Swedish architect Martin Westerberg trained at the Technical School and studied at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm, and worked his whole life there. Since 1920 he was employed by the building authority. His biggest project was the Design for a Community House in Stockholm, for which he received an Honorable Mention at the 1932 Art Competitions in Los Angeles within the category Architecture, Design for Town Planning. Westerberg had won the respective tender in 1930. The so-called Medborgarhuset was built and opened in December, 1939. The building was restored in 1981 and is today a listed building. The design was more strongly influenced by neo-classicism than by the functionalism that was already fashionable at the time. The Community House is a monumental building made of yellow bricks with two large staircases and contains a public bath, an auditorium, a library, a sports hall and other facilities. Among his works were a wide range of buildings for schools, churches, rectories, and ward and nursing homes.
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