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>> KHIB - Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen (National Academy of Arts in Bergen)
Location: County|Hordaland > City|Bergen

Designed by Snøhetta (http://www.snoarc.no/), the 17.500 m2 large National Academy of Arts in Bergen was approved in 2006. Construction should start in late 2007, with completion in June 2009. This project for the National Academy of Arts is located in Bergen, on the shores of lake Store Lungegårdsvann and flanked by the three mountains; Fløyen, Ulrikken and Løvstakken. The new Academy building will be situated at the foot of this powerful landscape, looking out over the lake and the distant city skyline.

In this new location the Academy will become an important generator for the new urban development of the city along the shores of the lake, and become an important icon for the cultural life of Bergen. Preserving as much as possible of the existing trees and buildings has been an important aspect of the project. Parts of the existing industrial buildings on site will be used as elements of reference, mature trees will be integrated into the large entrance plaza and the old natural stone wall facing the road on the east side of the site is to be kept as it is today.

To meet the requirements of a modern art academy and its needs to have flexible structural solutions, the program for the new Bergen School of Art is defined by zones and not by fixed rooms. These zones - flexible building structure are defined in architectural terms by a large roof structure. The roof covers both indoor and outdoor activities and defines what it encloses as the arena for art and creativity – a free zone where the boundaries of physical rooms are dependent only by artistic and creative activity.

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>> Romsdalsmuseet
Location: County|Møre og Romsdal > City|Molde

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter AS won the competition of 29 other proposals for a new building in a Romsdals museum which is soon to celebrate its 100 years anniversary. The design is inspired of the local nature, with mountains and local heritage houses made of wood. Construction will start as soon as possible, and the developers hope to have the building completed in 2012 when the 100 anniversary is celebrated here.

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>> Brattøra Hotel
Location: County|Sør Trøndelag > City|Trondheim

Designed by Space Group Architects (http://www.spacegroup.no/), a 35 000 m2 hotel and aquarium in Trondheim. The hotel has 400 rooms and will be one of the largest conference hotels in Scandinavia. The conference facilities include a congress/culture hall for 2000 people. Next to the hotel is a public park covering the 400 cars parking garage which serves the hotel, aquarium and the existing swimming hall, Pirbadet which is the largest indoor swimming hall in Scandinavia. This 500 million kroner project will start construction in March 2008 with completion schedule October 2009.

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>> Nye Holmenkollen
Location: County|Oslo > City|Oslo

The Danish architects of JDS/Julien de Smedt won the competition for the new Oslo Holmenkollen ski jump. JDS' proposed ski jump, called "Nye Holmenkollen Fyr," features an open terrace at the top, which will offer a 360-degree view of the city, the fjord, and the surrounding hills and forests known as marka. The terrace will be heated, keeping it free of snow and open year-round. The building under the jump will be pushed back into the hill, giving more room for the arena and landing area.

The new ski jump has had a budget of around NOK 500 million. The state has offered NOK 100 million to help foot the bill, much less than the city had wanted. Oslo officials hoped the state would at least pay half the cost. It's now up to the City Council to approve JDS' design, before construction can begin as soon as the existing ski jump is torn down, probably late next spring. The new jump needs to be ready in 2010, a year before the Nordic World Championships are to be held in Oslo in 2011.

The ski museum at Holmenkollen, meanwhile, will remain open during the entire construction process. The state and private interests are funding an addition to the museum and the building of a new entrance, to receive visitors who make the trek up the hill from town. The ski museum has been attracting more than 300,000 visitors a year, while the ski jump itself also has long ranked as among Norway's top 10 tourist attractions.

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>> JazzHouse
Location: County|Møre og Romsdal > City|Molde

The Danish architect firm, 3XN won the competition for a new Jazz and theatre building in Molde. The JazzHouse, inspired of Oslo Opera House will be completed to the 50 year anniversary of MoldeJazz in 2010. Entire complex will have a area on 11 000sqm, this inclusing a parking garage and a residential building. The Jazz and theatre building alone will have a area on 6 000sqm.

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>> O.C. Østraadt Havnefront
Location: County|Rogaland > City|Sandnes

LinkSignatur AS with a proposal of building 60 000sqm of apartments at Sandnes harbour. With several low-rise buildings with big green spaces in between, and 4 taller 9 to 10 floor tall buildings facing the fjord. O.C. Østraadt Havnefront is located close to downtown Sandnes, where there are several larger harbour sites been redeveloped into residential usages.

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>> Siriskjær
Location: County|Rogaland > City|Stavanger

This is the winning design at the Norwegian Wood competition at the Siriskjær site at Stavanger harbour, which is undergoing a large reconstruction from industrial to commercial and residential livinghood. 83 teams from around the world signed up to the competition at this site, of them narrowed down to 20 competitiors. The winning design was announed in November 2006, awarded the Danish A.A.R.T. (http://www.aart.dk/) + the Norwegian STUDIO LUDO (http://www.studioludo.no/) team for winning design with their proposal, "Innanfor Utanfor".

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>> Langeland Gård
Location: County|Hordaland > City|Langeland

A small residential project in Langeland (close to Bergen) with 16 houses/ 24 apartments. LinkSignatur AS (http://www.link-signatur.no) is the architect firm behind the project which started construction in late 2004. First apartment will be finished 1 quarter of 2006, while the whole project will be completed in 2007.

PDF map (2MB) (http://www.terranor.com/pdf/illustrasjonsplan_Langeland_03_11_04.pdf)

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>> Alvarstraumen
Location: County|Hordaland > City|Alvarstraumen

A residential project in Alvarstramen in Lindås Kommune. Project by LinkSignatur AS, a 4 floor tall residential building with 31 apartments next to the fjord, or Alvarstramen, which is a strong fjord current passing by the residential project.

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>> Nytt Kultursenter i Kristiandsand (Kristiansand Performing Arts Centre)
Location: County|Vest Agder > City|Kristiansand

The Performing Arts Centre in Kristiansand is designed by the Finnish architect firm ALA Architects (http://www.ala-a.com). The 30 000sqm large building is going to have a concert hall with 1300 seats, a theatre hall with 700 seats, some offices and restaurants and a underground parking garage with a capacity of 400 cars.

With a budged on 130 million Euro this project was approved in 2005, as it won the competition where 93 architect firms from all around the world had delivered their proposal to the new performing arts centre in Southern Norway's regional capital, Kristiansand.

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>> Kulturhistorisk Museum i Bjørvika
Location: County|Oslo > City|Oslo

Designed by Space Group (http://www.spacegroup.no/), a project by Statsbygg (http://www.statsbygg.no/). A new cultural and historic museum in Bjørvika, near downtown Oslo.

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>> Floating Windmills
Location: The North Sea

Hydro has developed a new concept with floating windmills far out in the North Sea. These windmills can be built on places where the ocean floor is as deep as 700m, and where its more windy than on coastal areas. A new park of 200 windmills is been planned built. This park can produce about 4 TWh in a year. That will enpower 200 000 Norwegian houses!

Each windmill will be about 200m tall, where half of that is above surface. The rotor diameter will be around 120m. Hydro hopes to have a smaller version completed by the end of 2007. If this testing projects goes well, they hope to have the park completed in 10 to 15 years.

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>> Hardangerbrua
Location: County|Hordaland > City|Ulvik/Eidfjord

The longest suspension bridge in Norway, and one of the 10 longest in the world by span. Hardangerbrua was approved in 2006, ten years after it was cancelled the first time. Construction of the bridge will start in early 2009, while the construction of the tunnels leading to the bridge was started in March 2007. When the bridge is completed in early 2012 it will be 1380m long, with the main span been 1 310m long (30m longer than the main span of Golden Gate in San Francisco. With the longest span in Norway, and one of the tallest towers, two 186m tall bridge tower this project is not going to be cheap. Total cost is estimated to around 1.9 billion kroner, thats without the 2.4km of tunnel leading out to the bridge and another 0.8km of road needed to be built.

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>> Hålogalandsbrua
Location: County|Nordland > City|Narvik/Øyjord

Hålogalandsbrua is a proposed bridge in Nordland county. If built, this bridge will shorten E6 with 55km, which today goes whole the way around Rombaksfjorden just north of the city of Narvik. With a span on 1.345m it will go in as the 7th longest suspension bridge in the world, and as the longest in Norway. Project cost is estimated to 1.5 billion NOK, and they hope to have the entire project read for approval in 2008. If approved we might see this bridge completed by 2012. COWI (http://www.cowi.no/)'s office in Trondheim, Narvik and in Denmark has been signed to make the proposal ready for 2008.

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>> Nordlyskatedralen (The Northern Light Cathedral)
Location: County|Finnmark > City|Alta

Nordlyskatedralen, or "The Northern Light Cathedral" as in English was finally approved in January 2007, after many years been proposed and reproposed due to financial problems. The 2 700m2 large cathedral is designed by LinkSignatur AS (http://www.link-signatur.no) and the construction is expecied to start in the summer of 2008, with completion in 2010.

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Very cool projects here!

Dagbladet release some proposals of the new Holmenkollen in Oslo

Dagbladet.no has released a few renderings from some proposals to the new Holmenkollen in Oslo. 104 proposals has been presented, which will be put out for public viewing in August, then one will be elected by the Oslo city council in September.

The current stadium will be torn down, and the new stadium will be finished by 2010. The current stadium was built to the Oslo Olympics in 1952, and has a spectator record on 101 600!

Edited in September, the winning design.
Here's the new Holmenkollen
A jury formed to select the winning design for Oslo's new ski jump at Holmenkollen recommended on Tuesday that the city award the job to a Danish architectural firm. It beat out a long list of other candidates to build what's considered one of Norway's leading landmarks.

Copenhagen-based JDS Architects won the unanimous support of the jury set up by the city to choose the design of the new ski jump. It was praised for the "purity" of its lines, and public space at the top of the jump that will allow visitors to experience much the same as the ski jumpers do themselves.

JDS bills itself as a "multidisciplinary office" that focuses on architecture and design from large-scale planning to furniture. The firm was founded and is directed by Julien de Smedt, a Belgian architect now living in Copenhagen.

JDS' proposed ski jump, called "Nye Holmenkollen Fyr," features an open terrace at the top, which will offer a 360-degree view of the city, the fjord, and the surrounding hills and forests known as marka. The terrace will be heated, keeping it free of snow and open year-round.

The building under the jump will be pushed back into the hill, giving more room for the arena and landing area.

The new ski jump has had a budget of around NOK 500 million. The state has offered NOK 100 million to help foot the bill, much less than the city had wanted. Oslo officials hoped the state would at least pay half the cost.

It's now up to the City Council to approve JDS' design, before construction can begin as soon as the existing ski jump is torn down, probably late next spring. The new jump needs to be ready in 2010, a year before the Nordic World Championships are to be held in Oslo in 2011.

The ski museum at Holmenkollen, meanwhile, will remain open during the entire construction process. The state and private interests are funding an addition to the museum and the building of a new entrance, to receive visitors who make the trek up the hill from town. The ski museum has been attracting more than 300,000 visitors a year, while the ski jump itself also has long ranked as among Norway's top 10 tourist attractions.

Ha ha, I have actually been there and seen most of the proposals.:) But I was thrown out be Gary Bates, the juryleader! :lol: :lol: :lol:


You can see him here, he is THE MAN IN BLACK in the picture

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He said:
- Who are you!?

I said:
- I`m here representing Skyscrapercity, S&B region that is.. I need some inside information to our Oslo/Norway threads!

He said:
- Skyscraper? Are you one of the fuckers wanting highrises in Oslo? Sorry you can`t be here. We don`t want your kind here! Actually we don`t want you in Norway at all! Get the hell out of here, NOW!!!
etc etc

So, then I had to leave. But I got to see which proposals the jurymembers had put their post-it with names on ;)

Simply wow! Damn cool projects and superb architecture. Way to go Norway :okay:

Ha ha, I have actually been there and seen most of the proposals.:) But I was thrown out be Gary Bates, the juryleader! :lol: :lol: :lol:

He said:
- Skyscraper? Are you one of the fuckers wanting highrises in Oslo? Sorry you can`t be here. We don`t want your kind here! Actually we don`t want you in Norway at all! Get the hell out of here, NOW!!!
etc etc

Lol, really? Damn, he must been having a really bad day at work!

Nice projects, but I see now 'high rises'

Nice projects, but I see no 'high rises'

Read the intro on the first post, high-rise projects have its own thread. Click the link there and you'll see some of Norway's high-rise projects.

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He said:
- Skyscraper? Are you one of the fuckers wanting highrises in Oslo? Sorry you can`t be here. We don`t want your kind here! Actually we don`t want you in Norway at all! Get the hell out of here, NOW!!!
etc etc

So, then I had to leave. But I got to see which proposals the jurymembers had put their post-it with names on ;)

um, you should sue the bastard.

Dagbladet release some proposals of the new Holmenkollen in Oslo

Dagbladet.no has released a few renderings from some proposals to the new Holmenkollen in Oslo. 104 proposals has been presented, which will be put out for public viewing in August, then one will be elected by the Oslo city council in September.

The current stadium will be torn down, and the new stadium will be finished by 2010. The current stadium was built to the Oslo Olympics in 1952, and has a spectator record on 101 600!

Maybe Holmenkollen will look like this in 2010?
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http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/5/50/505/505916/HolmenkollenX20PlansjeX2003_1184129565_1184129582.jpg

http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/5/50/505/505916/HolmenkollenX20PlansjeX2005_1184129565_1184129582.jpg

http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/5/50/505/505916/HolmenkollenX20PlansjeX2006_1184129565_1184129581.jpg

http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/5/50/505/505916/HolmenkollenX20PlansjeX2007_1184129565_1184129582.jpg

http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/5/50/505/505916/HolmenkollenX20PlansjeX2009_1184129566_1184129582.jpg

http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/5/50/505/505916/HolmenkollenX20PlansjeX2012_1184129566_1184129582.jpg

http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/5/50/505/505916/HolmenkollenX20PlansjeX2013_1184129566_1184129582.jpg

http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/5/50/505/505916/HolmenkollenX20PlansjeX2015_1184129566_1184129582.jpg

http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/5/50/505/505916/HolmenkollenX20PlansjeX2016_1184129566_1184129582.jpg

I hope to present all the proposals in August when they come public!

It rocks.. :cheers:

Great designs on many of the project. However I must note that the Kunsthøyskolen in Bergen has been slightly redesigned and delayed due to financial issues. Tried to find the new render, but there are no major changes in the look and feel fortunately. :)

Edit: Forgot to mention that the layout by the threadmaker is excellent and truly and example to be followed!

Great designs on many of the project. However I must note that the Kunsthøyskolen in Bergen has been slightly redesigned and delayed due to financial issues. Tried to find the new render, but there are no major changes in the look and feel fortunately. :)

Edit: Forgot to mention that the layout by the threadmaker is excellent and truly and example to be followed!

As far as i know the renderings i posted is the new renderings or the new design (publiched some 2 months ago), or have they changed it yet again sometime during the last two months that i don't know of?

And thanks, will try to update many more projects as time comes and goes. :)

>> JazzHouse
Location: County|Møre og Romsdal > City|Molde

The Danish architect firm, 3XN won the competition for a new Jazz and theatre building in Molde. The JazzHouse, inspired of Oslo Opera House will be completed to the 50 year anniversary of MoldeJazz in 2010. Entire complex will have a area on 11 000sqm, this inclusing a parking garage and a residential building. The Jazz and theatre building alone will have a area on 6 000sqm.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus4small.jpg
>> Enlarge (1191x842 | 342kB) (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus4.jpg)

More renderings, click to enlarge!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus3mini.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus3.jpg) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus2mini.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus2.jpg) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus5mini.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus5.jpg) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus6mini.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus6.jpg)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus7mini.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus7.jpg) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus8mini.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus8.jpg) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus1mini.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus1.jpg) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus9mini.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Norway/MoldeJazzhus9.jpg)

Jazzhus i operastil
Det danske arkitektkontoret 3XN vant konkurransen om et nytt jazz- og teaterhus i Molde. Vinneren er nettopp presentert på en pressekonferanse.

Bygget skal stå klart til 50-årsjubileet for Moldejazz i 2010. Bygget får en form som gir mange assosiasjoner til det nye operahuset i Bjørvika. Juryen var dermed enig med dem som hadde stemt i vår uhøytidelige meningsmåling her på Rbnett - og alternativet "Plassen" gikk til topps. Juryen var enstemmig i avgjørelsen. Festivalsjef for Moldejazz, Jan Ole Otnæs, sier til nyhetsbyrået NTB at bygget vil bli et framtidig senter for Moldejazz, med fire innen- og utendørs scener. I tillegg får festivaladministrasjonen nye, tidsmessige lokaler og kommer under samme tak som flere andre kulturinstitusjoner.

Kulturdelen av bygget blir på 6.000 kvadratmeter og får en prislapp på vel 350 millioner kroner inkludert et parkeringsanlegg. I tillegg kommer en boligdel, slik at det totale arealet blir på 11.000 kvadratmeter.

