Welcome to Norway | Velkommen til Norge

Welcome to Norway, the second least densely populated country in Europe, home to 5 million people or vikings, 6 million
mountains, 7 million fjords and even more polar bears (which of course isn't a fact)! Watch a few of these videos you
get you introduced to what Norway is about!

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Our section is growing and the number of forumers is increasing! Please introduce yourself here,
where do you live? what do you work with/study? how did you find Skyscrapercity and this section?
We'd all like to know!

Det går helt greit å snakke norsk også!

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Where do we come from?

Asker | shared_space
Bergen | City of Rain, notifyist
Drammen | kjetilab
Lillehammer | SmalltownUrbanist
Lørenskog | Fagereng
Oslo | Ingenioren, muster, IceCheese, shared_space, Galro, marshol, espenhs, SMCD, UrbanLife
Sandnes | Forbanna
Skien | Systematik
Stavanger | Waluigi, Nordicon
Steinkjer | Kjello0
Tromsø | Frode123
Trondheim | Þróndeimr, Tronnelon, arntf, essenze, Tohaki

Ill start with my self, currently living in Trondheim, but have lived most of my life (22 years) in Leksvik, a small village on Fosen! I worked with Emporis (http://www.emporis.com/) (a site that was actually good back then but not anymore) back in the days, and through it i got to know Skyscrapercity as it was launched in 2002. I finally registered in early 2003, 8 long years ago! Then in 2010 i was prompted to moderator, and since then i've been moderating all the sections on N&B.

When i am not on Skyscrapercity i work in the kindergarten, or i am off taking pictures, either of projects and the city to post on Skyscrapercity, or i am trekking/climbing the mountains! Enjoy travelling, volcanoes and all sorts of natural disasters as well.

^^ Nice. I'm a 38 year old guy living in Oslo for almost 20 years now. I have worked as a consultant within the security business for almost 15 years, but my background is from theater/film. I have a general interest in urban development, architecture and cities. Have been a member of this forum since 2006. :happy:

Well then.. I'm 27. Been living in Drammen since 2002, including 2 years in South Africa for studies. Curently I'm working in one the most traditional stores in Drammen, but my training is in political science. Also former member of emporis.com and co-founder (together with Þróndeimr and a few more of the regulars here) of YIMBY Norge (www.yimby.no).

I was introduced to SSC by MLM back in 2005.

18 next month, lived in Bergen my entire life (except about 2 years in Etne - don't ask). Generally interested in developments taking place in the country - especially in Bergen, obviously. Other than that, I enjoy occasionally taking the piss out of Oslo in true Bergensk spirit, and turning every Skybar-thread into religion-threads :) Once I finish school, I'm hoping to move somewhere a bit more exciting.

Troll^ :P

23 year old family guy and city biker. Living in Oslo since 2007, but Norway all my life. Study construction at umb. Found ssc when i was googling highways of India (!) and joined immediatly, then later found N&B.

I'm a 24 year old guy currently living at Steinkjer where I study business administration. I'm originally from a small village named Vinjeøra 10 km away from the county border between Sør-Trøndelag and Møre og Romsdal, but did live at Halsa just across the border between 1994 and 2001.

I found this board Googling for Euro 2016-talk. I later found the N&B section when I saw the topic of HSR being built in Norway in the "last post" column.

To be honest, I'm not that interested in urban development. And skyscrapers to me tend to be a bit to much. Such things as Manhattan is to my way to much both in hight and number. I'm more interested in regional development. And my opinion is that you can't have development without decent infrastructure first. So infrastructure is a topic that take up a lot of my time.

When not attending school or doing school work, I use much of my time watching, reading and discussing about football. I'm active on several football boards and I'm pretty sure there's at least one user in here that recognize me from another board I'm active on. And I have suspicions about a few others as well. Anyone wanna reveal themselves?

Otherwise, even though I'm only 24 and currently living in Steinkjer, I own the quite big farm (in area) I grew up on back at Vinjeøra. And I got E 39 running through my property.

And even though I'm a big fan of road building, I'll probably become a NIMBY if ever they were to plan a new road through my property. :) Which they'll have to do.

^^Aha, so you're one of those who demand tunneled motorways under you're farmland? Nice. Making an improved road-network more expensive for all of us:)


Well, to present myself, I'm a 23 year old guy currently residing in Oslo inner east, but been living most of my life in the suburban paradises of Ås and Vestby. I've just finished my bachelors degree, and will start on a Masters degree this fall.

When I'm not bothering you all with cell-phone captured photo-updates, I work part time at a grocery store, or take long walks around the city.

