You missed the massive open mining area right next to the city. The city has been moved, so they could operate the mine
Looks randomly generated by some simulator but pretty nonetheless!
Colorful winter.
Cute
Are you done moving it?
Like fairyland
How lovely
Sweden is such a great and beautiful country. But these winters can be so depressing. I was there last year around this time and man did I had a difficult time to adjust to the darkness.
All these comments and none mentioning how pretty it is and how a nice a photo this is.
Heaven
Love the colors. That’s how it should be.
Seems nobody mentioned this:
Kiruna is home to a spaceport and research center and it’s the homeplace to the European Space master program. Super interesting stuff.
I’ve been there! Took these pics. It’s close to the Ice Hotel. Beautiful place
So thats were Denmark exports their leftover legos to
Oh my God!
This radiates innocence and optimism, that can only be found in children’s picture books from the eighties.
Looking at this picture I get an itch to pull out my Lego set and drink chocolate milk, knowing full well that despite the Bomb, everything will be alright.
Oh man, when did my childhood dreams dehydrate?
Beautiful place – stunning …
I like the use of different colors. I wish we could learn to use colors.
If Wes Anderson could build a town
I see now why scando counties like colourful houses
Fun fact: Most houses in this pic Will be swallowed by the mine in about 50 years.
I work there “moving” the city center
I was there last year. I got lost in the new city by mistake. This town is a hell for your bicycle because everything is a slope!
I didn’t expect to see my apartment on Reddit this morning
Looks like accidental Wes Anderson.
man… 29th of February 2020. I remember it like it was yesterday. 2 years of painstaking non-stop work to get our student rocket and experiment ready for the launch at Esrange near Kiruna. We were on the train from Germany, we had planned a relaxing trip up to the north with stops in Copenhagen and Stockholm and would then take the night train straight to Kiruna for a 4 Week rocket launch campaign. We almost made it to Copenhagen when we got the email. “Launch campaign cancelled due to risk of new virus”.
We were gutted. We were told to wait a month to see if the situation improved. Of course we all know what happened then. Meanwhile our rocket and equipment was already shipped and waiting for us a few weeks earlier. April went by… May… June looked better than may, but worse then March. We missed our launch windows, rescheduled to October/November. We knew exactly what would happen. September started looking worse again, October was bad, November was bad. Launch cancelled again. Spring came, but again, risk was too high. By now a good chunk of the team had graduated, moved, gotten jobs. We didn’t even have the people for a launch now. Finally we were given a new launch window in October 2022. We declined. We missed our chance. The project was over, funding dried up. The rocket was sent back and put in storage. Probably for ever.
and this was the story how we almost visited Kiruna. Would have been cool.
Thought #1: That would make a heck of a jigsaw puzzle.
Thought #2: Okay, everybody: now move 2 km to the right! Go!
Spent a few days here, fun place. Main bar in town is full of characters, mostly very friendly.
Had beers and shots with:
– Local biker gang – the midnight sun riders or something, all 7ft tall Vikings
– Winter car test drivers
– some army guys (can’t remember what country) doing winter ops
– competitive dog sledder
– some guy preparing for a super long unaided para sling trip (think his name was Max Steel or something crazy)
– Local teenagers who make €150k a year working in the worlds largest iron ore mine (town was once moved to expand the mine).
The different color houses look kinda jarring during summer but when it snows it suddenly makes sense.
For those who live in Sweden or another country that uses these great color palettes on their building exteriors. Do you have a link to the color palettes from local paint companies, or just the company names, so we can draw some inspiration?
Fan va mysigt!
Written and Directed by Wes Anderson
Kinda reminds me of the Grand Budapest Hotel.
Wes Anderson would like to know it’s location
Can’t wait to get out of this colorful, cheery town. I’m going places, I tell ya.
Jealous Finn passing by
They take their roof insulation very seriously
Funny because the houses are ugly/simplistic, but the colors give it life. In Germany we have lots of these ugly houses but only greyish and white colors.
Accidental wes anderson
How do Swedes manage to keep their cities so tidy? Romanian towns are so depressing by comparison, so grey and covered with mold.
Wes Anderson neighborhood I see.
I spent a day there before hiking a stretch of the Kungsladen a few years ago. Definitely much prettier with a fresh blanket of snow.