- Gratulerer med dagen
Festivalsjef for Moldejazz, Jan Ole Otnæs, sier til nyhetsbyrået NTB at bygget vil bli et framtidig senter for Moldejazz, med fire innen- og utendørs scener. I tillegg får festivaladministrasjonen nye, tidsmessige lokaler og kommer under samme tak som flere andre kulturinstitusjoner.

-Jeg vil gjerne gratulere alle med dagen, fordet er virkelig noe å feire. Dette har vi jobbet lenge for, og vi gleder oss. Vinneren gir oss et fantastisk utgangspunkt til å utvikle byen videre, sa Jan Ole Otnæs under offentliggjøringa. Juryen besto av Kjell J. Vatne, Ola Bettum, Lars Haukeland, Jan Ole Otnæs, Eldbjørg Heimen Stenseth og Arne Strømme.

- Operahus
Jurylederen, sivilarkitekt Kjell Vatne, sier til NTB at mange assosierer det nye jazz- og teaterhuset med operaen i Bjørvika. – Vi i juryen har ikke tenkt slik. Vi har lagt vekt på at bygget er kompakt og gir en god arealøkonomi. Det åpner for flere muligheter både inne og ute. Det åpner opp i stedet for å lukke igjen, og gir dermed en god kontakt både med sentrum og med fjellene bakenfor. Vatne mener "Plassen" er det alternativet som passer best, ikke minst fordi det er plassert i det nord-østlige hjørnet av tomta.

- Formålet har vært å finne det alternativet som hadde den mest fremtidsretta løsninga, og som landskapsmessig passer inn i et urbant miljø. "Plassen" utnytter arealet godt, spesielt siden taket gir adgang til utsikt over byen, og kan bli brukt som ei flott utendørsscene, sier Vatne.

Extremely cool projects. Very impressive.
All high class with an understated elegance and reflective of the subdued Scandinavian temperment. Quality, not quantity is the byword. I wish this were the case in more places around the world.
Great thread. Thanks for posting Qazaq.

>> Romsdalsmuseet
Location: County|Møre og Romsdal > City|Molde

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter AS won the competition of 29 other proposals for a new building in a Romsdals museum which is soon to celebrate its 100 years anniversary. The design is inspired of the local nature, with mountains and local heritage houses made of wood. Construction will start as soon as possible, and the developers hope to have the building completed in 2012 when the 100 anniversary is celebrated here.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/cityw/Norge/Romsdalsmuseet1small.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/cityw/Norge/Romsdalsmuseet2.jpg


Seier til Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter AS vant arkitektkonkurransen om nytt hovedbygg ved Romsdalsmuséet i Molde.

Seier til Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter AS i den prestisjetunge arkitektkonkurransen vedrørende Romsdalsmuséets nye hovedbygg i Molde. Romsdalsmuseets plassering i Molde er unikt. "Museet i byen - byen i museet" fordrer stor åpenhet overfor museets brukere og besøkende. Ved å oppføre nybygget på en måte der slik åpenhet blir tilrettelagt, kan museumsbygningen også skape seg en plass i folks bevisthet og dagligliv. Stedets enestående skjønnhet har vært en stor inspirasjon for prosjektforslaget.

Det nye bygget, som blant annet skal inneholde magasin, auditorium, administrasjonslokaler og kafé, får en kostnadsramme på cirka 100 millioner kroner.

Når byggearbeidet kommer i gang er ennå ikke bestemt, men målet er å få det på plass til 2012 når museet har 100-årsjubileum. Det nye bygget skal stå der det nåværende er plassert.

I utgangspunktet meldte 29 arkitektfirmaer sin interesse for å delta. Juryen besto av styreleder Anders Talleraas, museumsdirektør Jarle Sanden og Eivind Bjørbekk i Norske Arkitekters Landsforbund. Vurderingen foregikk anonymt.

Hardangerbrua halted

Construction of Hardangerbrua (The longest suspension bridge in Norway) has been stopped due to costs. Construction of the bridge was about to start, as the nearby roads of tunnels was under construction. The construction costs has increased by 38% compared to the original plan. Both construction of the bridge and roads/tunnels has been halted.

A new tender will be run in 2008, if this goes weill the construction might be resumed in a year, or in 2009. Completion of the bridge will not happend untill earliest 2012.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/cityx/Architecture/Hardangerbrua1.jpg

Since when was money a problem in Norway!? :lol:

Since when was money a problem in Norway!? :lol:

Money is always a Big problem when we put all our wealthy money in a fund we can't use anything from! ;)

Money is always a Big problem when we put all our wealthy money in a fund we can't use anything from! ;)


I find that to be very strange, I'm pretty sure that wouldn't have been the case in Sweden if we would have had those funds.
A lot would have gone inte infrastructure, sience, health care, education and stuff. Of course we would have saved money too but to me it seems like Norway only saves and saves and saves and saves.
Don't you trust yourself in the future?
Or am I wrong? Do you spend a lot of your oil money on your country and it's citizens?

^alot of the oilmoney is spent too, but the problem is that if too much is spent, we'll get too high inflation. The economy is stressed enough as it is, and there is no unemployed people. The construction sector is really bad, entrepeneurs are turning down jobs because they have too much to do, and the work that is done is often done bad and/or not finished. We've experienced this at my workplace, where we are renovating. This should take two months according to plan, but has now taken a year soon, because the workers are off to other jobs that they have to finish all the time, and when they are "finished" there is alot of work left and they have messed things up(a child could have done it better), so we have to hire new folks to correct what the others didn't do etc....

Since when was money a problem in Norway!? :lol:

Yes this is the first time I here someone say Norwegians don't have enough money. But... we are talking about a gigantic bridge from tunnel to tunnel in the middle of nowere:lol:

^alot of the oilmoney is spent too, but the problem is that if too much is spent, we'll get too high inflation. The economy is stressed enough as it is, and there is no unemployed people. The construction sector is really bad, entrepeneurs are turning down jobs because they have too much to do, and the work that is done is often done bad and/or not finished. We've experienced this at my workplace, where we are renovating. This should take two months according to plan, but has now taken a year soon, because the workers are off to other jobs that they have to finish all the time, and when they are "finished" there is alot of work left and they have messed things up(a child could have done it better), so we have to hire new folks to correct what the others didn't do etc....

I have a better idea. Spend the money on the development of alternative energy and give yourself the nobel peace price.

We practicly don't use oilmoney at all. A thumb-rule for Norwegian economy is that no more than 4 % of the income of oil-stuff should be spent in a year. This year that would've been somewhere around 45 billion NOK. In spite of that, only 3 billion oil-crowns were included in the national budget.:nuts: And now the political parties in the government want to raise our taxes.:ohno:

Northstar is correct here. This is basic economy. The amount of money you got doesnt mean anything. Its all about have many workers you have in a country. In Norway everybody is already working, if we put more money into the economy, we wont get more done, we`ll just have to pay more for the same work. If two neighbours want to hire an eletrician, it is smart for one of them to wait. If they compete for the eletrician, they just have to pay more in salary.

Or, if your car have full tank, it doesnt drive longer or faster if you have gasolin in your garage..

I think its smart to wait with the Hardangerbridge, because we have more important projects to do!

Northstar is correct here. This is basic economy. The amount of money you got doesnt mean anything. Its all about have many workers you have in a country. In Norway everybody is already working, if we put more money into the economy, we wont get more done, we`ll just have to pay more for the same work. If two neighbours want to hire an eletrician, it is smart for one of them to wait. If they compete for the eletrician, they just have to pay more in salary.

Or, if your car have full tank, it doesnt drive longer or faster if you have gasolin in your garage..

I think its smart to wait with the Hardangerbridge, because we have more important projects to do!

Yepp!! And therefore you should spend the money on the development of alternative energy and give yourself the nobel peace price! And send some money to the poor people around the world as well!!

Yepp!! And therefore you should spend the money on the development of alternative energy and give yourself the nobel peace price! And send some money to the poor people around the world as well!!

Who says we`re not? ;) We are actually giving away a lot of money. We could probably do more in developing alternative energy, but we are not bad either. The worlds biggest company in producing/developing solar cells is the norwegian company REC. We also have many projects on offshore windmills.

Yepp you are doing well. But we (=in the rest of the worl) should have high expectations on Norway since it is the richest country in the world. It's funny that while some countries have problems with poverty... Some oil countries like Norway has so much money that they even can't spend all their money...:nuts:

Anyway. We are perhaps of topic here;)

Took some pics of some projects from Jåttå / Stavanger today:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7384/jtt0wr6.th.jpg (http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jtt0wr6.jpg)

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/4739/jtt1tk1.th.jpg (http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jtt1tk1.jpg)

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7003/jtt2lc1.th.jpg (http://img223.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jtt2lc1.jpg)

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/2784/jtt3kn1.th.jpg (http://img402.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jtt3kn1.jpg)

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/8053/jtt4vd9.th.jpg (http://img502.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jtt4vd9.jpg)

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/2488/jtt5sw1.th.jpg (http://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jtt5sw1.jpg)

^ Thanks for sharing, Hinna brygge looks good, and the first Fjordspeilet is soon completed. :)

Stad Skipstunnel gets approved by Kystverket
Stad Skipstunnel has been approved by Kystverket which means it might be completed by 2014. 90% of all the ship traffic will go through this tunnel, passing the Stat area, the most dangerous shipping rout in Norway which have claimed many lifes through the years. The tunnel will be 1800m long passing under a penninsula with 500m tall mountains above. Price is estimated to around 2 billion NOK.

The worlds first shipping tunnel will become a tourist attraction, something Hurtigruten (Norwegian Coastal Express Cruices) will earn good of and the local area.

http://www.stadskipstunnel.no/forside/bilde1.jpg

http://www.stadskipstunnel.no/bilder_artikler/seilingsh800_NW.jpg

Took some pics of some projects from Jåttå / Stavanger today:

Thanks for updates! We need more stuff from Rogaland/Stavanger ;)


Stad Skipstunnel gets approved by Kystverket
Stad Skipstunnel has been approved by Kystverket which means it might be completed by 2014. 90% of all the ship traffic will go through this tunnel, passing the Stat area, the most dangerous shipping rout in Norway which have claimed many lifes through the years. The tunnel will be 1800m long passing under a penninsula with 500m tall mountains above. Price is estimated to around 2 billion NOK.

The worlds first shipping tunnel will become a tourist attraction, something Hurtigruten (Norwegian Coastal Express Cruices) will earn good of and the local area.

This is so cool! I guess they have to be sober when they navigate the ships thru the tunnel:lol:

Stad Skipstunnel gets approved by Kystverket
Yeah yeah, keep on with whatever they're doing up there..:nuts: Hehe... No, it's a fancy project. I lack the big knowledge of boat traffic to judge how great the news is, but... it's probably great! Norway leads on. Next: The Panama-tunnel!

@vadmyra: Thanks for Stavanger-pics! That is going to be a hell of a borrow when it's done! Looking good!

Btw, here is a few pics from the recently completed new fire-station to 300 million NOK in Bergen.

http://www.sh-arkitekter.no/bilder/2007/10/416.jpg

http://www.sh-arkitekter.no/bilder/2007/10/2HB.jpg http://www.sh-arkitekter.no/bilder/2007/10/3HB.jpg

http://www.sh-arkitekter.no/bilder/2007/10/6HB.jpg http://www.sh-arkitekter.no/bilder/2007/10/7HB.jpg

The winning proposal which was elected was looking like this:
http://www.bergen.kommune.no/brannvesenet/Hovedstasjonen_web.jpg

Some more pics from me, these from Stavanger / Forus:

This proposed building:

http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00192/forus_jpg_192085i.jpg

Will be buildt to the left of these buildings (the 100m tall Fønix building will be about 150m to the right):

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/1941/bybilder003xa0.th.jpg (http://img107.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bybilder003xa0.jpg)

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/3770/bybilder002ld6.th.jpg (http://img47.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bybilder002ld6.jpg)


http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/1955/bybilder005ar0.th.jpg (http://img404.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bybilder005ar0.jpg)

Seabrokers invest owns these buildings and all the new projects that will be buildt on this property. These projects was buildt in no time and there are people working 24/7 on new projects here. The pics was taken on sunday and you can see people working non stop.

Another Seabrokers project about 200m away from the rest of the buildings:

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/7827/bybilder008xg4.th.jpg (http://img107.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bybilder008xg4.jpg)

^ Cool, and then we get possible 110m Bryggeriparken a littl to the east, and hopefully a even taller WTC somewhere there too!

Btw, your post should have been posted in the "All new Norwegian highrises" thread. :)

Post a copy in that thread instead. ;)

http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00192/forus_jpg_192085i.jpg


I appreciate the boldness of the design, but there's a lot of work to be done on that proposal, it looks very amateurish, are they professional? :lol:

I appreciate the boldness of the design, but there's a lot of work to be done on that proposal, it looks very amateurish, are they professional? :lol:

Its aprofessional architect firm behind, with both offices in Norway and Denmark. They was awarded as 3rd in the New Holmenkollen competition a few months ago. The company consist of older professional architects (with experience from North America and Asia), and young creative architects, so its a perfect mix! ;)

Its aprofessional architect firm behind, with both offices in Norway and Denmark. They was awarded as 3rd in the New Holmenkollen competition a few months ago. The company consist of older professional architects (with experience from North America and Asia), and young creative architects, so its a perfect mix! ;)

Really? For me it looks like they drew a box and then took a glass or something round and randomly but it on the box and then drew round holes :)
When I was a child I made houses like that! ;)

Wasn't there a 'Bergen Development Tread' around here somewhere? I Can't find it now. Anyone know where it is?

Edit: Never mind. I found it.

Btw, here is a few pics from the recently completed new fire-station to 300 million NOK in Bergen.

http://www.sh-arkitekter.no/bilder/2007/10/416.jpg


I think the new fire-station in Bergen looks great. It seems to me there are few projects in Bergen, but when they build something the quality is very good!

Many new renderings and proposals was published yesterday for the development area at Levanger Havn. Its a larger sized development area for a rather smaller city with 8 681 inhabitants. The project also includes two high-rise proposals.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/Poster2small.jpg

I let the Cheese pass since it's special.

Do you see the similarities between the rendering above and this building hehe. It's a copy...

http://www.bizzbook.com/hamnen/bilder/hus/kajplats01.jpg

Yeah, its a copy! The proposals are not final as you can see, as they have presented two different ideas. :)

Btw, nice finding safta20! :D

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter AS winner of new Tønsberg City hall & NAV-Centre.

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter AS won a architectural competition for the new Tønsberg City Hall & NAV-Centre in January. Its either this 10 floor tall proposed building, or a proposal of rehabilitation of the old buildings which will go through. The city council will make a final decission sometime this spring.

http://www.arkitektur.no/?nid=158287&lcid=1044&iid=173520&pid=10006.-20201&r_n_d=4600_&adjust=1&x=535&bgc=255255255

The other 4 proposals. Don't know which architect firm made which proposals, but this is the involed architect firms:


Arkitektene 3XN AS (Denmark)
L2 arkitekter (Norway)
A-lab (Norway)
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter AS (Norway) Winning Design
Henning Larsen Architects (Denmark)


http://www.tonsberg.kommune.no/cms/mm.nsf/lupgraphics/Alternativ_1.jpg/$file/Alternativ_1.jpg

http://www.tonsberg.kommune.no/cms/mm.nsf/lupgraphics/Alternativ_2.jpg/$file/Alternativ_2.jpg

http://www.tonsberg.kommune.no/cms/mm.nsf/lupgraphics/Alternativ_4.jpg/$file/Alternativ_4.jpg

http://www.tonsberg.kommune.no/cms/mm.nsf/lupgraphics/alternativ_5.jpg/$file/alternativ_5.jpg

^^They went for the tallest proposal. Hmm, strange..

Here is a park by Todd Saunders to be constructed this year in Sarpsborg. The lookout tower is 50 m high.

http://www.saunders.no/img_pro_06_01.jpg


http://www.saunders.no/img_pro_06_02.jpg

We have been commissioned to design a park at the entrance of Norway coming from Sweden. This park will be one of the first places travelers will stop when entering Norway. The park is surrounded by a long wall composed of cortain steel on the outside and wood on the inside surface. The wall encompasses a 2000m2 space, making it into a quiet park. The wall continues to the surround the park and then rises 50m in the air to form a tower. The tower is just a simple stair. On top one will be able to see the Oslo fjord

Pity, i wish it would be that high!

Actually, the road-rest area "tower" will only be 27m. So the view will hardly be spectacular as trees will probably block it. Some local politicians wanted to put a 10m high statue off a famous wall-painting "Begby-mannen" with his eregated penis on top off it too, but it didn't get approved. At this point, the towers future is unclear, funds lack and construction prices are high so they don't have enough money to build in an elevator, but the principles off "universal utforming" requires acces for wheelchair-users so there's a possibility it will be build without stairs to =P The whole idea is stupid with such a low tower on low grounds...
Article in Norwegian: http://www.sa.no/lokale_nyheter/article3316510.ece

^ hm, thats sucks, so how many will actually stop there when i don't see anything special to stop for?

The Tønsberg City hall & NAV-Centre:

Looks to me that the different proposals are at different locations? Does anyone have some more renderings or plans?