I discovered this forum back in '06 on search for creativ SimCity 4 stuff.

I've just spent a year in the military. I'm interested in cars, design, architecture and I love to take long walks in the city. I've considered to learn photographing to get anything out of my walks.

I found this board through my searched after info about Snøhettas Isfjellet.

I'm 24, born and raised in Oslo. I have lived here all my life, except from my years at umb, Ås, where I study landscape architecture. I'm actually finishing my master this month, so my time as a student is over (although I love the student life, and would like to continue at umb.)

I'm interested in urban development and architecture, both buildings and surroundings, especially in Oslo, and are fascinated by big cities and tall structures. Can't remember exactly how I ended up at ssc, but I'm pretty sure I was googling something and linked in here.

I'm 20 years old. Born in Oslo, lived for 6 years in Groruddalen, and then 14 in Skjetten (right around Lillestrøm). I'm moving to downtown Oslo in a month or so. I've just finished my first year of studying towards a bachelor in marketing. I find cities and infrastructure very interesting, I guess that's why I'm here.

I'm 36 years old, a Trondheim boy born and bred. I've lived in various parts of the city all my life, except for a five year stint in Scotland, working for the old computer industry giant IBM. When my son was born, I found incentive to move back to Scandinavia and also a change of career. Nowadays I work in a kindergarten (just like you Þróndeimr) and whatever free time I have is spent on football support, gaming with my son and dreaming of a larger, more urban Trondheim. I'm quite fascinated with construction sites, architecture and urban development, which is why I'm here.

Any girls in the norwegian section, or is it just guys?

^^Whadd'ya think? Closest we got, is cityofrain, I'm afraid.. Kind of like in a man prison.

http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww91/err37/chris-hansen-2.jpg

Refence for anyone who doesn't get it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnyXHkWJJXI

I think we can say that people don't have to feel obligated to tell their life story to make a post here. It is OK to just say something like "Hey, I live in ......, and I'm in this forum because ....". The main purpose is to get an overview of the Norwegian forumers and which parts of the country that is represented. What do you think Trondeimr?

m 27 years old. Born in India, lived for 25 years in India, and then 3 in Qatar working as structural civil engineer.

I lolled..

From Stavanger.
27.
Studied business.
Interested in everything beautiful and unusual.
Found this forum by searching for North American sprawls.
Lurked for some time.
Made an account.
Lurked some more.

Yeah, well – another male, 24, living at Løkka, working in business, and I’m trawling these forums because of an interest in urban developments, cities as a concept, architecture – and a sort of childish love for skyscrapers. While I like to keep track of the biggest constructions and developments on the planet, I have mostly been active in the Oslo threads.

(OT: would like to recommend the book ”Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier”. Undoubtly American, but a lot of interesting facts and arguments.)

I liked Waluigi's format, so i'ma go with that.

Skien (Read "Grenland").
25.
Historian.
Interested in urban development & infrastructure.
Stumbled upon this site when searching for updates on "Skien Brygge".
Still lurkin'....:)

Welcome :)

Welcome :)
Seconded.

We also need some updates from Grenland/skien so buy yourself a camera if you don't already have one.
:)

We also need some updates from Grenland/skien so buy yourself a camera if you don't already have one.
:)

Lol, starting an account in this forum is no joke! :lol:

From Asker
Live in Oslo
34
Studied urban planning
Work in Oslo kommune
Interested in Oslo planning and history
Found SSC by searching for something (don't remember what), and then discovered the Norway threads.

I'm born in Trondheim, been living here all my life. I'm 38 years old, working with logistics in retail. I have a great fascination with highrises, and thats why I joined this forum.
I also love gothic arcitecture, and of course Nidarosdomen is my favourite...

Ok, so I finally decided to write some words about myself. I am a man, 39 years of age. I grew up and now live in Trondheim, although I lived for 10 years in Stavanger in my grown life. I was educated at NTNU and work in an oil company as an engineer, specifically with drilling and wells technology.

My interests with city development and architecture has gradually grown larger for the past few years. I have a fascination for big cities and enjoy the impulses of new urban environments when travelling.

I'm from Bergen, and I live in Nesttun in Bergen. I'm 17 years old/young and I'm studying media and communications. Not a super-active poster, but I'm checking for updates a few times every day. :)

Grew up in a small village outside Storsteinnes in Balsfjord in Troms. Have also lived one year on Svalbard (which is where my father has worked practically his whole life). I moved to Tromsø two years ago so I could start on the university there. I study to become a radiographic technologist, and have 1 year left.

