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The emergence of National Romanticism in Scandinavia in the 1880s gave rise to buildings such as Martin Nyrop’s Copenhagen Town Hall (1892–1902), which combined Northern Renaissance features with a crenellated Gothic skyline. Its fine craftsmanship and delicate eclecticism were echoed in the celebrated Town Hall at Stockholm, designed in 1908 by Ragnar Östberg and executed in 1911–23. In Finland, Lars Sonck worked in an Arts and Crafts Gothic style reminiscent of the work of the American Henry Hobson Richardson—e.g., his Tampere Cathedral (1902–07) and Telephone Exchange, Helsinki (1905). The Gothic Revival never really took hold in Italy. The Pedrocchi Café ...(100 of 75935 words)