^ This is the only thing i found in Tønsberg Kommuner's homepages and NAL's pages. Since this competition was anonymous they haven't published too many details about each proposal. Might find something in a well-hidden PDF document though! :)

Old local newspaper article: They are in the location, only some of theme also use the town square, but the winner is not. The building costs are to high for the budget and a decission will be made in march!
All proposals:http://tb.no/article/20071030/NYHETER/710300019
News: http://tb.no/article/20080129/NYHETER/230812580

A proposal from the local planning office for a new townplan for Bodø center allows for several highrises up too 17 floors ;P They've got the spirit! Some more illustrations in this article:
http://www.an.no/nyheter/article3368887.ece
http://gfx.api.no/image-versions/www.an.no/510x510r/01741/1203719041033_3403988237_1741029510x510r.jpg
The 13-floor Sas-hotell also gets the go-ahead to rise 4 floors!

A few other high-rise news from Norway: A high-rise is proposed in a waterfront project in Tønsberg:
http://multimedia.api.no/www.oyene.no/dynamic/01749/640-Kaldnes-perspe_1749166m.jpg
http://www.oyene.no/nyheter/article3378639.ece

Stjordal towns planning council approves plans for a 12-floor signal-building next to the townhall. Good thinking=)
http://www.bladet.no/nyheter/article3378287.ece

The planning director in Sandvika has recieved a ordered high-rise rapport with various locations and scenarios for high-rises upp to 70m, and the debate is on. Bærum muncipality has a history off declining high-rises, so i don't know what to think off it. The most radical scenario shows 7 70 m buildings aligned:
http://www.budstikka.no/multimedia/archive/00123/19034_1_jpg_123373f.jpg
http://www.budstikka.no/sec_nyheter/article166760.ece

Finally some further development of a old plann in Tønsberg i see!

Surprised over that high-rise planns for Stjørdal, last week i heard they were wanting it to be 7 floors tall! This is the second high-rise building been planned in Stjørdal, since there is a 13-15 floor tall proposed hotel going on at the airport as well. :)

Not sure what to think of that Sandvika proposals either, will be hard they will get through with that.

Bodø have been thinking about high-rises in many years, loads of proposals up there, but nothing goes ahead. And it will be sad if the only thing they do manage is to include 5 more floors to Radisson SAS Hotel, one of the most ugly highrise buildings in Norway!

Btw, also use the highrise-thread to post high-rise news, as this thread was ment for all other projects! :)

Sorry! I will do that next time! The hotel will probably look better with a few more floors =) And with 4-5 other high-rises close to it Bodø would get really dense!

^ Yes, but do remember Bodø has declined over 15 high-rise buildings, only the last 5-6 years! Its even worse then Bergen there!

Oh! I didn't know that they did! I was under the impression off Bodø and more high-rise friendly than most towns in the country ;P Bergen is really hopeless though! I can't believe Bergen turned down the sun-catching Mølleneset tower, it would be a great example for environmental buildings=P Maybe they would have won over Trondheim in krafttaket;P

The 27meter tower by E6 will be buildt with stairs and elevator, cost of 30 millions:
http://www.f-b.no/article/20080228/NYHET/928748042
Though i would like if they used the money on converting this 147 meter high factory chimney into the best observationtower in Norway, the view would be outstanding over the town, borregaard waterfall, fredrikstad and the archipelago, and would probably reach all the way to the mountains on clear days, not likely though! Proposal from a local architect with a huge St. Olav statue on top, most Sarpsborg-locals, and also myself - being and old Østfolding, will be sad to see the towns greatest landmark, visible from most part of the region destroyed This should be a case for the riksantikvar because the factory is mainly the reason there is a town there and represents a good deal of norwegian industrial history. Why is he never around when we need him? A new slim 130meter more environmentaly friendly steelpipe has replaced it - it came in pieces and took only a week to raise! They're planning to destroy the old chimney by april. Imagine the view from the top of this baby:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/2561666.jpg
New chimney doesn't have the same charm... =/ I would by the old one if i had the money=P
http://multimedia.api.no/www.s-a.no/dynamic/01746/20080226-163609-pi_1746728m.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/cityx/Architecture/Hardangerbrua1.jpg

Hardangerbrua should have started construction in April this year, but never did. Now its clear that it will be at least one year delayed, end of 2008 or 2009 is set to construction start. Completion has been moved to 2012.

Reason is that the department is once again questioning the costs.

Message in Norwegian:
Hardangerbrua er forsinka med ca.1 år
Samferdselsdepartementet valde å avbryte tilbodskonkurransen på tilførselsvegane til Hardangerbrua og stille krav til ein ny og avgrensa kostnadsgjennomgang for heile prosjektet.

Several architects and NTNU student's has been working on a larger visionary project in Brekstad and Bjugn. Both these places is looking ahead to a very interesting future, especially since half of the population living in the city works at Ørland Hovedflystasjon, which might dissapare in a few years. Or, if it stays they can expect a booming future, just as in recent years.

Here is some pics i've taken of some of the planns which can be seen at Ørland City Hall these days.

They have also suggested planns for the military station/airport if everything is been moved to Bodø as it looks like nowadays. That will meen the end of Ørland and much of Bjugn for sure, unless these architects ideas goes ahead!

Ørlandet, about 6000 people living on the flatland at Trondheimsfjorden's entrance.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/cityw/Trondelag/PA230265small.jpg

Closer image of the city of Brekstad.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/DSC_0098small.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/Brekstad1.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/DSC_0052small.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/DSC_0057small.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/DSC_0053small.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/DSC_0048small.jpg

Future planns for the airport.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/DSC_0063small.jpg

Then to Bjugn. Bjugn and Ørland is cooperating very closely in more or less everything. Today they have a area ni the downtown ready to be developed into residentials or other things. Bjugn just completed a really modern and fine upper secondary school, and Fosenhallen, Norway's second largest indoor skatinghall (after Vikingskipet) was completed last year.

Fosenhallen and the new Fosen VGS in the background.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/Fosenhallen1.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/DSC_0058small.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/DSC_0055small.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/DSC_0059small.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/DSC_0054small.jpg

Sorted by county. Costs are in million Norwegian kroner. Projects and projectssteps that has not started is not included(There is definatly some projects missing here tough - sorry about that... Information is from Byggeindustrien) But gives anyhow an idea of what's being buildt and where =)

Project Sq.meters Completion Costs Contractor
Oslo:
Løren nybydel 625 homes 52000 09 1100 Selvaag
Helsfyr Atrium 14 floor highrise 38000 10 650 AF Oslo
Ullevaal stadion 53000 09 550 Reinertsen
NHO Middelthunsgt. 29000 08 420 Peab
Tjuvholmen F3 157 homes 16000 08 504 Selvaag
Nye Major, 300 homes 16000 08 490 NCC

Skatteetaten Hausmannsgt 24600 08 360 Skanska
Oslo S offices Schweigaardsgt. 24900 08 356 Skanska
Tjuvholmen offices 18000 08 350 Veidekke
Hydro Vækerø 15000 09 334 Skanska
Ringnes park step 7 110 homes 22500 08 330 OKK
Ringnes park step 14-19 220homes 21500 09 324 OKK
Waldemars hage North 264 homes 28000 10 300 JM bh
Skøyenhagen 208 homes 22700 08 298 Bundebygg
Oslo Z 15000 10 294 Peab
Bertel O Steen/Mercedes 25800 08 293 AF Oslo
Sjølyststranda 210 homes 13700 08 290 Veidekke
Storo shopping mall 23000 09 250 Øie
Havnelageret Rehab. 40000 11 264 NCC
Lille Bislett 220 homes 24000 08 262 Veidekke
Økern Øav. 31 Camana offices 16000 09 250 OKK
Akersgt. 64 & 68 20000 08 242 Bundebygg
Nye Gamlebyen 200 homes 17600 10 226 Skanska
Økern torgvei 176 homes 20400 10 223 Skanska
Sjølyst Arken 14000 08 220 CM1
Tåsen school 10500 10 220 GM Backe
Gladengvn 2 offices 13500 08 217 Veidekke
Indekshuset high-rise rehab 14700 09 209 Realbygg
Oslo university informatikkbygg 28000 10 202 Reinertsen
Langerud sykehjem rehab. 14300 08 202 AF bf
Nye stovnerhjemmet 12200 08 195 AF Oslo
Nye Grønlandskvartalene 143 homes 18700 09 193 Ove Skår
Økern old alcatel. 12200 08 191 Skanska
Mortensrudhøyden 116 homes 13400 08 164 Selvaag
Elvesiden 100 homes 12000 09 155 AF Oslo
Akersgt. 51 rehab 17500 08 154 NCC
Wexels plass step 2, 148 homes 10700 09 147 Bundebygg
Verkseier Furulundsvei warehouses 11500 09 140 Bundebygg
Skøyen edmundsvei 102 homes 9700 08 137 Skanska
Coop Røa 56 homes 6100 08 126 Peab
Nye hjem Mortensrud 76 homes 10500 09 125 AF Oslo
Bjerke panorama 67 homes 9800 08 122 Bundebygg
Radiumhospitalet interior 20000 08 120 Hent
Høybråten school 7000 08 115 Skanska
Sandaker studio 132 homes 14000 08 114 OKK
Anker hotell 3300 08 112 Betonmast
Frydenberg 119 homes 9400 09 112 Skanska
Stenersgt. 8 Rehab 13500 08 110 Cito
Normannsløkka 63 homes 7500 08 103 Realbygg
Breivollvn 31 cardealer 8000 08 101 Ole Karlsen
Radiumhospitalet pasienthotell 3800 09 97 Peab
Innspurten 4 88 homes 9500 08 96 Veidekke
Oppsal & Vetland schools 5500 08 95 AF bf.
Tjuvholmen F1 piling 3200 08 92 Veidekke
Nordberg terasse 48 homes 7100 09 91 NCC
Brødr. jensen warehouse 7400 08 85 Bundebygg
Frydenberg Felt B 50 homes 6600 08 76 Skanska
Svartdalsparken 54 homes 4000 09 74 Veidekke
Årvollskogen step 3 41 homes 5700 08 73 AF Oslo
Haugerudhagen 53 homes 5300 08 71 Skanska
Nissan Østre Aker v. Cardealer 10000 09 70 NCC
Sofies Hage step 2 57 homes 5200 08 69 AF Oslo
Vålerenga Engaland 57 homes 4100 09 68 Skanska
Statsbygg PM house, and small jobs. 3000 08 68 Bundebygg
Marstrandskvartalet 54 homes 3400 08 61 Stensrud
Fuglemyra, wetrooms 2400 10 61 AF bf.
Bergkrystallen 46 homes 7200 08 60 Skanska
Brobekk Moderne Kjøling 5000 09 60 NCC
Henrik Ibsensgt. 90 rehab. 8000 08 56 GM Backe
Tøyenbadet, rehab 10000 08 56 Af Øst
Vestre haugen bosenter 6000 08 55 Multibygg
Dælenenggt. 20 54 homes 2700 08 52 Realbygg

Akershus
Mail-central Østlandsterminalen fase 1 73000 08 562 Skanska
Metrosenter shoppingmall 12000 08 507 NCC
IT Fornebu knowledgecentre 27000 09 500 Vedal
Rolfsbukta step 1 161 homes 16000 08 450 Peab
Kolbotn torg 167 homes 33000 08 456 Peab
Fornebu Arena Stadium 22000 09 429 NCC
Fornebu Storøya Grendesenter 13300 09 292 Hent
Lundekroken, Slependen 29600 09 260 AF Oslo
Son Marina hotel 13600 08 248 S. Gundersen
Victoriagården, Sandvika 99 homes 19000 08 245 Veidekke
Norges varemesse 11800 09 233 Veidekke
Romerike Healthsenter, Lillestrøm 25000 09 225 Bermingrud
Elveparken step 1, Lillestrøm 115 homes 16200 08 174 Øie
Smart Club, Vestby - Warehouse 30400 08 196 Bermingrud
Mariehaven bo og behandlingssenter 6000 08 182 Hent
Kjørboparken, Sandvika Police st. 4600 09 174 NCC
Hagen eiendom, Bærum 189 homes 28000 09 169 NCC
Mailand school 14500 08 160 Hent
Strømsv. 76, Strømmen 88 homes 11300 09 140 Veidekke
Skjetten school, Skedsmo 8700 08 136 Knut Skutle
Fornebu Hundsund Grendesenter 8500 08 125 Bøhmer
Skjetten school, again? 5300 08 105 Seby
Saga Park, Årnes 56 homes 5600 09 110 Eide
Gystadmyra, Jessheim 110 homes 9000 09 105 Skanska
Gotaasgården, Jessheim 63 homes 4800 09 103 Seby
Nesøya, Asker 52 homes N/A 08 90 Panorama
Nye Son school, Vestby 5300 08 90 NCC
Trekanten, Asker rehab 8700 08 87 Veidekke
Vestby school 5300 08 86 Skanska
Folloklinikken Ahus, Ski 4500 09 82 Komplett
Jessheim school, Ullensaker 6000 08 82 Skanska
Holter, Frogn, Follo BBL, 54 seniorhomes 3900 09 80 Solid
Nittedal, Skyttamyra BBL, 54 homes 6500 09 80 Larsen
Gjerdrum Torg 8500 08 71 Cito
UMB, IN Ås university rehab. 9400 08 69 Langemyhr
Nittedal school 3200 08 63 Eide
Vestparken step 5&6 115 homes, Lørensk. 08 A. Borgen
SiÅs, 160 studenthomes 5000 08 59 Veidekke
Bunnefjorden, 29 homes 2800 08 52 AF Øst
Offices, Skedsmokorset 5500 08 50 Veidekke

Buskerud
Gulskogen centre, mall and p-house 45000+25000 11 505 Veidekke
Kongsberg office building 33000 10 470 Veidekke
Norefjell hotel and 97appartmens 18000 09 325 Kruse Smith
Hønefoss centre 25400 08 263 Veidekke
Nye Marienlyst bad, Drammen 12000 08 200 S.Gundersen
Selvaag pluss, Drammen 116 homes 12100 09 180 S.Gundersen
Kvartal 10, Drammen 17800 08 144 S.Gundersen
Røyken centre 76 homes 12000 08 142 Vedal
Sørgrenda, Geilo 65 appartments 5018 08 107 Veidekke
Magasinet centre, Drammen rehab 4000 08 85 RVS
SiB, Drammen 110 studenthomes 5700 08 75 S.Gundersen
Bakketunet, Øvre Eiker 50 homes 08 75 Bermingrud
Baneveien ind.p, Kongsberg 56 homes 8000 08 70 Bøhmer
Kastanjesletta, Nedre Eiker 40 homes 10 65 Bermingrud
Hokksund 57 homes 3600 09 61 Senter-bygg
Søndre modum school, Åmot 5500 08 55 Senter-bygg
Skrimfjellet hyttegrend, 40 cabins 3600 08 50 Byggfornyelse

Hedmark
Radisson SAS Trysil, 341 appartments 30000 09 450 MM. Bakken
Briskeby, Hamar Stadium 10200 08 158 NCC
Rena military 6000 08 71 MM. Bakken
Asko Hedmark, Brumunddal 6400 08 66 Syljuåsen

Oppland
Beitostølen resort, 83 appartments 30000 09 200 AF Valdres
Krystallen 1 step 127 appartments 12300 08 172 Veidekke
Oppland park, Lillehammer 62 homes 8800 08 98 Skanska
Fagstadhaven, Lillehammer 68 homes 7500 08 75 Mjøsbygg
Granrud step 1 28 homes, Øyer 4300 09 65 Veidekke
SiOPP, Lillehammer 168 studenthomes 4800 08 52 Evensen

Telemark
Grenland REC, Waferfactory 35000 09 306 Seltor
Neptungården, Porsgrunn 47 homes 7300 08 85 HRL
Borgestadholmen step1,Skien 40homes 08 51 Bermingrud

Vestfold
Thor Heyerdahl school, Larvik 26600 09 420 AF Synergi
Hvaltorvet centre, Sandefjord 21000 09 244 Veidekke
Farris bad hotel, Larvik 15700 09 161 Veidekke
Hjertnespromenaden, Sandefjord 7700 09 126 Buer
Kaldnes brygge, Tønsberg 8600 08 90 OKK
Allestorget, Stokke 8600 08 85 Veidekke
Kvartal 69, Sandefjord 43 homes 9000 08 87 Skanska
Retorvet, Re 33 homes 6000 09 70 Raaen
Torp IT, Warehouse, Sandefjord 13000 08 67 N Stålbygg

Østfold
Halden prison part 1 14000 09 217 AF Øst
Kirkeparken school, Moss 22000 09 148 AF Øst
Mosseporten mall rehab 21000 08 147 Betonmast
Moss glassverk step 3 60 homes 6600 11 139 Selvaagbygg
ZEN Resort, Rømskog 4000 08 106 Larsen
Cicignon school, Fredrikstad 8000 08 92 NCC
Halden prison part 2 6700 09 89 Ove Skår
Nygård brygge, Fredrikstad 61 homes 4500 08 81 Veidekke
Askim 59 homes 10000 08 77 Skanska
Sarpsborg p-hus 4500 08 71 Veidekke
Halden prison part 3 6400 09 66 Veidekke
Værste, Fredrikstad 35 homes 2800 08 65 AF Øst
Fredriksten brygge, Halden 36 homes 6800 08 59 Backe Øst

Vest-Agder
Kvartal 38, Kristiansand mall 40000 08 317 Skanska
Elkem Solar, Kristiansand Factory 20000 08 270 Veidekke
Agder energi, Kristiansand 13000 10 250 Kruse Smith
Tangen school, Kristiansand rehab 19500 08 65 Kruse Smith

.... What happened to Øst-Agder?