My interests are for example tennis, computers (& gaming) and city- and transportation development.

Just introducing myself, over from the UK forum. Just wanted to send my condolences regarding todays attacks. I love Norway, you guys get so much right which my own country gets so wrong.

Nobody deserves this.

^^ thank you for the support. Support, both among the Norwegian people and the international community is always very important in times like this when fear and anger takes over. This is a small country, was just downtown Trondheim to help someone out moving and i tell you its never been so dead and quiet on a Friday evening.

Hi,

Aviation enthusiast, Living in Western Norway.

^^ That's interesting. Where in Western Norway do you live, and what brought you here? :)

22 year old student of Landscape Architecture in the UK!

25 år og bor i Oslo. Studerer master i arkitektur på AHO. Oslopatriot og urbanist.

I guess I should probably introduce myself too, as I'm starting to post a bit more (hopefully).

I'm 22 years old from Lillehammer, but currently studying in Manchester, UK. Always been interested in cities, and have a real passion for developing beautiful places that are great for people to live, work and enjoy (a bit idealistic I know ;) ). Therefore I am more concerned with the city and urban structure as a whole, and spaces in between the buildings. Architecture is obviously a part of the bigger picture however, and also something which lies close to my heart. I just finished a BA in City and Regional Development, and commencing a Graduate Diploma in Landscape Design this year, with the aim of doing a Masters in Urban Design.

Been lurking on and off for a lot of years, with some random comments here and there, but hoping to get a bit more involved in the discussions, although I unfortunately can't contribute too much in terms of projects and so on!

Other interests are icehockey, football and music production/DJing, and (un)fortunately excessive partying!

Sup fellow UK student, I'm doing Town and Regional Planning in Sheffield.

Hallo to all people from Norway here and to all people who love Norway.

I'm from Croatia, spent six months this year working in Norway (Trondheim and Tromsø).

Norway is beautifull and I fell in love at once.

Hope that I will come back again in near future.

That's all for now, bye, bye. :cheers: :cheers:

Hello there,
I am from Norfolk Island and i love scandinavian countries (including Faroe Islands and Iceland, where are the threads?). That's all for now :)
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^^ Iceland got it's own forum here:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2297

Not the most active of our forums though.

I didn`t notice this thread until now, honestly. I don`t feel like sharing so much info about myself, though.

But my biggest interest is music, favorite band is The Beatles, favorite song is Golden Brown, and favorite album is The Stone Roses.

Also I love bicycling, hiking, movies, reading and travelling.

Hi, I'm new on this forum. Always been interested in developments and infrastructure in cities and it's weird I haven't found this forum until the other day. Have had some late nights just reading ont his forum and I think it's great!

A little info about myself.

Used to be an electrician in the Stavanger/Sandnes area, through this job I've been on many of the construction sites mentioned in threads in the Norwegian forum. I've been working everywhere from airports, raiways, oil-rigs, industrial- and commerce-buildings.

I am now situated in Oslo where I am picking up some education.

I travel a lot around Norway.

Don't know if I'll be a active member on this forum (Writing wise), but I sure love reading all the information I find here.

^^ welcome to the forums! Btw, how exactly did you find the forum? We're just in the middle of trying to figure out how the Norway section can be easier to find to gain more members from Norway!

I have been here a while, so is about time I introduce myself. I'm a 37 year old man who was born in Oslo, but grew up and still live and work in Trondheim. I have a MSc (siv.ing.) degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in a field not directly related to the focus of this forum.

Hello fellow norwegians! :)
I am Nordicon from the sub-suburbs of Stavanger.
15 years old and enjoy skyscrapercity very much.
Grew up in China so I kind of miss the speed of development here in Norway.
So here is a nice place to see that we actually can build stuff here too. :)

^^ Welcome :)

^^ Welcome :)

Thankyou =)
As you see my join date was last year, but I'd like to be more active next year, than I've been to now

Sounds like a good nyttårsforsett ;)

^^ welcome to the forums! Btw, how exactly did you find the forum? We're just in the middle of trying to figure out how the Norway section can be easier to find to gain more members from Norway!

To be honest I found it through a picture search on google for "Det Skjeve Tårn i Jåttåvågen" when I was going to show the picture fullsize to my friend, I was directed to this forum. I think that was how, can't really remember.

^^ well, thats about what i want to know really, and it shows that writing a bit in Norwegian on this forum might help us gain more Norwegian forumers. ;)

I don't remember how I found skyscrapercity.
I was a user long before I became a member a year ago. :)

To be honest I found it through a picture search on google for "Det Skjeve Tårn i Jåttåvågen" when I was going to show the picture fullsize to my friend, I was directed to this forum. I think that was how, can't really remember.