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You missed the massive open mining area right next to the city. The city has been moved, so they could operate the mine
Looks randomly generated by some simulator but pretty nonetheless!
Colorful winter.
Cute
Are you done moving it?
Like fairyland
How lovely
Sweden is such a great and beautiful country. But these winters can be so depressing. I was there last year around this time and man did I had a difficult time to adjust to the darkness.
All these comments and none mentioning how pretty it is and how a nice a photo this is.
Heaven
Love the colors. That’s how it should be.
Seems nobody mentioned this:
Kiruna is home to a spaceport and research center and it’s the homeplace to the European Space master program. Super interesting stuff.
https://imgur.com/a/7Q8jfst/
I’ve been there! Took these pics. It’s close to the Ice Hotel. Beautiful place
So thats were Denmark exports their leftover legos to
Oh my God!
This radiates innocence and optimism, that can only be found in children’s picture books from the eighties.
Looking at this picture I get an itch to pull out my Lego set and drink chocolate milk, knowing full well that despite the Bomb, everything will be alright.
Oh man, when did my childhood dreams dehydrate?
Beautiful place – stunning …
I like the use of different colors. I wish we could learn to use colors.
If Wes Anderson could build a town
I see now why scando counties like colourful houses
Fun fact: Most houses in this pic Will be swallowed by the mine in about 50 years.
I work there “moving” the city center
I was there last year. I got lost in the new city by mistake. This town is a hell for your bicycle because everything is a slope!
I didn’t expect to see my apartment on Reddit this morning
Looks like accidental Wes Anderson.
man… 29th of February 2020. I remember it like it was yesterday. 2 years of painstaking non-stop work to get our student rocket and experiment ready for the launch at Esrange near Kiruna. We were on the train from Germany, we had planned a relaxing trip up to the north with stops in Copenhagen and Stockholm and would then take the night train straight to Kiruna for a 4 Week rocket launch campaign. We almost made it to Copenhagen when we got the email. “Launch campaign cancelled due to risk of new virus”.
We were gutted. We were told to wait a month to see if the situation improved. Of course we all know what happened then. Meanwhile our rocket and equipment was already shipped and waiting for us a few weeks earlier. April went by… May… June looked better than may, but worse then March. We missed our launch windows, rescheduled to October/November. We knew exactly what would happen. September started looking worse again, October was bad, November was bad. Launch cancelled again. Spring came, but again, risk was too high. By now a good chunk of the team had graduated, moved, gotten jobs. We didn’t even have the people for a launch now. Finally we were given a new launch window in October 2022. We declined. We missed our chance. The project was over, funding dried up. The rocket was sent back and put in storage. Probably for ever.
and this was the story how we almost visited Kiruna. Would have been cool.
Thought #1: That would make a heck of a jigsaw puzzle.
Thought #2: Okay, everybody: now move 2 km to the right! Go!
Spent a few days here, fun place. Main bar in town is full of characters, mostly very friendly.
Had beers and shots with:
– Local biker gang – the midnight sun riders or something, all 7ft tall Vikings
– Winter car test drivers
– some army guys (can’t remember what country) doing winter ops
– competitive dog sledder
– some guy preparing for a super long unaided para sling trip (think his name was Max Steel or something crazy)
– Local teenagers who make €150k a year working in the worlds largest iron ore mine (town was once moved to expand the mine).
The different color houses look kinda jarring during summer but when it snows it suddenly makes sense.
For those who live in Sweden or another country that uses these great color palettes on their building exteriors. Do you have a link to the color palettes from local paint companies, or just the company names, so we can draw some inspiration?
Fan va mysigt!
Written and Directed by Wes Anderson
Kinda reminds me of the Grand Budapest Hotel.
Wes Anderson would like to know it’s location
Can’t wait to get out of this colorful, cheery town. I’m going places, I tell ya.
Jealous Finn passing by
They take their roof insulation very seriously
Funny because the houses are ugly/simplistic, but the colors give it life. In Germany we have lots of these ugly houses but only greyish and white colors.
Accidental wes anderson
How do Swedes manage to keep their cities so tidy? Romanian towns are so depressing by comparison, so grey and covered with mold.
Wes Anderson neighborhood I see.
I spent a day there before hiking a stretch of the Kungsladen a few years ago. Definitely much prettier with a fresh blanket of snow.