Rogaland
Smedvigkvartalet, Stavanger 40000 09 400 Skanska
Forum Jæren high-rise, Bryne 13000 09 200 Skanska
Hinna pluss, Stavanger 128 homes 10100 08 190 Selvaag
Vestre svanholmen, Sandnes 19300 09 165 Kruse Smith
Raglamyr, Haugesund 26200 08 160 Kruse Smith
Shell Risavika, Sola 12500 08 158 NCC
Måltidets hus, Stavanger 9300 09 130 Skanska
NATO, Stavanger 13400 09 127 Kruse Smith
Siriskjær, Stavanger 119 homes 10900 08 125 Skanska
Hanapiren, Sandnes 60 homes 4650 08 104 Kruse Smith
Karmsund br. step2,Hauges. 60homes 10500 08 85 GL Prosjekt
Jadarhus, Rennesøy 38 homes 3600 08 80 Jadarhus
Hinna park, Stavanger 5200 08 80 Kruse Smith
Eiganes park betong, Stavanger 11000 08 64 Skanska
Karmsund br. step1,Hauges. 59homes 5000 08 57 GL Prosjekt
Husøybasen, Avaldsnes 4200 08 53 Veidekke
Frakkagerd school, Tysvær 3100 09 50 H & Thuestad

Hordaland
Nonneseter high-rise, Bergen 17200 08 271 Skanska
Nordea Fyllingsdalen, Bergen 16000 08 207 LAB
Statoil, Mongstad 08 180 Skanska
Kanalvn. Bergen 18000 08 150 LAB
Solfonn resort, Røldal 91 appartments 7600 10 143 Røynstrand
Laboratoriebygg Haukeland sjukehus 22000 08 120 LAB
Laksevåg, Bergen 62 homes 5400 09 120 Konseptbygg
Åsane senter, Bergen 11500 09 120 LAB
Nye Moster-Håvik school, Bømlo 5200 08 101 Veidekke
Ulset sykehjem, Bergen 5600 08 93 NCC
UiB Jusbygget, Bergen 6000 09 92 Skanska
Heiane centre, Stord 16000 08 85 Veidekke
Nordbygdo school, Stord 3800 09 71 Engelsen
Vital forsikring, Bergen 6100 08 69 Skanska
Turnhallen Næring, Bergen 32 homes 6500 08 65 Stoltz
Steinsvikkroken, Bergen 40 homes 5600 08 65 Konseptbygg
Hordatun, Røldal 62 appartments 2200 08 62 Røynstrand
SOS Barneby, Bergen 2300 08 52 Stoltz

Sogn og Fjordane
Nordfjordeid kulturhus 9500 09 112 Å & Øverlid
Police St. Florø 4200 08 60 Å & Øverlid
Sandane Trivselhage 3700 08 57 NCC

Møre og Romsdal
Knausen Health centre, Molde 8000 08 82 Skanska
Blåhuset, Ulsteinvik mall 7800 08 60 Kjell Nordang
Sportsklubben Træff, Molde 6400 08 55 Lønnheim
AMFI Bygg Roseby, Molde 19000 08 52 Skanska
Holen mall, Ålesund 7000 08 50 Bermingrud

Sør-Trøndelag
St.Olavs hospital fase 2, Tr.heim 106500 11 1120 NCC
Teknobyen 3, Trondheim 20300 09 215 Veidekke
Pir-Senteret 3, Trondheim 14500 09 169 Reinertsen
Persaunet, Trondheim 108 homes 8000 08 132 Veidekke
Nye Nidaros Psychiatric, Trondheim 7500 09 115 Teknobygg
Rica Nidelven hotel, Trondheim 7000 09 115 Reinertsen
Nardo school, Trondheim 6700 08 110 Skanska
Byåsen school, Trondheim 7500 08 110 Teknobygg
Comfort hotel, Trondheim 3700 08 107 Skanska
Valentinlyst, Trondheim 72 homes 8500 08 105 Veidekke
St.Olavs kreftbygg, Tr.heim rehab. 8000 09 100 Teknobygg
Brattøra 17, Trondheim 9000 08 100 Saga
Nye Vikhov, Malvik 95 homes 08 98 Prima-Hus
Wist warehouse, Trondheim 9000 08 90 N Stålbygg
Idégården, Melhus 7000 08 79 Team bygg
Culture house, Ørland 6600 08 70 Stjern

Nord-Trøndelag
Steinkjer AMFI, mall. 35000 10 400 Skanska
Airport hotel, Værnes 8000 09 216 Hent
Stjørdal 47 homes 3900 08 69 Prima-hus

Nordland
Bodø Panorama 2 85 homes 14500 08 167 Skanska
Lofoten culture house/hotel. 10500 08 160 NCC
Rønnvikveien, Bodø 92 Homes 10000 09 160 G. Johansen
Military hangar, Bodø 4400 08 87 Skanska
Nordlands hospital NPS, Bodø 5500 09 80 Reinertsen
Nesna school 3700 08 70 Jan Brattli

Troms
Barlindhaug, Tromsø 88 homes 10200 08 123 Consto
Strandkanten step 1 65 homes 6400 09 120 Skanska
Harstad brygge 81 homes 9600 08 115 Skanska
Setermoen military, Bardu 5000 09 98 Storegga
Torskelandsbyen, Lenvik 32homes 09 80 Senja Elementer
Skjold military, Bardu 4000 08 78 Juno
Workinnmarka, Tromsø 39 homes 5200 08 68 Consto
Tomasjord park, Tromsø 38homes 2400 09 53 Bjørn bygg

Finnmark
Arctic culture centre, Hmr.fest 5000 08 144 Bjørn Bygg
Lappon science bldg. Kautokeino 8600 09 120 H. Nilsen
Gartnerhagen, Alta 65 homes 7600 08 87 Bjørn Bygg
Strandparken, Hammerfest 5100 08 85 Hammerfest Entr.
Saga Grendehus, Alta 3700 08 87 Skanska
Centrum Hotel, Kautokeino 3000 08 60 Roald Johansen
Vadsø school 4100 08 54 Juno
....
Installations are a different list:

Oslo
E18 Bjørvika underwater concrete prefab tunnel 10 970 Skanska
E18 Sørenga Bjørvika concrete in place tunnel 10 950 AF Spesialprosjekt
E18 Havnelageret Bjørvika concrete in place tunnel 11 372 NCC
Tjuvholmen, underwater p-house on stilts 09 780 Skanska
Jernbanetorget streetworks 08 107 Betonmast
Bjørvika streetworks 08 100 Oslo Vei
Kongshavn, containerterminal 09 80 Veidekke
Kolsåsbanen til Åsjordet, metro uppgrade 08 67 Veidekke

Akershus
Uppgrade Lysaker station 09 472 Peab
E6 motorway south 09 651 Mika
E6 motorway Gardermoen - Dal 09 521 Mesta
Sandvika east new dual rail 11 498 Skanska
E16 Bærum motorway 08 451 Veidekke
Lysaker vest new dual rail 11 375 Veidekke
Bærum railtunnel Fossveien 10 373 NCC
Bærum railworks skallum gård 10 365 Veidekke
E6/E18 uppgrade vinterbrosletta 09 122 Veidekke
E16 Bærum fase 3 08 108 Betonmast
Fornebu inner ringroad and vestern pendikular 08 65 Skanska

Buskerud
Stålsvatnet damfilling 08 78 Tore Løkke

Hedmark
E6 motorway Skaberud - Kolomoen 09 470 Hæhre

Oppland
Framruste water powerplant 08 247 Skanska

Vestfold
E18 motorway Bommestad - Langåker 09 680 Skanska
Rv306 improved road Kirkebakken - Re 09 207 Isachsen
Color line terminal, Larvik 08 148 AF Gruppen

Østfold
E6 motorway Solli - Alvim 08 306 Mesta
E6 motorway Svingenskogen - Solberg 08 248 Mesta
E6 Sannesund motorway bridge 08 283 Bilfinger Berger
E6 motorway Solberg - Årum 6,3km 08 220 Mesta
E18 motorway Momarken - Sekkelsten 08 105 Veidekke

Agder
E18 motorway directing Grimstad - Kristiansand 09 3300 Bilfinger Berger
E18 Roadworks in daysones 09 640 Meister GmbH
E18 7 tunnels 08 300 L. Nilsen & Sønner
E18 tunnel-elements 09 200 Ølen Betong
Powerline Skåreheia - Setesdal 08 80 Betonmast
Eydehavn port 08 77 Skanska
Rv465 Road improvement Hanesund - Sande 08 181 Mesta
Kongsgårdbukta port 08 60 AF Anlegg

Rogaland
Removing Ekofisk plattforms fase2 14 1200 AF Decom
Sønnå water powerplant 08 640 AF Anlegg
Rv519 Finnfast underwater mountaintunnel 09 500 NCC
Removing Ekofisk plattforms fase1 08 440 AF Decom
Risavika port 08 292 T. Stangeland
Sandnes - Lurahammaren dualtrack railway 09 287 Stangeland
Lurahammaren - Jåttåvågen dualtrack railway 08 158 Veidekke
Sola portworks 1,6km 11 100 T. Stangeland
Risavika LNG-tank 09 91 Kruse Smith

Hordaland
Bergen motorway Ringroad west Dolvik - Sandeide 10 600 Mesta
Halsnøysambandet Sunde - Tofte Underwater mountaintunnel 08 253 Veidekke
E39 Romarheimsdalen 6,5km road improvement 08 148 Mesta
Rv48 Helland - Havgårdsdalen road improvement 09 132 Kruse Smith
Rv13 Myrkdalstunnelen mountaintunnel 08 125 Kruse Smith
Kollsnes, Aibel AS improving process-area 08 120 Veidekke
Odda, Boliden AS tunneling 08 92 Skanska
Mongstad heathingplant 08 90 AF Anlegg
Kollsnes on-land gass-pipe 08 70 AF Anlegg
E39 Fjøsangerveien/Minde allé 2-level intersection 08 62 NCC

Sogn og Fjordane
Kjøsnesfjorden water powerplant 10 500 Veidekke
Rv5 Strøymsnestunnelen 2,6km mountaintunnel 09 160 Mika
E16 road improvement Voldum - Borlaug 08 146 Mika
Rv55 Fatlaberget 2,2km mountaintunnel 08 138 Mika
Rv53 Naustbukttunneln Mountaintunnel prolongation 09 80 Hæhre

Møre og Romsdal
Atlanterhavstunnelen underwater mountaintunnel 08 354 Mesta

Trøndelag
Trondheim, Skansentunnelen - underwater prefab concretetunnel 08 261 Bilfinger Berger
Leirfossene water powerplant 08 140 AF Anlegg
E6 motorway Frøset - Sørlia 08 92 AF Grunnarbeid
E6 motorway Vist Frøset and Sørlia - Løsberga 08 58 Austad Maskinstasjon

Nordland
LKAB Malmshippingdock and silos 08 720 L. Nilsen & Sønner
LKAB Malmshippingport 09 248 NCC
Rv17 Tverlandet - Godøy road improvement 09 177 AF Anlegg
Powerline Bleikvatn - Røssvatn 08 110 AF Anlegg
Reinskar water powerplant 08 92 Veidekke

Troms
Fv347 Langfjorden Øst - Arnøya road improvement 08 107 Mesta
Boullanjåkki water powerplant 09 100 L.Nilsen & Sønner

Suggestions for a new culture-house in Bodø:
http://www.an.no/kultur/article3405861.ece
See them all here:
http://www.an.no/bildeserier/article3402514.ece?start=0&serie=0
Most of them looks very weird=)
http://gfx.api.no/image-versions/www.an.no/510x510r/01774/1205241922484_12NYHKulturhuskvar_1774156510x510r.jpg

Finally some renderings from the hottest architectural competition in Norway after Holmenkollen was announced. :)

Awesome proposals, but they really need to fix their extremly ugly Radisson SAS Hotel! But Bodø will never approve most of these proposals, since they are way to spectacular and expencive.

http://gfx.api.no/image-versions/www.an.no/510x510r/01772/1205154981600_11NYHKulturkvartal_1772323510x510r.jpg

Another interesting competition is one in Stavanger, for a new Choice Hotel. 5 proposals was presented today. The approved one will start construction in late 2008, with completion late 2009 or 2010.

This is the proposals:

Architect: BDA
http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00213/pyramideutenta_jpg_213923i.jpg

Proposer: Base Property and BDA
http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00213/pyramide_jpg_213919i.jpg

Architect: GSJ
http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00213/fasadenutenpa_jpg_213921i.jpg

Architect: BDA
http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00213/DSC_0094_JPG_213909i.jpg

Architect: BIG
http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00213/Periskop_jpg_213876i.jpg

Only two of these proposals is acceptable in height according to Stavanger local authorities, who wanted low proposals. Two of the proposals is high-rises.

Ohh I like this one...

http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00213/fasadenutenpa_jpg_213921i.jpg

Reminds me a lot of the Olympic stadium in Bejing. What exactly is the function of the building? Offices? The first proposal looks good too.

Ops, forgot to write its usage. Its a hotel, Choice hotel.

Like that proposal too, but i hope they go for something else, since we have seen many building lately that have the exact same facade. And of course, i hope they go with BIG, they do really nice high-rises!

But i am pretty sure thye are going with this one (http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00213/DSC_0094_JPG_213909i.jpg) or BDA's first proposal, though the director of Choise hotel sais they will go for the most amazing and coolest proposal!

No doubt=) The proposal from BIG kicks ass! Stupid hight-regulations.... ;P And in central parts of this old town centre there will be protests=P I tought they wanted less modern buildings here... But this is good news anyway!

[QUOTE=Þróndeimr;18996682]Another interesting competition is one in Stavanger, for a new Choice Hotel. 5 proposals was presented today. The approved one will start construction in late 2008, with completion late 2009 or 2010.

This is the proposals:

Proposer: Base Property and BDA
http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00213/pyramide_jpg_213919i.jpg

The proposal by Base Property and BDA really reminds me of this ressidential project by BIG for Islands Brygge in Copenhagen:

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/9638/big2qe9.png

There are more pictures on BIG's home page

Olav Thon wants to build a new 200 room conference hotell in the centre of middle size town Moss. The major thinks its exciting and it will have to be atleast 10 floors(40m) high, wich is very high for this town with mostly 3 floor buildings.. ;D
http://www.moss-avis.no/article/20080313/OKONOMI/958375689

The one by BIG, it's that fabulous :eek:

Berg studentby in Trondheim:
http://www.arkitektur.no/?nid=5918&lcid=1044&iid=7867&pid=11003.-20201&r_n_d=4719_&adjust=1&x=895&y=670&bgc=255255255&zmode=fit
Completion 2010?

Berg studentby in Trondheim:

Completion 2010?

Doubt that, first they have to start planning the demolishion of the current buildings, hopefully that will start sometime in 2009. My guess is completion 2011/2012.

And that proposal you show didn't win the competition which was settled over a year ago. I haven't seen any really good renderings of the winning proposal actually, just the few they have on Arkitektur.no

http://www.arkitektur.no/?nid=74109&lcid=1044&iid=78577&pid=20009.-20201&r_n_d=4714_&adjust=1&x=700&y=550&bgc=255255255&zmode=fit

Voss Fjellandsby
Myrkdalen skiresort is planning to become one of the largest ski-resort's in Scandinavia. With 14 lifts and a capacity on about 15 000 a day. They will invest some 800 million kroner in this, and architectural competitions for several large hotels has already started. Construction will go in several phases, starting right after this season.

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/1042/vossfjellandsbykart1uv9.jpg

At 25.02 the winner of the architecture competition for development of Down Town Porsgrunn was chosen. The project involves beach promenade, green areas, new ressidentials in harmony with old ones, improved shopping street and the square as a meeting point along an active river front.

