Not long ago voices began to be heard in certain presidential residences to the effect that the press was the ‘enemy of the people’: an accusation paradoxically alluding to the play through which Ibsen wanted to uphold, among other things, the vital
With 54,600 square meters of floor space and a collection of over 400,000 works, this is the largest art museum in the Nordic region. Officially named National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, the building is a fruit of the fusion, in 2003, of
Instead of being simply a facility for the safeguarding, display, and dissemination of the work of Edvard Munch, the building is conceived to be a dynamic hub for contemporary culture and a cohesive element for Oslo and the country at large. Designed
In the year 1947, the Norwegian ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl went off to sea in a hand-built raft and sailed the almost 8,000 kilometers that separate the coasts of South America from the remote Polynesian islands. His mission was to demonstrate that a
The New Munch Museum is located next to the Opera House by Snøhetta, on the shores of the Oslo Fjord. This work of the Madrid studio of Juan Herreros won the international competition convened in 2009 to replace the previous gallery of the Norwegian
Because they work non-stop, bees – in the many varieties they come in everywhere – are among our chief suppliers of food, as much as one-third of food production in the world being dependent on pollination. They are also leading agents for keeping na
Tjuvholmen is a new cultural quarter located to the south-west of Oslo’s city center. Integrating art and leisure, the complex combines the Astrup Fearnley Museum and an office building with a new public sculpture park, swimming beach and waterside p
In a gesture that highlights the Oslo Opera House built by Snøhetta and the urban area at its podium, the future museum will not just host the work of the Norwegian painter, but it will also play an important role as a cohesive element in the city an
In 1999, the National Assembly of Norway decided that the new Opera House was to be constructed on the Bjørvika peninsula, on the shores of Oslo’s fjord. The new construction was a first step in the development plan for this formerly industrial water
The increasing importance given to children’s education is evidenced in the case of this building by the fact that local authorities seeked a contemporary expression for the new kindergarten, and chose as site for its construction a small urban park
La Asamblea Nacional de Noruega decidió en 1999 que la nueva Ópera de Oslo se emplazara en Bjørvika, una zona de la capital situada en la orilla de su fiordo. El edificio, cuya construcción supone el primer paso de un plan de desarrollo para esta áre
With its shores occupied by all sorts of sheds and factories, the river Aker has been at the same time witness and also the driving force behind the industrial development that has taken place in Oslo from the 18th century. Since these constructions
On a hill crowned by large pine trees – in a district south of Oslo – a new church, following the Scandinavian tradition, avidly pursues light and proximity with nature. A plot of approximately 2.000 square meters allowed to situate the different par
The Future Library, a project dreamed up by the Scottish artist Katie Paterson, was opened to the public in Oslo. After eight years, manuscripts penned by some of the world’s most famous living authors were delivered to “The silent room” on the top f
“Can only have been painted by a madman.” Edvard Munch penciled this phrase on The Scream, the very famous, disturbing work showing the fjord of Oslo in the background: the same place that is the site of the city’s new icon, the Munch Museum, built b
Munch Museum
The firm Reiulf Ramstad has won the invitation-only contest to expand the museum that harbors Fram (Framtid, meaning future in Norwegian), the ship that Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Svedrup, and Roald Amundsen used in their famed expeditions. As part of a s
Curated by a Spanish team, the triennale takes stock of the phenomenon of belonging, and of the ways of building the collective in a global world.
On 5 June, after five years of intense public controversy, the City Hall of Oslo authorized the construction of Lambda, the project drawn up by Herreros Arquitectos for the new Munch Museum, Norway’s leading emblem and a must-stop in the art circuit.
Situado en un pequeño parque urbano del centro de Oslo, el edificio para la guardería de la congregación Fagerborg responde a un doble requerimiento: el respeto, por un lado, a la tradición tipológica de su entorno, formada por edificios de baja alt
RFA Fenwick Iribarren Architects, estudio dirigido por Mark Fenwick y el español Javier Iribarren ha ganado el concurso por invitación para el proyecto del nuevo Estadio Nacional de Fútbol de Noruega. La propuesta, con una capacidad para 55.000 espec
A pesar de haber sido una de las mayores atracciones turísticas de Oslo, en el año 2005 se aprobó el derribo del centenario trampolín de Holmen kollen, debido a que sus pequeñas dimensiones lo invalidaban para su uso en los Campeonatos Mundiales Nórd
El estudio de Juan Herreros se ha impuesto como ganador en el concurso para la construcción del Área Munch de Oslo con su propuesta titulada Lambda, frente a Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando o FOA (véase AV Proyectos 32). Con el objetivo de remodelar el acceso
Un iceberg transitable a orillas del fiordo, así se podría describir la Ópera de Oslo, obra del estudio noruego Snøhetta, ganadora del último premio Mies van der Rohe. El marcado carácter público del edificio, que resuelve la conexión de la ciudad co
In 1997 the Pritzker Prize fell upon the Norwegian Sverre Fehn, reminding us of the high-quality architecture to be found in one of the most remote, most unpopulous regions of the north. More recently, a rather different kind of honor – granted by th