Pure curiosity; are you really forbanna? And if so; why?

Hi, well im not a new member to this forum, and tbh i haven't been quite active on it either though i usually visit this forum everyday :)

My only wishes is to see some change in the city's in Norway. Imo there are a couple of places in the city's in this country that might look a bit depressing and i would love to see some changes on that, aswell as the roads :)

I found this forum a long time ago, so i cant really remember how i found it, but im sure i was searching for some sort of construction stuff on google and i suppose that's how i found it.

btw im from Kristiansand :D

Hello

Felt like it was about time i introduced myself since I've been a shadow meber since may last year :)

I'm a 24 yo student studying international relations at UiO, passionate about Haugesund my hometown and increasingly interested in Oslo my new "hometown". Im very interested in urban planning and arcitechture and wish we could have more highrises in our cities.

Don't really know how I found the norwegian forum, but I think I found the english one by searching for some info on Burj Khalifa.

^^ nice to see more members! Welcome to the forums, i hope you'll enjoy it here! :cheers:

Hello,

My name is Marcin. I was born in Poland, then I moved to Canada where I lived a few years and at this moment I'm doing my internship in Mexico. The reason why I decided to visit the Norwegian section of SC is because I am considering doing my masters degree in Scandinavia and I would like to know what it would be like and what kinds of things I could learn over there.

I am interested in an university which would offer a masters degree in urban planning in English (although I would love to learn Norwegian too). I am looking at Norway, Sweden and Denmark, but for some reason (can't really tell why) Norway is my first choice. So far I have found only one school which would meet my criteria - the NTNU in Trondheim with their 2-years Urban Ecological Planning. From what I have read on the website it sounds very interesting. However, I would love to get some subjective opinions from people like you. Perhaps someone here attended that university or knows someone who did? Maybe you know of other places in Norway where they offer good urban planning programs?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If you think this is not a good place to have this conversation, please let me know where I could find out more.

Thanks

ok well im 20 years old and live in kristiansand. im not norwagian and actually its been like year and a half that i been in norway and i really enjoy being here.

Welcome to everyone!:happy:

From Stavanger. Born in 1990. study Social Work at the 3. year in Stavanger, and working at BUPA. I've been sneaking on this forum since early 2004 (can't remember how i found it.. probably while searching for pictures), but deleted my old account.. and finally made a new one in march 2011.

Im a 24 year old guy, currently living in Trondheim but Ive lived most of my life in Levanger.
Currently working in the IT-business and I have a general interest in urban development, architecture and cities.
I found skyscrapercity earlier this week when I was browsing information on Miljøpakken.

Welcome to the forum :)

Welcome to both of you! :cheers:

I've never been to Norway.

hi

first of all, feel free to delete this comment, if im inappropriate

i just decided to learn norwegian, and i have a few questions
- do you have any online (or software based) options for learning the language?
- the difference between bokmal and nynorsk, is it something to be afraid of? which one should i prefer at first?

thx in advance

hi

first of all, feel free to delete this comment, if im inappropriate

i just decided to learn norwegian, and i have a few questions
- do you have any online (or software based) options for learning the language?


I haven't tried it, but how about this link? http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Learn/Norwegian.asp

And this link is supposed to be for learning the language through emails: http://norwegianlanguage.info/norword/index.html


- the difference between bokmal and nynorsk, is it something to be afraid of? which one should i prefer at first?


If you are planning on using the language, then you will probably be better of with bokmål/bokmal as that is consider the standard language most widely spoken. If you are just learning it for fun then it is probably equal and I don't think either languages is noticeable harder to learn for foreigners.

thx!

And just for the record: The differences aren't great by any means. Most people should be able to understand nynorsk even if they are only familiar with bokmål and vice versa. The differences are just some individual words and various endings to them.

Where are you from btw and what makes you want to learn our language? :)

And just for the record: The differences aren't great by any means. Most people should be able to understand nynorsk even if they are only familiar with bokmål and vice versa. The differences are just some individual words and various endings to them.

that sounds like a relief :)


Where are you from btw and what makes you want to learn our language? :)

well, knowing a language always comes as an asset

Hello from Thailand.


Thai PM with Norway PM, 9th ASEM Summit 2012

source Thai Government

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Hello! Long-time lurker here.

I'm Erlend, 21 years old from Asker, currently living in Trondheim. I've always been interested in the art of engineering, skyscrapers and big buildings in particular. At some point I decided to pursue the dream and get a degree in building physics. Currently studying on the second year (out of five) of Civil Engineering at NTNU (Bygg- og Miljøteknikk for those of you who really care about details).

At the moment, I'm not really "allowed" to use this username, seeing as the title of Kyll. Ing. is reserved for graduated students (it's kind of a long story), but I plan to stay here at least until I graduate.

Hope to see you around! The Norway subforum doesn't appear to be among the most active corners of the forum, but at least I'll add another voice to the choir.

^^ welcome! yeah, things are rather quiet here compared to a few other countries on SSC. I guess we just don't see that much development or the right kind of development to trigger the interests of more people.

Hi, I'm 18 years old and I have been reading at this forum for about 5 months, so I figured it was about time to make an account. I live in Trondheim and I'm interested in new developments all around Norway :)

^^ yay! enda en trønder! :cheers: welcome around!

^^ yay! enda en trønder! :cheers: welcome around!

Takker!

Hmm, guess I should be proper and introduce myself also. Better late than never...

Early 30s (still!), born and raised in Groruddalen in Oslo, and moved back here after a few years abroad and in other parts of Oslo. Not particularly interested in architecture itself, but like development in general and especially how we can create good conditions for human development. Ferocious nimby when it comes to my own garden, but accept that I cannot be like that and live too central, hence the self-imposed suburbian exile :)

ASL: 20/M/Stavanger

Born and raised in Stavanger, student at Universitetet i Stavanger, and never lived elsewhere in Norway. Spent a year in Canada though.

Can't remember how I originally found SSC, but it was probably sometime I was geeking around on the World Wide Webz. I've been an occasional lurker for some time. (Bestemte meg for å lage en brukerkonto nå i vinter etter at jeg møysommelig hadde lest gjennom og sett på alle bildene i mange "threads". Alt annet enn pensum er så utrolig interresant i eksamensperioden!)

Can't remember how I originally found SSC, but it was probably sometime I was geeking around on the World Wide Webz. I've been an occasional lurker for some time. (Bestemte meg for å lage en brukerkonto nå i vinter etter at jeg møysommelig hadde lest gjennom og sett på alle bildene i mange "threads". Alt annet enn pensum er så utrolig interresant i eksamensperioden!)

Oh hi! We share the same SSC Background story!

What are you studying?

Oh hi! We share the same SSC Background story!

What are you studying?

Rettsvitenskap (juss).

Ganske kult å se to Norske prosjekter oppe på ArchDaily's, The 20 Most Visited Projects of All Time (http://www.archdaily.com/341368/archdaily-5-the-20-most-visited-projects-of-all-time/)

#2. Oslo Opera House
#12. Tverrfjellhytta

Skjønner ikke hvorfor så mange har sett på prosjektet som ligger på 1. plass. Det ser ikke så veldig spesielt ut spør du meg. :dunno: Jeg hadde egentlig forventet at førsteplassen tilhørte Turning Torso, the Shard eller lignende kjente bygg ...

I love you Norway :D

Hi there. I have been to Norway and Svalbard and I am wondering why there is no thread about Svalbard!!!!

Hi there. I have been to Norway and Svalbard and I am wondering why there is no thread about Svalbard!!!!

Probably because there's not much going on in Svalbard...:lol: But I guess a thread wouldn't hurt to at least map how it looks there already

Probably because there's not much going on in Svalbard...:lol: But I guess a thread wouldn't hurt to at least map how it looks there already

Svalbard is a fantastic place. I highly recommend it to those who are into alternative tourism.:cheers:

As long as the tourists don't get eaten by polar bears. That's such bad publicity.

As long as the tourists don't get eaten by polar bears. That's such bad publicity.

Polar bears stay out of Longyearbyen and other tourist areas...^^

Off course, but when tourist go out camping by themselves in the wild, things can happen. Polarbears have quite the sense of smell, and get easily attracted to camps.

Off course, but when tourist go out camping by themselves in the wild, things can happen. Polarbears have quite the sense of smell, and get easily attracted to camps.

That's why you need riffles out there! :cheers:

^^Indeed, this (http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/04/18/nyheter/svalbard/innenriks/isbjorn/26750708/) is from yesterday..

^^Indeed, this (http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/04/18/nyheter/svalbard/innenriks/isbjorn/26750708/) is from yesterday..


Too bad that I can't read Norwegian!:ohno:

Gratulerer med dagen!
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Tusen takk. Er du norsk?

Nei, ungarsk :) men jeg skal gå til Bergen i juli & august ;)

^^That sounds like a long walk. ("gå" på norsk betyr ikke "go" på engelsk;))