The winning project is designed by Kristine Jensen (DK), Transform (DK), Cobe (DK), Filter (N) and Asplan Viak (N).

http://www.downtownsenter.no/SteenStrom2/upload/Kjøpesenter/DownTown/AKJT_perspektiv-NY.jpg

http://www.downtownsenter.no/SteenStrom2/ShoppingCentre/templates/Page.aspx?id=17553

Sorry about that, didn't research it, just posted the wrong tread, and i didn't want it blank=P

Several suggestions for Straume, outside Bergen:
http://www.bt.no/forbruker/husoghjem/article528250.ece
http://www.bt.no/multimedia/archive/00420/Straume_Sj_front_re_420981b.jpg
Schmidt Hammer Lassen
http://www.bt.no/multimedia/archive/00420/573501__Slik_kan_st_420718b.jpg
HLM arkitektur & plan as
http://www.bt.no/multimedia/archive/00420/122_bfc8e0k1189dc3e_420977b.jpg
Studio Ludo

Awesome proposals, though i like Studio Ludo's and HLM arkitektur & plan's proposal better than the famous Schmidt Hammer Lassen. Another 300 apartments for Straume then! Then they should have just over 3000 apartments been planned in Straume, a small city with just around 10 000 inhabitants! :cheers:

Straume is booming. Its a small city, and grew fast on some bad infastructure. Today it looks like a really messy metro city of Bergen, their architecture and future planns is somehow similar to Dubai with several high-rise buildings (observation tower), green 'towns', watertowns and huge shopping malls! Straume might look really awesome in 10-15 years, as they are aiming to double its population to 17 000 in few years!

Future Straume:

Sartor Senter with 131 stores, a observation tower, and future residential areas behind the mall.
http://www.bt.no/multimedia/archive/00373/SARTOR_oversikt_MIR_373943b.jpg

And Bildøy, a Green Town in Straume with hundreds of residentials and the traditional shopping streets, with a hotel/cultural centre facing the fjord.
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8511/bildykystbyreguleringspfp6.jpg

http://www.kystby.no/sitefiles/site1/imagegallery/-pimggallery_qlidsy.jpg

http://www.kystby.no/sitefiles/site1/imagegallery/-pimggallery_1dwudm.jpg

http://www.kystby.no/sitefiles/site1/imagegallery/-pimggallery_Qsn11R.jpg

http://www.kystby.no/sitefiles/site1/imagegallery/-pimggallery_QcQXVi.jpg

http://www.kystby.no/sitefiles/site1/imagegallery/-pimggallery_7ONuD3.jpg

Btw, Straume is also getting a light rail or tram as been apart of their 10 billion investment plann!

Wtf?=) Can't believe it's real? Weird that there's not more about it in the media? =P Exciting to see! Hope we will se some construction soon then! As for the Bergen light rail, it's a long way before we see it to towards Straume, first Flesland and then Åsane i guess...

^ Yeah, it was a big article in BT about the fantastic boom in Straume a months ago, but thats still just local.

Guess it will reach the bigger media soon too, since the really detailed renderings and competitions haven't comed up untill now, though the bigger projects such as Bildøy and some other big project with 300 apartments has been here since 2004/2005.

Have we mentioned the proposed Science Center in Østfold (http://images.google.no/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sciencecenterostfold.no/admin/common/GetImg.asp%3FFileID%3D1042%26xsize%3D295&imgrefurl=http://www.sciencecenterostfold.no/%3FCatID%3D1155&h=362&w=295&sz=55&hl=no&start=25&um=1&tbnid=E8E9BAyQ_0HcFM:&tbnh=121&tbnw=99&prev=/images%3Fq%3DE6%2Bnorge%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dno%26sa%3DN) yet? I don`t think so. Well, here it is:

http://www.sciencecenterostfold.no/admin/common/GetImg2.asp?FileID=1046


http://www.sciencecenterostfold.no/admin/common/GetImg2.asp?FileID=1044


http://www.sciencecenterostfold.no/admin/common/GetImg2.asp?FileID=1045

I think it looks great:cheers:

^ Looks great, think i've seen it before, isn't it a year old or two?

Anyway, here is some results from that new hotel competition in Stavanger, votes from the newspaper Aftenbladet.

http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00214/lokkeveien_copy_jpg_214585i.jpg

People wants high-rise, yay!

And by the way, if you guys doesn't know where this is ill show it in this picture:
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/3042/bigforslagzm7.jpg

Brattøra Hotell has been halted, and politicians disagree on how to build it. Its too tall, and will be lowered to 5 floors, another problem is that the area is dense, and the last parking lot there is exactly there today, and since building a underground parking garade seem to be too expencive they can't make a decission on how to do it!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/BrattraHotel2smallx.jpg

As you can see the hotel is 28m tall, and will need to be below 20m to be back on track according to the politicians.

Originally it was planned as a 20 floor tall tower right next to the fjord, to unvoid building it too dense as a lowrise would make it, but politicians declined that project.

So typical Norway!:(

No, it would be typical Norwegian to say no to the highrise, and then say yes to the "wall". I don't believe this is the place for neither.Saying no to both would IMO be a good decision. This hotel (supposedly the largest congress hotel in the Scandinavia) would be a great (short term) commercial asset for Trondheim, but it would visually be a catastrophy to build a 20-storey highrise where it was planned. A 7-storey "wall" would be better, but not ideal. If the lot is too small, I think they should place the hotel somewhere else (as I have mentioned somewhere else in SSC, I think other places in Trondheim, like Trolla, Tiller and perhaps parts of Lade and Lerkendal/Tempe are ideal for highrises). Alternatively, they should wait until the railway freight terminal moves away, which probably will happen in 10-15 years time. That will free up a lot of area close to the planned hotel.

Update:
Having visited Trondheim during the Easter, I don't see how a 7-storey building here would do much harm, except for Pirbadet, of course. The chosen piece of land is quite small, however, and I would really have found another place for my "signal building".......

Wants Skytran in Trondheim

Professors at NTNU wants Trondheim to become a testing, and research city for a skytran-system. The first skytran in the world will be ready in California in a short while. A possible link in Trondheim is Midtbyen - St. Olavs Hospital - NTNU (The University) and up to Dragvoll (High-schools). This won't cost much more than around 100 million NOK, which is 1/10 of the price of a lightrail!

A skytran is a brand new concept, allowing small carts in a big number to go flying around at any time, without drivers. Its all magnetic, so the costs of maintenance is small. These carts can travel 160km/h in urban areas.

http://www.adressa.no/multimedia/archive/00993/skytran_993750b.jpg

http://www.unimodal.net/images/stories/skytran%20stop%20labeled%202.jpg

http://www.unimodal.net/images/stories/stationonlyview.jpg

Lovely idea! Would be so great if it came through, hopefully it will, but probably not in the first comming years!

Wow!! 160 km/h! That's quite nice =) I really hope this will go through.

Yes this is really exciting! 100 million kroner that's nothing! Some crazy rich guy could finance it easily=) Trond Andresen has gotten publicity for this in a while now.. He also wants a Skytran line from Trondheim to Oslo instead off conventional high speed rail. Btw. the top speed in Addresseavisen doesn't consist with Unimodals homepage who says top speed is 45 MPH in the city. 150 mph between cities.

Dragvoll and Gløshaugen are two large parts of the Science university in Trondheim.. =) Offcourse the Skytran would be much cheaper than to build a new larger joint campus;D

This is still however untested technology - so we will have to wait some years for the results from California then=) And seing how slow politicans are to use other maglev-trains, this will take some time for shure! I can understand how they're sceptical but no politicians even bothered to see the Unimodal seminar at the University!!

A simular maglev PRT-project was proposed for Fornebu in Oslo in 2000 with the same arguments used in Trondheim, but the politicians wasn't interested, and we all know how that ended=/ http://samferdsel.toi.no/article19083-983.html

Personal rapid transport or PRT is basicly like a taxi on tracks or an horisontal elevator if you like to see it that way=) Stations are like offramps on a highway, not disturbing the traffic;D

Altough not that for from us, in Uppsala, there's a 400m test track with one station for the Vectus South-Korean PRT system. If all tests goes well, in 2012 there will be a functioning line from the central station to an industrial district, top speed 50km/h wich is not much, but to compare Oslo Metro has an average speed of 31km/h because it stops on every station, and with no waiting time this is a would be a great way of urban transport:
http://www2.unt.se/avd/1,1786,MC=77-AV_ID=734411,00.html

A 3,8km stretch Ultra PRT from Heathrow Terminal 5 to the Business car park, scheduled to open in 2009, top speed is however only 40km/h:
http://www.ultraprt.com/heathrow.htm

With no waiting, high safety, and non-stop transportation, there are many advantages compared to mass transit. This is definatly going to be more common in the future, a paradigmshift waiting to happend=)
More on PRT here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit

Btw: Roald / Ramstad won the competion for Tønsbergs new city hall:
http://tbimg.no.publicus.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Avis=TB&Dato=20080331&Kategori=NYHETER&Lopenr=968809373&Ref=AR&MaxW=768&title=1&NoBorder

I was so right about this, they choosed the most boring design of the 5 hotel's been proposed in Stavanger. I am sure it will looks good, but still, i did wish for something different than a new wall.

BDA won with this proposal.
http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00213/pyramideutenta_jpg_213923i.jpg

I read it... No big surprise. They will probably not have that many guests either if they want to scare people off with loud music in the lobby neither.

^^ Ofcourse they did;P ....

These are a picture serie with different location and building- proposals for the Airport authorities in Bodø
http://www.an.no/bildeserier/article3445982.ece?start=5&serie=0
This one is cool=)
http://gfx.api.no/image-versions/www.an.no/510x510r/01811/1207138440261_3907438315_1811237510x510r.jpg
Highrise=)
http://gfx.api.no/image-versions/www.an.no/510x510r/01811/1207138440474_4123378705_1811239510x510r.jpg

Norsk Bane is in Stavanger nowadays discussing the HSR line to Stavanger. Price is estimated to around 7.7 billion euros (53 billion NOK).

At the same time there is a little fighting between Nord and Sør Trøndelag of the HSR lien here, because Sør T won't allow a HSR comming up over Dovre as Norsk Bane wants. Søt T wants the HSR up Østerdalen, which will give a better link to Gøteborg. Problem is that there won't be any line to Steinkjer if they build it up Østerdalen, so Nord T really wants the line to go up Gudbrandsdalen (with a link to Ålesund as Norsk Bane wants).

And construction of the new shopping mall in Steinkjer is going really well, ill remember to take some construction pics next time i go to Steinkjer, but their done with the ground-works and is soon completed with the whole underground floor which will be garages. The new Amfi centre will become the largest mall north of Dovre with some 120 stores in a 67 000sqm large building. Estimated turnaround will be around 1.2 billion NOK a year, give about 600 new working stations and 300 new parking lots.

The jernbaneverket study also concluded with rail trough Østerdalen:
http://home.halden.net/moss/lyntog.JPG

^ Yeah, i guess that will be a bigger discussion, Gudbrandsdalen or Østerdalen.

Btw, a very nice video of Oslo Opera House been built here, as seen from the construction webcameras. Notice PWC house comming up at the end as well.

http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2008/04/05/531639.html

The Østerdalen/Gudbrandsdalen question is a stupid argue, really. Only a fight of rural politics and where polticians are from. The most logical valley for the HSR from Oslo to Trondheim is Østerdalen, as it is with the main road (E6) between these cities (which is completely misplaced, imo). If you want a HSR, you need to put it where there are the least height differences. Pure logic.

Just a little design project by Code Arkitekter, up north on Senja. A 500sqm large terrace, parking lot, viewpoint and a little walkway on the rocky seafront. Was just completed, seems like a very popular Norwegian thing to do nowadays!

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/2504/walkway1sr3.jpg

And a nice proposal from Hellesylt (a very small, but popular tourist village). A 10 floor tall hotel at the harbourfront with 49 rooms, with spa and conference halls.

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7705/cowiproposal2smalloz0.jpg

http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/6189/cowiproposal3smallrm3.jpg

Nice landmarks!

uuh, that hotel building will fall down! (;

It's part of the national 800million Turistveg project, consists of 18 scenic routes. www.turistveg.no
Viewpoint in Geiranger:
http://multimedia.api.no/www.siste.no/archive/01481/20071014-042b_1481976m.jpg?noloop=true&ext=.jpg
Resting areas in Lofoten:
http://www.motor.no/multimedia/archive/00134/SykkelhusLav88_134268f.jpg
http://www.norax.no/produkter/prodimages/betongbenkstor010.jpg
http://www.turistvegprosjektet.com/ImageArchive/89/Lofoten%20sept04%2016.jpg
Resting area in Hardagner:
http://www.bt.no/multimedia/archive/00346/Turistveg_Hardanger_346688c.jpg
Viewpoint Atlantic sea route:
http://www.arkitektnytt.no/images/medium/Ask.jpg
Viewpoint Aurland:
http://www.nrk.no/contentfile/file/1.470168!img470150.jpg
Viewpoint Rondane:
http://www.folldalsportalen.no/images/000006DF.jpg

Where did you read about that Hellesylt proposal? I read about it for 3 years ago i think - at that time it was supposed to be the worlds tallest wooden building, since i hadn't heard anything i figured it had to be dead. For those of you who doesn't know Hellesylt is in Geirangerfjord. If a 10 floor building ever gets built here i will take out my Chatteauneuf du pape wine=)

^ As far as i know its never going to be built. It was a proposal to extend the current Grand Hotel there. Its just that i can't remember seen any rendering untill now (on the architect's homepage). So maybe its not dead at all or they have already built something cheap and ugly! ;)

It's part of the national 800million Turistveg project, consists of 18 scenic routes. www.turistveg.no


All of these are really nice. A great project for Norwegian tourist industry.

any projects or pictures from Kristiansand?

any projects or pictures from Kristiansand?

Kilden Consert Hall is very interesting I think:

http://www.lauvtrebruk.no/cache/bcb50fedd532c71aac77fea01a9b644f/fullsize.jpg


http://www.kristiansand.as/images/large/kilden.jpg

Yes, the new cultural house is probably the most interesting projects in Kristiansand nowadays.


>> Nytt Kultursenter i Kristiandsand (Kristiansand Performing Arts Centre)
Location: County|Vest Agder > City|Kristiansand

The Performing Arts Centre in Kristiansand is designed by the Finnish architect firm ALA Architects (http://www.ala-a.com). The 30 000sqm large building is going to have a concert hall with 1300 seats, a theatre hall with 700 seats, some offices and restaurants and a underground parking garage with a capacity of 400 cars.

With a budged on 130 million Euro this project was approved in 2005, as it won the competition where 93 architect firms from all around the world had delivered their proposal to the new performing arts centre in Southern Norway's regional capital, Kristiansand.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/KristiansandPerformingArtCenter1sma.jpg

More renderings, click to enlarge!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/KristiansandPerformingArtCenter2min.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/?action=view&current=KristiansandPerformingArtCenter2.jpg) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/KristiansandPerformingArtCenter3min.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/?action=view&current=KristiansandPerformingArtCenter3.jpg) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/KristiansandPerformingArtCenter4min.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/?action=view&current=KristiansandPerformingArtCenter4.jpg)

Trondheim city council will treat the hotel today, and thge regulation plan of Brattøra. Many of the proposed buildings is 25-32m tall, which has met loads of opposition the last few days.

http://www.adressa.no/multimedia/archive/00997/Rocksenter_997590b.jpg
This one (National music centre) has been approved (in November 2007), but is one fo the buildings causing great opposition.

http://www.adressa.no/multimedia/archive/00997/Bratt_raweb_997591b.jpg
The new hotel will be 32m tall, while Trondheim's new official stand towards height on buildings is 30m.

The Østerdalen/Gudbrandsdalen question is a stupid argue, really. Only a fight of rural politics and where polticians are from. The most logical valley for the HSR from Oslo to Trondheim is Østerdalen, as it is with the main road (E6) between these cities (which is completely misplaced, imo). If you want a HSR, you need to put it where there are the least height differences. Pure logic.

The HSR line will bring a lot of positive things that cities in both regions would want though. I'm from Lillehammer, and the HSR line would really be great for this city, as it will make this city drastically closer to Oslo, and thus it will be easier to keep companies de-centralized, it will make it easier for commuters etc, and Lillehammer will be a much more desirable place for both companies and possible residents. So there is more to it than just what's easiest.. :)

^ Yeah, a line through Østerdalen will only benefit Trondheim, since the stopping station in Østerdalen is small. Gudbrandsdalen line will get connection to Steinkjer and go through populated cities such as Lillehammer, Otta, Oppdal, with a possible future link to Ålesund/Romsdalen as they want to.

The height difference isn't that much either, its 800m above Kvikne-fjell, so just about 200m lower than Dovrefjell. But still, Dovrefjell will me much more expencive than a line over Kvikne. But considering the possibilities with a Gudbrandsdalen line its just as good.

Btw, welcome SmalltownUrbanist, didn't know we had someone from Lillehammer hanging around here too! :cheers:

A vision was presented at Stiklestad today actually. Norsk Bane AS hopes to have Oslo-Steinkjer line ready by 2030 (2030, 1000 year anniversary "Battle of Stiklestad"). This line will have to go through Gudbrandsdalen. Politicians in Nord Trøndelag is of course wild about this and its fun to see such as wide engagement among all Innherred politicians for a HSR line. There will be several stopping stations between Trondheim and Steinkjer, both at Røra, Verdal, Levanger, Åsen and Stjørdal. There will be three trains going three times an hour. Sør Trøndelag is still very oppose these planns, since it will cost some 7 billion NOK extra.

Brattøra Hotel
Trondheim city council has deceided to stop the Brattøra hotel for now. Its too massive, and need to be reduced in height before they will make a final decission. So now its up to the developers again.

