

Kista is named after an old farm, still located in the area. The construction of the modern parts were started in the 1970s. Most of the streets in Kista are named after towns and places in Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and Faroe Islands. Because of its ICT industries and secondary CBD status, it became referred to as Chipsta or Sweden's Silicon Valley in the 1980s.

Economy

Kista is the largest corporate area in Sweden and important to the national economy. The construction of the industrial section of Kista began in the 1970s with companies such as SRA (Svenska Radioaktiebolaget, now a part of Ericsson), RIFA AB (later Ericsson Components AB, and later still Ericsson Microelectronics AB, and now Infineon Technologies), and IBM Svenska AB (the Swedish branch of IBM). Ericsson has had its headquarters based in Kista since 2003. The number of employees in Eastern Kista is estimated at around 28,000.

Kista (disambiguation)

Kista may refer to: