Architecture  The new opera house is coming to life 27/06/2006 :: The new opera house in Bjørvika in Oslo is slowly but surely starting to take shape in the capital's harbour area. Recently the first visitors were able to walk through the growing construction, and temporarily the sound of building was replaced by song. + More |
Architecture  Norwegian company to build WTC Museum 21/10/2004 :: Norwegian company to build WTC Museum
The Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta is going to build the new museum on Ground Zero in New York. Snøhetta ... + More |
Sverre Fehn Sverre Fehn Sverre Fehn (born 1924) received his architectural education shortly after WWII and quickly became the leading Norwegian architect of his generation. He is also Norway’s most widely acclaimed architect abroad.
Fehn’s teacher, Arne ... + More |
The 1990s Norwegian Architecture in the 1990s In the 1990s Norwegian architects returned to modernism’s roots. Private homes and office buildings alike were given large, smooth facades and clear geometrical volumes reminiscent of the functionalism of the 1930s. The most widely ... + More |
The Alexandria Library The Library of Alexandria
The ancient library of Alexandria contained the greatest collection of writings in antiquity. When it was destroyed in the 5th century A.D., a vast trove of ancient wisdom was lost forever.
In 1989 the Egyptian state announced an ... + More |
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