I am actually hoping for a complet redesign of the hotel. If they just reduce it all by 1 floor it just gets worthless really. Would be nice if they tried to do something as close to the fjord as possible, leaving more space for a larger green zone around the Music center and the conferance center.

It's not the height that is the problem, it's the total amount off obstacles, since a HSR never climbs high it has to tunnel trough mountains. And Østerdalen is very flat and straigt, leaving few tunnels and curves. Tynset would benefit just as much as Lillehammer by having a station, only Lillehammer will get a decent rail-connection anyway since it's part of the prioritized inter-city triangle.

That music centre in Trondheim looks great!

^ True. I don't know the difference in the cost between the two options, but both will be just as quick, though Gudbrandsdalen line will have many more tunnels. Before any decission will be made i guess they have to calculate the benefits, since Gudbrandsdalen line can easilly be connected to Steinkjer and Romsdalen.

Here is the winner of the new Swimming center and upper secondary school in Bergen.
http://www.arkitektnytt.no/images/crop/tangentenen

Danish KHR arkitekter AS in cooperation with local Bergen architects Riss Landskap AS won the competition of 17 proposals.

I understand that North-western Norway wants a rail line in Gudbrandsdalen, but why is Steinkjer depending on it to go trough Gudbrandsdalen?

thanks for some updates from kristiansand. I've never been there but i really like that town for many reasons..and Start is my favorite football club :cheers:

and Start is my favorite football club :cheers:
:cheers::cheers: It's my favorite team too, but I lived my first 20 years in Kristiansand;) Ideed, there are many reasons to like Kristiansand:cheers:
http://www.interflora.no/nm2006/Kristiansand-Festningen.jpg

http://www.campingbussensvenner.no/Hoesttreff/Hamresanden.jpg

Some master planning renderings of a larger development project close to downtown Stavanger. Aker will build a new large office building there which they plan to be completed with already in 2011. Entire project will consist of 50% office space, 20% residentials and 30% cultural/shopping usage.

http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00222/cci-Aft-20080502-1-_222108i.jpg

Oh, man...one must love norwegian architecture - it´s so wonderful! I especially like that Turistveg project! :cheers:

This is the SEIF-building under construction in Førde, a 5 floor office building. Ready in 2010:
http://www.nrk.no/contentfile/file/1.5554501!img5554413.jpg

Trondheim city council will treat the hotel today, and thge regulation plan of Brattøra. Many of the proposed buildings is 25-32m tall, which has met loads of opposition the last few days.

http://www.adressa.no/multimedia/archive/00997/Rocksenter_997590b.jpg
This one (National music centre) has been approved (in November 2007), but is one fo the buildings causing great opposition..

I really love this one, it's almost a Trondheim version of Hamburgs new Philharmonic Concert Hall by Herzog & de Meuron - but in a good way. Hope it gets build. The new cultural center in Kristiansstad is also great.

^^ That building really reminds me of this one in Toronto.
http://davidbyrne.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/05_02_05_a_toronto_cad.jpg

Wow, those are amazing! One for Oslo too, please=)

Aren't there also proposed construction projects for Tromsø, you know, to prepare it for the 2018 Olympics (if it wins the bid)?

(I'm new, by the way).

Sure, but it will not win;P

It did manage to outbid Oslo and Trondheim, though :lol:

^ :(

Check out this video for Tromsø 2018 projects:
http://www.tromso2018.no/web-tv/article3190100.ece

It did manage to outbid Oslo and Trondheim, though :lol:

Yeah, but things isn't as it should be. Directors and leaders for the proposal have jumped of the project and it sound like some big dramatic family struggle for those running it!

If they f* it up more, maybe Oslo will get a chance for the 2022 olympics;)

All joking aside, I think that Tromsø could use a boost in development. The High North in general, is in need of some good development.

Even the remotest possibility of the OL being held in Tromsø could spur the construction of things that have been talked about and mulled over (*cough* rail line from Kiruna *cough*).

Plus, projects already in the works in the city would have an incentive to be completed.

It did manage to outbid Oslo and Trondheim, though :lol:

That comment is wrong in so many ways:ohno: But no hard feelings!

Welcome manrush! Where in Norway may you be from?

Tromsø will be a the fastest growing urban are of Northern Norway no matter what happens with the olympics. It's not that you can compare the effects of a winter oplympics with summer oplympics eitherway.

I'm not Norwegian. I'm just a lover of the country.

As I've said elsewhere, I'm a Massachusettsian (but not a Masshole).

Hehe... I just figured since you were so into the 2018 olympics and knew so much about it. I can't imagine Norway applying for olympics is a very big matter internationally.

manrush is right about Tromsø. I was hoping for Trondheim, since i live nearby, but Tromsø deserves it the most. TNorthern Norway have never gotten anything exept the Snøhvit gass field! A Olympic event up there will bring some great and fantastic projects up there, not only for Tronsø, but for infastructure all the way down to Trøndelag. :)

Its going to be expencive, but hey, we're using a huge among of money on oil and gass installments which is way more expencive than holding some Olympics. It will make Northern Norway a much larger tourist attraction in years to come, and bring big incomes, which we need since we're not going to survive forever with our oil fund! :)

Btw, welcome to SSC manrush! :cheers: Ever been to Norway/Scandinavia?

^^I'd love to visit one day, not as a tourist. But rather, as an international student.

Holmenkollen reaches the world!

Holmenkollen Ski Jump, Oslo, Norway
A shining silhouette

Ski jump brings architectural beauty to Norwegian slopes
Ski jumps have rarely endeavored to be a thing of beauty. Technical requirements overtake the architectural thought behind the design. But the new Holmenkollen ski jump, designed by Julien De Smedt Architects, will take jump design into another realm satisfying such requirements as wind protection, curvature and access whilst providing an iconic landmark to the north-west of Oslo, Norway.

The silhouette of the new ski tower has a sharp and simple cut. The profile follows the jumpers’ descent and is offset to create necessary wind protection. The smooth and bended rectangle hosts the slope, the main structure and circulation with an inclined elevator running from the bottom to the top where a 50 m2 bar/jumpers lounge and jump platform is located. The top is cut horizontally to accommodate a viewing platform with a 360º panorama view over the Oslo city landscape.

The architect, Julien De Smedt, told WAN the thought behind the design:

“When we addressed the issue of skijumping one thing became immediately obvious: the building will have to frame the discipline but not overwhelm it - to celebrate the sport rather than celebrate the architecture. But it should also be a spectacle for the entire city and by doing so extending the tradition of Holmenkollen as the symbol of Oslo as well as a place where the city is celebrated and embraced. A place to see Oslo.”

The new jump will replace an existing obsolete jump in order to satisfy the new standards and regulations in accordance with the International Skiing Federation. Since its erection in 1892 the Holmenkollen jump has been rebuilt 18 times to keep up with changing standards. However De Smedt believes the new design will stand the test of time: “The ski jumps evolved as the discipline did so the pace of change has been higher in the early days and is now slowed down to nothing, until the discipline changes again. The jump we are replacing is dated back to 1982 and the change is therefore due to its technical and iconographic obsolescence.”

De Smedt is among the few who have attempted to integrate beauty and function in the world of snow sports. Zaha Hadid broke the barrier with her first design in 2002 of the Bergisel Ski Jump in Austria. The new Holmenkollen jump and arena will be built in time for the 2011 World Championship at a combined cost of 350 Norwegian Kroner.

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/2271_1_Ski%20slope%202big.jpg

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/2271_2_ski%20slope1big.jpg

World Architecture News article (May 9th 2008) (http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=2271)

^^ Yeah, imagine. That's a LOT of money!:nuts:

I'm a bit confused of the light beacon being on the second illustration. The same image was also in the mail Julian De Smedt sent out today. Is it going to be there of not?!

New Lerkendal Stadium?
A sketch of the new Lerkendal Stadium with 30 000 seats is avaliable at Dagbladet.no today. The stadium was rebuilt in 2002 and has 21 850 seats as of today. But this was far from enough, and the stadium have been overcrowded every single match with an average of 19 440 spectators in 2006, and about 1000 more in 2007. Seems like Rosenborg playing bad have a payoff as well!

http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/5/53/535/535172/NyeXLerkenda0057265_1210744043_1210744057.jpg

E6 getting more expencive

New E6 between Trondheim and Stjørdal is becomming more expencive than expected. The project, which involving a larger tunnel in Trondheim, and a 4 lane highway in Stjørdal just jumped up 600 million Kroner, and will now cost over 3 Billion kroner.

Since the road will go under the airport (Trondheim Airport Værnes) there is some new special and expencive demands.

And the tunnel in Trondheim leading from downtown to Lade will become extra difficult to make, since they have to move 10 old wooden buildings from downtown and clear 200 000 cubic metres of quick clay from the area before they are allowed to start on making the new 4 lane tunnel which is 2.4km long. 500 homes will get physicaly tuched when making the tunnel. The project is now been known as the most complicated road project ever north of Dovre.

E6 getting more expencive

New E6 between Trondheim and Stjørdal is becomming more expencive than expected. The project, which involving a larger tunnel in Trondheim, and a 4 lane highway in Stjørdal just jumped up 600 million Kroner, and will now cost over 3 Billion kroner.

Since the road will go under the airport (Trondheim Airport Værnes) there is some new special and expencive demands.

And the tunnel in Trondheim leading from downtown to Lade will become extra difficult to make, since they have to move 10 old wooden buildings from downtown and clear 200 000 cubic metres of quick clay from the area before they are allowed to start on making the new 4 lane tunnel which is 2.4km long. 500 homes will get physicaly tuched when making the tunnel. The project is now been known as the most complicated road project ever north of Dovre.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to build a rail line instead?

(side note: Isn't your FrP known as the "motorist's party"? Just saying.....)

2 years ago some investors presented some plans for massive development in the borough of Åssiden in Drammen.

The proposal have now been finalized and will be handled by the Drammen City council this autumn.


http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n125/kjetilbalog/SCC/aasiden.jpg

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n125/kjetilbalog/SCC/aasiden2.jpg
The plans include:

A 20 floor hotel with 250 rooms and conference facilities
65.000 square metres of retail space (a shopping mall, car dealership and furniture)
300 apartment in several 8 storey buildings
A 5000 square metre Bydelssentrum with various services (doctor, dentist, café etc.)
Parkade with 1740 parking bays

110.000 square metres in total with a price tag between 2 and 3 billion NOK.

The adjacent racetrack will also be upgraded.

Link to the newspaper article here (http://dt.no/article/20080523/NYHET/151640030/1063/NYHET#).

Btw, StatoilHydro reports that the world first floating windmill is soon reality. A prototype will be built 10km west from Karmøy in half a year. Its been a few years since Hydro announced their planns about a larger windmill park out in the ocean, seems like its finally about to go off!

Vision is to build a park with 200 gigantic windmills been 200m tall with rotoor diameters up to 120m across. Such a park can produce power to some 200 000 Norwegian houses with the stabile and everlasting wind in the North Sea! :cheers:

http://img279.imageshack.us/img279/2521/hydro2small3vo.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/Hydro3mini.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/Hydro1mini.jpg

Politicians want to put a Boat in Glasshouse in the middle of Bodø.
http://www.an.no/kultur/article3588644.ece
http://gfx.api.no/image-versions/www.an.no/510x510r/01947/1212727342777_jekt_alt9_1947098510x510r.jpg

Looks interesting. Seems like Bodoe has got soem great ideas for revitalising the harbour area :)

Lofotporten, a new town in Raftsundet:
http://www.tu.no/bygg/article170242.ece

Not very surprising, but Schmidt Hammer Lassen won a competition of one of Straume's many new developments. Its been mentioned a few pages back, where you can see three proposals.

Found this news on WorldArchitectureNews as well, so this one reaches the whole world!

SHL win Norwegian masterplan
Straume mixed-use development, Straume, Norway

Straume Sjøfront, near Bergen in Norway, is a dense, contemporary urban development spread across three new islands and comprising residential, business, and hotel facilities in addition to a harbour where visitors can moor their boats.

The new development is situated at the foot of Straume's steep cliffs, placing it right out in Straume Sound and marking a clear boundary between the mountains and the water. The Norwegian jury were impressed by the way in which the practice’s design for Straume Sjøfront responds so imaginatively to its location creating a distinctive new community between water and mountainside

The proposal include plans for an intimate canalside milieu situated in the area between the cliffs and the main development. Water is a key theme in the development: the three individual islands are separated by canals which give each of them an individual character. The unusual location and the masterplan combine to create a rare development in which a dense urban setting sits directly alongside a sweeping natural environment. The plans include a mixture of residential properties of various designs and scales, fostering a diverse architectural and social environment.

Schmidt Hammer Lassen architects share first prize in the competition with the Norwegian architectural practice HLM architects.

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10001_1_big1.jpg

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.showprojectbigimages&img=3&pro_id=10001

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.showprojectbigimages&img=4&pro_id=10001

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.showprojectbigimages&img=2&pro_id=10001

I really like the look of all the construction projects in Norway. They feel so flowy and organic. Go go Scandinavian building designs!!

By the way, have you guys ever heard of this website?
www.northerngateway.no

It talks about some of the proposals for Tromsø (including the one from the Space Group).

Hotell in Hundvåg not far from Stavanger

http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00232/ACCamera_jpg_232881i.jpg

Design is to be "maritime" and the building is supposed to look like old fishing net racks. Most of the building will be on poles, and as much as two thirds are going to be on water!

Article in Stavanger Aftenblad (http://www.aftenbladet.no/lokalt/article663697.ece).

I really like the look of all the construction projects in Norway. They feel so flowy and organic. Go go Scandinavian building designs!!

By the way, have you guys ever heard of this website?
www.northerngateway.no

It talks about some of the proposals for Tromsø (including the one from the Space Group).

Norwegian architecture have really gotten 10 times better in just a few years now, last 3-4 years have been amazing, before that a lot of it sucked!

Hope they come up with something about Prostneset soon. Haven't heard a word since 2003 when it won the competition, yet its fully avaliable on several websites.

Berg studentby in Trondheim:
http://www.arkitektur.no/?nid=5918&lcid=1044&iid=7867&pid=11003.-20201&r_n_d=4719_&adjust=1&x=895&y=670&bgc=255255255&zmode=fit
Completion 2010?

A change in planns apparently. Project is getting too expencive, looks like the entire project goes down now. So the old and really bad student apartments from the 60's will have to do a few more decades, and the student-apartment crisis in Trondheim continues.

Berg studentby kan bli droppet (http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/okonomi/article1116735.ece) - Adressa.no

^^

looks nice.

Marintek, part of the Sintef research groups, recently presented their plans for a gigantic floating research lab (submarine and wave tank test fascilities), visitor center and tower just outside the Trondheim harbor:
http://www.adressa.no/multimedia/archive/01026/visjon3kopi_1026182b.jpg
http://www.adressa.no/multimedia/archive/01026/visjon5_1026184b.jpg
http://www.adressa.no/multimedia/archive/01026/visjon1_1026183b.jpg
Price tag? According to the Marintek CEO two opera houses or half a winter olympics....we will see what happens.

More about the plans, including a video, can be found here (http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/sjosiden/article1112829.ece).

^^ Cool project, will be interesting to see what happends with it!

I posted it in the high-rise section though, since its considered a high-rise building, even though i don't know its real height, but i bet its much over 35m.

Sorry, I did not check that thread and hence did not notice your post. I think it is way too early to speculate about the height of the project at this stage, but 35 m is not much, if that is the threshold for "highrise".

Ålesund rådhus crumbling concrete needs a renovation, it might get a large glass-fasade:
http://smimg.no.publicus.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Avis=SM&Dato=20080611&Kategori=NYHETER&Lopenr=715425452&Ref=AR&MaxW=468&NoBorder
http://www.smp.no.htest.osl.basefarm.net/article/20080611/NYHETER/715425452

The Green party in Bergen has their own idea of decorating their grey box city hall:
http://www.bt.no/multimedia/archive/00348/637023__Bergens_nye_348287c.jpg
http://www.bt.no/lokalt/bergen/tettpa/article387363.ece

Ålesund rådhus crumbling concrete needs a renovation, it might get a large glass-fasade:
http://smimg.no.publicus.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Avis=SM&Dato=20080611&Kategori=NYHETER&Lopenr=715425452&Ref=AR&MaxW=468&NoBorder
http://www.smp.no.htest.osl.basefarm.net/article/20080611/NYHETER/715425452

Well, something need to be done since it looks like this today:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Norway%20and%20Nature/DSC_0319small.jpg


The Green party in Bergen has their own idea of decorating their grey box city hall:
http://www.bt.no/multimedia/archive/00348/637023__Bergens_nye_348287c.jpg
http://www.bt.no/lokalt/bergen/tettpa/article387363.ece

Haha, Bergen Rådhus is not a beautiful building, but making it grean like that won't work for real!

