Oslo's New Opera Strikes a High Note
Nordic Reach › Vol. 22 Nbr. 27, February 2009 › News
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Snohetta, the Oslo-based architectural company which is named for Norway's second-largest mountain, is an internationally renowned name in architecture. Snohetta designed Egypt's strikingly beautiful Alexandria Library, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, as well as Oslo's new opera house. Snohetta was also commissioned to design the Museum Pavilion that will serve as the entrance to the Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center.
A generous public space, the roof, or roofscape, is built with 35,000 white Italian marble slabs, covers an area of some 18,000 square meters, and overlooks the Oslofjord and downtown Oslo. With its stark white surfaces, and with the crystalline glass walls of the main foyer crashing through it, the Opera has been likened to an iceberg, a notion borne out by the roof, which gently slopes all the way to the water's edge, ending in a wide waterfront plaza. It's rather like an architect-cum-sculpture park, and like thousands of others, I enjoyed it thoroughly when visiting Oslo last summer.See the full content of this document
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Oslo's New Opera Strikes a High Note
The Karl Johan Gate, the Fifth Avenue of Oslo, may no longer be the obvious choice for a leisurely walk in the nation's capital.
Now there's the Opera roof.Under c...See the full content of this document
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