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Cyrillus Johansson
Cyrillus Johansson (9 July 1884, Gävle - 20 May 1959, Lidingö) was a Swedish architect.
Life and work.
Laurentius Cyrillus Johansson was born in Gävle, Sweden.
He was the son of Magnus Johansson and Johanna Charlotta Bohlin
His father worked as a stonemason. He studied architecture at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg and graduated in 1908. After his studies he moved to Stockholm to pursue his career as an architect.
Although productive as an architect already during the 1910s,
of the building, the Municipal Council no longer convenes its meetings in the building but uses the local Peoples' House (Swedish: "") instead.
Exterior.
A student of National Romanticism architecture, Cyrillus Johansson applied a restrained form of Brick Expressionism to his town hall design – one of three official buildings he designed for the municipality. The west-facing tetrastyle portico is in fact a folly with the entrance off-set to the south-facing west corner. Sculptured in brick above each of the first-