They could make a cool pathern... =) Would be a really cool job to garden it.. ;D

Ålesund rådhus crumbling concrete needs a renovation, it might get a large glass-fasade:
http://smimg.no.publicus.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Avis=SM&Dato=20080611&Kategori=NYHETER&Lopenr=715425452&Ref=AR&MaxW=468&NoBorder
http://www.smp.no.htest.osl.basefarm.net/article/20080611/NYHETER/715425452

The Green party in Bergen has their own idea of decorating their grey box city hall:
http://www.bt.no/multimedia/archive/00348/637023__Bergens_nye_348287c.jpg
http://www.bt.no/lokalt/bergen/tettpa/article387363.ece

Christ, those are both horrible IMO. What's wrong with concrete?

Btw, that post of your would fit better in the high-rise thread! :D

Anyway, Hardangerbrua competition is hot, and a record of companies who wants to build the bridge have signed up! 31 companies from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, USA, Japan, UK, Czech Republic and South Korea is on the list. Construction company will be elected in early November. After that i assume we will see this one under construction shortly after!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/cityx/Architecture/Hardangerbrua1.jpg

Nice! This project has moved very slow so far.

[QUOTE=Þróndeimr;19698524]
Brattøra Hotel
Trondheim city council has deceided to stop the Brattøra hotel for now. Its too massive, and need to be reduced in height before they will make a final decission. So now its up to the developers again.[QUOTE]

Bad news again. Now the city council have change their opinion again. They say the building have to get 2 floor lower. Originally the hotel was approved with 7 floors. Then massive opposition forced them to go down 1 floor, but increase its lenght to maximum. Now they say it will look like a gigantic wall, blocking the view to the fjord from those who live on Byåsen and Møllenberg. Developers say there will be nothing left if they reduce it that much, and threaten to leave the project.

Crazy really, its already mucm lover than the surrounding buildings, and they want to reduce it in height! :bash:

Original 7 floor proposal:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/BrattraHotel2smallx.jpg

Yeah, 7-floors is so tall! Of course it has to be redrawn.

Yeah, 7-floors is so tall! Of course it has to be redrawn.

Yeah, i thought 1 floor down was crazy, but now we're down 3 floors to 4 floors. The hotel (was planned to be the largest in Trondheim) is now almost half its original size (and far from the biggest!), and much smaller than the first proposed 20 floor tall building back in 05'!

The council has already approved a masterplann with ten to 15 buildings from 4 to 10 floors all around the hotel. The hotel won't be visible even with 7 floors.

In the future, all hotels in Norway must be built underground, to avoid blocking anyone's view.

Atleast there's some good news from other parts of Norway, Kilden will be built with the wavey wall, AF-gruppen has come with a new much lower bid... They will have it ready in 3 years time, states this article:
http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/sorlandet/1.6202067
http://www.nrk.no/contentfile/file/1.4252391!img4252373.jpg

^^ About time, since it was supose to be completed by now!

Some stuff from Stavanger/Sandnes:

Vestre Svanholmen 4, office building by Seabrokers group:
http://www.seabrokers-group.com/bilder/produkt/vsh4_02.jpg
http://www.jaerbetong.no/asbetong/seabroker/store/DSCN1087.jpg

Hinna park:
http://www.hinnapark.no/images/Hinna-Park-oversikt.jpg
http://www3.scriptor.no/kruise-smith.no/db/repository/x280520085257.jpg
http://www3.scriptor.no/kruise-smith.no/db/repository/x2805200828850.jpg
http://ensign.fiko.no/hinnapark.no/html/wimages/Hinnapark_01.jpg
http://ensign.fiko.no/hinnapark.no/html/wimages/Hinnapark_02.jpg
http://ensign.fiko.no/hinnapark.no/html/wimages/Hinnapark_03.jpg
http://ensign.fiko.no/hinnapark.no/html/wimages/Hinnapark_04.jpg
http://ensign.fiko.no/hinnapark.no/html/wimages/Fjordpiren_01.jpg
http://ensign.fiko.no/hinnapark.no/html/wimages/Fjordpiren_02.jpg
http://ensign.fiko.no/hinnapark.no/html/wimages/Hinnapluss_01.jpg

Hanapiren:
http://mfx-win02.osl.basefarm.net/mpe/2008/08/28/emprof__/3a25902c-b054-44ec-8ae6-162dac28e00f_largeimage.jpg

Vågen brygge:
http://www.bygg.no/image/1223/1/4/1223_1.jpg

Rundeskogen:
http://www.modellbygg.no/images/modell03.jpg

Found some cool high-rise proposals in this blog:
http://rolerbloggen.blogspot.com/search/label/arkitektur
Haugesund:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/Haugesundhoyhus1.jpg

Hamar is engaging the people in a high-rise debate, by 2009 Hamar will have a high-rise plan:
http://www.hamar.kommune.no/category4482.html
Status for high-rises in Hamar: 10 floor building approved by the town main square.
http://www.nrk.no/contentfile/file/1.2643604!img2643585.jpg

Found some cool high-rise proposals in this blog:
http://rolerbloggen.blogspot.com/search/label/arkitektur
Haugesund:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/Haugesundhoyhus1.jpg

Hamar is engaging the people in a high-rise debate, by 2009 Hamar will have a high-rise plan:
http://www.hamar.kommune.no/category4482.html
Status for high-rises in Hamar: 10 floor building approved by the town main square.
http://www.nrk.no/contentfile/file/1.2643604!img2643585.jpg

He stole all those blog renderings from my old Norway construction and developments thread! Haugesund building (60m) is an old and rejected proposal from 2005. ;)

I remember i made this back then! :P
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/cityx/Other/Newsletterlink1.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/cityx/Other/NovemberNewsletter.jpg)

That Hamar proposal was 12 floors, but went down to 10 floors, was approved a year ago as far as i know. So they reject all the cool highrise proposals and approve the ugliest and simplest highrise (its actually a lowrise now but)!

Ohh I like this one...

http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00213/fasadenutenpa_jpg_213921i.jpg

Reminds me a lot of the Olympic stadium in Beijing.

totally, looks like a cross between the bird's nest and the water cube! :D

^^I'd love to visit one day, not as a tourist. But rather, as an international student.

awesome, that makes two of us!!!! :)

Well it looks like Kvadrat(shopping mall in Stavanger region) wants to "expand".
Here is some links:NA24 (http://aftenbladet.no/innenriks/okonomi/article643960.ece),Steen og Strøm (http://www.steenstrom.com/Steenstrom2/templates/page.aspx?id=18804)
http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00226/cci-Aft-20080523-1-_226102a.jpg

^^ Fits better in the highrise thread, since this is ment for lower projects etc. :)

Anyway, cool to see a render, since i think its been half a year ago since i heard about this in a aftenbladet article! So today's 155 stores (largest in Norway in number of stores) isn't enough? That means this mall will have 225 stores if the expanding goes as planned. And in the future you will be able to sleep at a tall hotel on the shopping malls roof so you can shop for several days!? :D

^^I don't think that specifically is the case, but it seems as Steen & Strøm has really got their eyes opened for hotels incorporated in shopping malls. Though a mall very rarely is a destination in itself, it is very easy for people staying at this hotel to just take a elevator-ride down if they have a spare hour or two. S&S has, as we know, similar projects going on both in Økern, Oslo and in Vinterbro, Ås.

Btw, Sandvika Storsenter is Norway's (and Scandinavia's) largest mall by number of stores. They have some 190 stores today.

Thru, but when it comes to sqm, it's Nordstan in Gothenburg... ;D
Nordstan: 320 000 m²
Sandvika: 60 000 m²
Kvadrat: 85 000 m²

There is a slim chance of this getting trough, they argue with a carbon-neutral building mass, and a new transit terminal will get built.

Hmm, I've been to Nordstan in Gothenburg and it surely didn't feel that big! To be honest it felt smaller than Sandvika.

And infact, when looking at their pdf-factsheet, it shows that shopping and restaurant-area is on 70 000 m². http://www.nordstan.se/om_nordstan/pdf/Faktablad2008.pdf

320.000 is probably the total area of all the buildings with all the offices. And with that included, Sandvika is also alot bigger.

I guess Sandvika feels so big because it is so looong. It's more than 1 km from end to end.

Looked at Sandvikas homepage now, and yes, they sure got big after they expanded! Only been to the old section yet.

Hotel in Tønsberg. I thinks it nice that they can make building which follow the tradition sometimes to http://tb.no/article/20080923/NYHETER/754005723/1011/NYHETER

Some master planning renderings of a larger development project close to downtown Stavanger. Aker will build a new large office building there which they plan to be completed with already in 2011. Entire project will consist of 50% office space, 20% residentials and 30% cultural/shopping usage.

http://web3.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/archive/00222/cci-Aft-20080502-1-_222108i.jpg

Aker Solutions has turned and won't build theire new office in Paradis, Stavanger after all. Aker blames the delays in the plans, and the recession in the market. ROM eiendom is now on the look for a new partner for this project.

http://mm.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/dynamic/00233/flyfotoakerkverner__233000c.jpg

^^ Jernbaneverket has also been pretty tricky with their plot and given Aker big problems. Too bad for Stavanger and the site, which has a big opportunity, hopefully they will figure out something soon.

yeah. But I kind of agree with antagonists and neighbours. They what a new part of town with life. The plans Aker have made means 80% offices, and that will make the area dead in the evenings and nights.

http://www.aftenbladet.no/lokalt/919431/&ndash%3B_La_Paradis_leve,_gi_oss_en_levende_bydel.html

^^ True, but one have to consider a few things. Stavanger needs a lot of working places to attract new residents. And with Forus developing into their main CBD people will find it easier and cheaper to live outside the city of Stavanger, since Forus is situated on the border between Stavanger/Sandnes and Sola. And not to mention todays residential market which is almost in a crisis. Developers don't build residentials if there is no people to buy them.

So then they have to wait a few years before anything can happend, as we have been since the 80's when they first started thinking about redevelopment at that site.

^^ True, but one have to consider a few things. Stavanger needs a lot of working places to attract new residents. And with Forus developing into their main CBD people will find it easier and cheaper to live outside the city of Stavanger, since Forus is situated on the border between Stavanger/Sandnes and Sola. And not to mention todays residential market which is almost in a crisis. Developers don't build residentials if there is no people to buy them.

So then they have to wait a few years before anything can happend, as we have been since the 80's when they first started thinking about redevelopment at that site.

4 suggestions to Borgarsyssel museum in Sarpsborg:
Some more spectacular than others:
http://www.ostfoldmuseet.no/admin/common/GetImg2.asp?FileID=1822&xsize=1000
-Østmangfold.

Check out all of them here:
http://www.ostfoldmuseet.no/?ItemID=1487

^^ nice suggestions, though Østmangfold is by far my favorite among all of them!

No doubt about that, altough it looks more expensive, forcing them to chose one of the more simple suggestions... Let's hope i'm wrong!

Aker Solutions has turned and won't build theire new office in Paradis, Stavanger after all. Aker blames the delays in the plans, and the recession in the market. ROM eiendom is now on the look for a new partner for this project.


Today the municipal council of Stavanger states that the regulating process of Paradis will be delayed until next year, after Aker pulled out. ROM eiendom protests of course.

http://www.aftenbladet.no/lokalt/stavanger/933758/Paradis-planen_utsettes_til_neste_aar.html

Paradis goods terminal as it appears today:
http://mm.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/dynamic/00250/cci-Aft-20081022-1-_250290m.jpg

Those are some nice twin towers! How come i haven't seen them before?!;P

Hotel-project in Løkkeveien, Stavanger has to cut one floor in their proposal, says board of city development in Stavanger. The building is 2-3 meters to tall in all directions. The board says that they still have to keep the "wavey" roof-shape.

http://mm.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/dynamic/00250/cci-Aft-20081024-1-_250643m.jpg

http://www.aftenbladet.no/lokalt/934934/Loekkevei-hotell_mister_én_etasje.html

Yeah, 5 and 6 floors is way too tall, i completly agree. Just look at the rendering, it will totally dominate the nabourhood with its 40m (11 floors) tall nabouring commieblock... :ohno: :bash:

Went to Bessakerfjellet Vindmøllepark today, the second largest windmillpark in Norway which was opened this month. 25 windmills been 64.5m tall, with rotors been 71m in diameter.

Something like this completly changes the face of the natural scenery. When you have been working in the village right next to before it was built and head back now you stop your car a second at the first sight of the park! Its spectacular, its art, though i am against building many more of these at similar places. Hopefully the future will be huge windmillparks far out in the oceans!

Further planns is several huge windmillparks on Fosen, though massive opposition has stopped over half of them the last year.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/cityw/Trondelag/DSC_0117xx1024.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/cityw/Trondelag/DSC_0127xx1024.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/cityw/Trondelag/DSC_0073small-1.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/cityw/Trondelag/DSC_0087small-1.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/cityw/Trondelag/DSC_0072small.jpg

^^

Stunning pictures Þróndeimr!

Yes, fantastic pictures. You are just getting better and better!

I guess its a pretty nice place for windmills with much wind :)
Nice pictures yes!

The new rock city hotel in Namsos:

http://gfx.api.no/image-versions/www.namdalsavisa.no/m/02222/1225056365631_hotell_2222613m.jpg

Construction start in may 2009 with completion summer 2010.
http://www.namdalsavisa.no/Nyhet/article3879430.ece

Tromsø projects: They will not get the Olympic games, but other stuff is going on;D

Buchardts hotel:

http://gfx.api.no/image-versions/www.nordlys.no/510x510r/02201/1224049418426_snohetta4_2201416510x510r.jpg

http://www.nordlys.no/nyheter/article3852841.ece

New firestation:

http://www.itromso.no/multimedia/archive/00182/brann3_jpg_182423i.jpg

http://www.itromso.no/nyheter/article188429.ece#debattstart

Prostneset, new harbour terminal:

http://www.itromso.no/multimedia/archive/00150/Prostneset_150698i.jpg

http://www.framtidinord.no/nyheter/article166128.ece

Domus:

http://www.itromso.no/multimedia/archive/00186/Nye_Domus___stikk_i_186027i.jpg

http://www.itromso.no/nyheter/article190905.ece

An oldie in Hamar by Vandkunsten seems to finally be getting under way:

Link (http://www.vandkunsten.com/public_site/webroot/cache/article/file/pressemeddelse_hamar.pdf)

In Bryne, the architect firm Helen & Hard has propsed a new construction (http://www.aftenbladet.no/lokalt/article566245.ece) for the regions youth.
http://mm.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/dynamic/00200/HHA_BRYNE_SKISSE-4__200535m.jpg

And in Sandnes municipality invited 5 architects to brainstorm new ideas (http://www.aftenbladet.no/lokalt/939350/Slik_skal_Sandnes_bli_ny_by.html)about how they could change Sandnes centrum.

In Hamarøy, Nordland. Steven Holls Hamsunsenteret dedicated to the nobel prize winning writer, Knut Hamsun.
It's under construction, it will be ready to open 4.august 2009:

http://www.hamsunsenteret.no/

http://www2.digibib.no/hamsunsenteret/hamsunsenteret.jpg
http://www.nrk.no/contentfile/file/1.1978070!img1978013.jpg

The Weidemannhotel is approved in Steinkjer even tough there has been protests:
http://tsimg.no.publicus.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Avis=TS&Dato=20081112&Kategori=KULTUR&Lopenr=897525273&Ref=AR&Border=0&MaxW=468&MaxH=640&Q=100
It will be 30 meters high with 7 floors.

http://www.t-a.no/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081112/KULTUR/897525273

Geilo Kulturkirke:
Will have a gras-roof going all the way to the ground and a 30 meter high tower.
Construction started in oktober and will be finished in oktober 2010. (Info from construction magasine, byggeindustrien)
http://www.geilokulturkirke.no/

http://www.geilokulturkirke.no/modules/PagEd/pictures/Akvarell_sommer_l.jpg

Domus-building in Mosjøen, architectcompetion:
http://www.helgeland-arbeiderblad.no/kultur/article3916610.ece
A lot of different ideas in this one...
http://gfx.api.no/image-versions/www.helgeland-arbeiderblad.no/510x510r/02252/1226406363046_3655980032_2252673510x510r.jpg

Maybe I'm a little retarded or temporarily blind or something but I couldn't find anything about the height or construction start at the church' homepage

Yes, i'm sorry about that Kjetilab, i read about it in the yellow pages of Byggeindustrien magasine!

Aha! That explains it. Then I'm not retarded after all;)

That church highly reminds me of the Nordlys cathedral in Alta. Someone has to have been inspired by someone...

Ofcourse not, sorry for confusing you! Next time i'll write where the info is from=)

Now you can see both Oslo and Trondheim in 3D (http://sesam.no/).

http://bygg.no/id/38721?bannerfolder=22118&toppbannerfolder=22119

Finally some good news for the construction business

Stavanger and Sandnes maybe connected by a 13 km long bike-highway parallell to E39, at the cost of 200 - 350 million kroner. It will be 4 meters wide and will include a 350 meter tunnel and bridges/underpasses separating it from all cars and pedestrians.

http://mm.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/dynamic/00256/Sykkelstamvei_256049c.jpg

http://web3.aftenbladet.no/lokalt/950852/4_meter_bred_sykkel-motorvei_langs_E_39.html

I have a hard time seeing how this bike "highway" (the expression "motorway" would be a bit misplaced, though it actually is an extension of "Motorvegen":nuts:) would be samfunnsøkonomisk. But whatever... Maybe this can scare of similar ideas in other parts of the country when it turns out to be a fiasco.

Btw. this should probably be in the infrastructure-thread.

They basicly hope it will turn 1000 (5%) Forus-bikers into 4000 (20%), that is a very high number, so i guess it is a strech suitable for a high-speed bikepath. But it's hard to predict, so we will just have to wait and see, unlike you, i really hope it turns out a succes, wich i think it will, since bikers will probably save time in comparison to driving during rush-hour! When have ever bikeprojects or publictransport projects been economicly defendable anyhow? They still get built to the joy of often only a handfull bikers and walkers in the districts.

http://www.aftenbladet.no/lokalt/951428/%26ndash%3B_En_%26laquo%3Bsykkel-motorvei%26raquo%3B_vil_gi_firedobling_av_syklister.html

http://bildr.no/thumb/293977.jpeg (http://bildr.no/view/293977) What is this project called? Seen picture from it but no names except that its a part of "urban sjøfront Stavanger" Looks pretty huge.

Never noticed that one. Well, here is a website (http://www.ostpluss.no/urban/public/openIndex?ARTICLE_ID=113). Hope its not going to be affected by the financial crisis. :shifty:

Yeah, that is Urban Sjøfront, a masterplan from 2004 or so, from the era when Oslo came with Fjordcity, Bergen with their Harbourcity and Stavanger with this one. Its gonna look very different than that, with 4 highrises in a clauster at Lervik Brygge and those Norwegian wood houses (Siriskjær) which is brilliant.

Single projects such as Badedammen, Startbo, Stavanger Brygge and Store Blå was kinda the first big construction phase.

There is a old and shitty thread about Urban Sjøfront btw, with some more info, but not much and old! Urban Sjøfron-thread (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=179686)

New hotel and office-project in Stavanger, next to their concert house. The municipal board dismisses the case now because of insufficient papers. The company doesn't seem that professional, but the project looks interesting.

http://mm.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/dynamic/00256/Hotell-tanke-svilan_256784m.jpg

http://www.aftenbladet.no/lokalt/stavanger/953244/Konserthuset_kan_faa_ni_etasjer_hoey_hotellnabo.html

Vil gjemme bilene og gi folket uterom (http://www.aftenbladet.no/lokalt/stavanger/953984/Vil_gjemme_bilene_og_gi_folket_uterom.html)

Blir Snøhettas mulighetsskisse til virkelighet, skal man kunne gå oppover Straen-senterets tak omtrent som på taket til Operaen i Oslo. Til park- platåer i forskjellige nivå.
http://mm.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/dynamic/00257/Ankerkvartalet_257103m.jpg

I noticed this articel (http://www.aftenbladet.no/lokalt/238628/_Ankertorget_som_storstue_.html) from 2005. Is it the same area with a new proposal?
http://mm.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/dynamic/00104/anker_104869m.jpg

Is it the same area with a new proposal?

Aren't you the local?

Aren't you the local?
Yes,i am. When i look at the picture it looks like a new proposal for the same area. But i got i little confused with all the different names, i didn`t think that Straen was on the pictures.
Well i am glad that they are thinking of doing something with those buildings they are really ugly.:)

Appartment sales in prestigous project in Stavanger is going badly. "Egenes park", which is one of the Norwegian Wood projects made for Stavanger European capital of culture 2008, has only sold 15 out of 56 appartments, even though the project closes to its completion. The developer now wants to hold an auction to sell the rest and also draw attention.

http://mm.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/dynamic/00258/Aksjon_258757m.jpg

From Stavanger 2008 about Norwegian wood:

Did you know that Stavanger has the highest concentration of wooden houses in northern Europe?

The idea behind the project Norwegian Wood is to develop Stavanger's old, wooden architecture further with urban, modern and sustainable wooden architecture interacting with the historical parts of town. The project shall help put Norway and the Stavanger region on the European architectural map, to ensure that the region in 2008 is in the forefront in Europe as regards modern, environmentally-conscious wooden architecture.

The core activity of Norwegian Wood is a series of building projects that will be completed by August 2008. The project has invited some of the most prominent architects and engineers who work in wood to compete for these building projects that will make Norwegian Wood an international showcase for the entire construction industry.

The building projects must
-be innovative in their use of wood
-possess high architectural quality
-ensure good building practice with regard to universal design
-maintain high environmental ambitions in their use of energy and materials.

Latest construction report shows that there is a decrease in construction activity in all Norwegian counties exept:

Aust-Agder
Nord Trøndelag
Nordland

Troms have gone down with 69%, and the average in Norway is a decrease on 21.4% on residential construction.

A big development in Bergen is comming up. DNB Nor have deceided to move all their offices into one big complex in downtown Bergen. It will become the largest office-building in Bergen with 1800 working places.

Perhaps a highrise?

Planlegger gigantisk bankbygg
Bergens største kontorbygg skal reises i Solheimsviken Næringspark. I byggeperioden vil rundt 1000 årsverk bli sysselsatt.

GC Rieber Eiendom har gjort en foreløpig avtale om å bygge nytt bankbygg for DnB NOR og datterselskapet Vital Forsikring.

Bygget planlegges for 1800 ansatte som i dag har sine arbeidsplasser på en rekke forskjellige steder i Bergen. Ifølge administrerende direktør Bjart Nygaard i GC Rieber Eiendom AS vil bygget koste et sted mellom 800 og 900 millioner kroner. Det skal utlyses arkitektkonkurranse.

Like over nyttår skal det utlyses en arkitektkonkurranse. Straks den er avgjort blir det ifølge Nygaard sendt byggesøknad til kommunen.

More: http://www.bt.no/na24/article674701.ece

GC Rieber Eiendoms is also planning a hotel next to this with 200 rooms, and a office park. The development zone which isn't too big in area is planned to room some 4000 working places.

"Det nye DnB NOR-bygget blir på tre- fire etasjer som er regulert byggehøyde i dette området." 3-4 floors! This will be one ugly and huge blobb and a nice area will be scared... =(

^^ think i skipped that sentance! Must admit, i had higher hopes than a gigantic 3-4 floor tall box. It will look like a huge factory building then.

Luckily they will have a competion about it, maybe some architect has a brilliant idea on how to solve this, maybe they can make an open DnB-nor village with a lot of variation, small streets and integrated with other facilities...;D

Better renderings of Arthur Buchardts proposed hotel in Tromsø which Snøhetta AS is behind.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/TromsHotel1small.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/TromsHotel2small.jpg

TU.no has made a overview (http://web.tu.no/byggeprosjekter/) over different building projects and developments,that is going to start in the next 6 months. Only in Rogaland they are going to build for 8 billion NOK.
Really interesting!

^^ haven't seen that one before, indeed interesting. :)

See pictures of Forus from the sky,with descriptions of each picture.
Here! (http://www.aftenbladet.no/bildegallerier/article964428.ece)

Nice building. It reminds me of this building in Nuuk:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr-simpson/2465323150/sizes/l/

The winning proposal for Luftfartstilsynet in Bodø:

http://www.nrk.no/contentfile/file/1.6384215!f169CropList/img650x367.jpg

http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nordland/1.6384268

Planned to be completed in 2011.

The other proposals:
http://go.api.no/go/e/m/http://www.an.no/bildeserier/article3445982.ece

^^I'm not quite sure of what to make of that building. Is it extraordinary or just plain weird? It looks from the angel in the picture that there is a beak on it. Would love to see it from more angels.

I like every design that I've seen here. Very nice all the projects for Norway ;)

Not sure if this has been reported already somewhere.

Property developer Seabrokers wants a World Trade Centre in Stavanger urban area (Forus). Seabrokers are a paying member of the World Trade Centre network. The drawings are of a building of 34 floors, and the developers are well aware that this is higher than the current regulations allow.

http://www.rogalandsavis.no/nyheter/article4031219.ece

http://gfx.api.no/image-versions/www.rogavis.no/m/02349/1231308022000_07nyhWTC_2349757m.jpg

BTW: The shorter building is Føniks (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=553238), not a part of the WTC project/dream and is described in a separate thread.

http://gfx.api.no/image-versions/www.rogavis.no/n/02349/1231307880000_20090107-065612-pi_2349744n.jpg

^^There is a thread called Norwegian Highrises that the update would've fitted better in. The news have also gotten it's own thread in the highrise-section of N&B too, though it might be a little early on in the process.

This is way too tall.
http://mm.aftenbladet.no/multimedia/dynamic/00263/Hotell_263655m.jpg

I wrote about it earlier in 2008. The city council in Stavanger made it clear they would never approve it unless it got lowered by 1 more floor. But Two Seasons Hotel have made it clear they will not go through unless they get the space they need and was promised before the hotel proposals came through.

So this evening it was up again and 9 out of 11 voters gave it thumbs up with the original number of floors. Only Venstre and SV was against it and is very dissapointed with the case.

The winning proposal for Luftfartstilsynet in Bodø:

]http://www.nrk.no/contentfile/file/1.6384215!f169CropList/img650x367.jpg

http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nordland/1.6384268

Planned to be completed in 2011.

The other proposals:
http://go.api.no/go/e/m/http://www.an.no/bildeserier/article3445982.ece

Here's a more comprehensive render:
http://www.arkitektnytt.no/images/crop/luftfartstilsynet.jpg

Ørlandet have deceided on building a 3km long undersea tunnel to Stor-Fosna connecting 220 people to mainland. The tunnel will cost 182 mio NOK and will be completed in 2012.

Good news for poor Fosen! :P

Thats crazy. Allmost 1 million for each peson :o

^^ not crazy i would say, same as most other project. Most expencive road project ever for Fosen region since Skarnsundsbrua.

Rif has made a list over 113 projects that can be boosted to ease the crisis in the construction business, this gives you the level of planning done and possible construction start for all projects:

http://www.bygg.no/asset/8508/1/Rif+prosjektene.pdf.pdf

^^ Awesome, seems like we're meeting the crisis in a well-handeled way, could be much worse. Good things is scattered over most of the country, not just the bigger cities.

Nice to see Hålogalandbrua on the list, was afraid that project died with the Tromsø Olympics.

Wow,amazing. And they are actually are constructing these projects too(?)
Looks like 2009 is going to be a record constructing year.

Well, no... It's the Engineers wishing list.. It's all up to the government:D I think Narvik really want to use the other shore bank to sprawl out all over, and they need the bridge in order to do that, i really hope the Brosymfoniconcept prooves to be a good one for longer spans, and we could get them across our deeper fjords:D

^^ well some politicians on Fosen started on the fjord-crossing vision again this week and want a bridge between Flakk-Rørvik where the ferries goes today. Might be a good project to use 20mrd on just for fun not in this down-times huh?

Its just 9km across, 520m deep and need a shipping height on 150m since they are towing in platforms to Verdal. Have a brilliant chance to show the world a ultimate construction while all other construction masterpieces is on hold in lack of money! ;)

Believe it or not but Hardangerbrua is in crisis again. It started with the competition where the Danish company MT Højgaard won the steel-work on the bridge to a price on 761 million NOK. The three other competirors landed on 1.2 - 1.3 billion NOK. So they have complained uppon the matter since MT Højgaard was so much lower.

Problem is that now MT Højgaard have figured out they have done the wrong calculations and is pulling out of the bridge. This will now go into a trial which is likely to take awhile. Hardangerbrua is once again delayed.

Some Hardangerbrua renderings again.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/Hardangerbrua2small.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/Hardangerbrua3small.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/Hardangerbrua4small.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/TunnelVallavik3small.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/TunnelVallavik2small.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/UtformingTunnelsmall.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/Hardangerbrua1small.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/Hardangerbrua5xFixsmall.jpg

http://www.spor.no/index.aspx?cat=1271&maincat=4&mid=-1&id=1826

Welcome Mr. Love Architectur. :D From Oslo?

Dont like those apartments buildings, too surburb for Nydalen :(

http://www.lpo.no/prosjekter/marienfryd-article115-110.html


Hello everybody. I am brand new to posting news on these sites, but have followed the updates for a long time. Very and truly fantastic page for people interested in development areas in and around Norway and the world at large.

Will continue to post news about projects that i visit and find pictures of i the future. Have missed updates from a lot of the home pages of architect pages in Norway and plan og bygningsetaten. If they could only publicly open the pages over the weekly approved projects and such. They can be seen if youre in their building, but not over the net.

Am fantastickly amazed over the architecture in Barcode for the moment and am looking very much forward to seeing this area develop further on. Look to www.pfx.no if youre interested in some new and fantastic good layouts over specially the new Dnb Nor HQ.

Yes, live in Oslo. And have done so for the last 10 years. Originally from Kr.sund, but as you probably know, not a lot of development going on there. Big fan of following projects, and especially if they post webcams and good drawings of their buildings. Sad to say theres been a lot less to follow the past year or so.

And yes, i think that Oslo would profit (generally and as a city) if the planning of city quartals would extend their limits to a lot bigger geographical area than they do today. The city is growing very fast, and eventually they will have to go into areas that have a great variety of buildings. Over time i feel that a lot more of groruddalen, lodalen, økern, bjerke should i a larger picture be included in i city landscape. Cause lets face it, eventually it will become highly and densely populated. And i think we would be better served if there were a really really long time plan over it all. I mean, look a Paris.

Well, then your come to the right place, much to read in the Oslo thread and fjordbyen thread, hope you will be active on the forum :)

I have the exact same ideology as you have, and some of us is about to start a website "yimby.no" which will work and hopefully be heard by the politicans.

Yimby is a swedish idea, you can read here http://yimby.se/om-oss/ what it is about.

Believe it or not but Hardangerbrua is in crisis again. It started with the competition where the Danish company MT Højgaard won the steel-work on the bridge to a price on 761 million NOK. The three other competirors landed on 1.2 - 1.3 billion NOK. So they have complained uppon the matter since MT Højgaard was so much lower.

Problem is that now MT Højgaard have figured out they have done the wrong calculations and is pulling out of the bridge. This will now go into a trial which is likely to take awhile. Hardangerbrua is once again delayed.

According to bygg.no, all three contractors signed the deal today. AF Gruppen will start with their part of the project already in March they say. Any idea if things have changed?

http://www.vegvesen.no/Vegprosjekter/Hardangerbrua/Nyhetsarkiv/75550.cms
http://bygg.no/id/40892

Welcome, Mr. Love Architectur!


Midt på dagen i dag, tysdag 27. januar, vart kontraktane for Hardangerbrua underteikna i Vallavik, der anleggskontoret ligg.

AF Skandinavia, eller AF Gruppen som dei no kallar seg, underteikna kontrakt for tilførslevegane på begge sider av fjorden. Pris: 310 millionar kroner.

Veidekke underteikna kontrakten for betongarbeidet, altså brutårna. Pris: 331 millionar kroner.

Nord-Europa-direktør for Højgaard, Christian Levinsen, seier til bt.no at han er «komfortabel» med prisen dei har tilbode Statens vegvesen, altså 761 millionar kroner.

Kvass protest
Samstundes protesterer selskapet American Bridge kvasst mot underteikninga. Selskapet har levert ei klage på tildeinga av stålooppdraget på Hardangerbrua til Højgaard. Statens vegvesen gav svar på klaga måndag kveld.

American Bridge sin representant, Arne Røen på Voss, seier at dei no vil vurdera korleis dei skal gå vidare med saka. American Bridge har engasjert advokatkontoret Vogt & Wiig.

– Eg fekk vita frå advokaten at vegvesenet hadde avvist klaga. Det fylgde ei slags grunngjeving, men det var ikkje mykje å byggja på. No får vi ta nokre dagar og tenkja over kva vi skal gjera, seier Arne Røen.

Søksmål mot Statens vegvesen om erstatning kan koma på tale.

Litt justering
Det har kome fram at Højgaard gjennom fleire brev til Statens vegvesen har har prøvd å få i gang forhandlingar om diverse tillegg til den prisen dei kom med i tilbodet på Hardangerbrua. Højgaard har vist til reknefeil og uheldiga utslag av valutasvingingar, m.a. fall i kursen på den norske krona.

Regionvegsjef Olav Ellevset seier til bt.no at slike ting ikkje kan diskuterast før etter at kontrakten i underteikna. No vil Højgaard og Statens vegvesen setja seg ned og sjå nærare på dette. Og Ellevset held døra på glytt for at prisen til Højgaard kan justerast litt oppover.

Det er likevel mykje å gå på før Højgaard sin pris nærmar seg næraste konkurrent, som var American Bridge. Avstanden er 370 millionar kroner.

På plass i februar
Det er AF Gruppen som startar arbeidet med Hardangerbrua. Selskapet skal byggja tilførslevegar og tunnelar både i Vallavik og på Bu. AFGruppen opplyser til bt.no at dei vil starta rigginga i Vallavik 15. februar, og vera i gang med arbeidet tidleg i mars.

But it doesn't end there, American bridge is pissed off:

Statens vegvesen tviholder på det danske lavpristilbudet for Hardangerbrua, som gir Vegvesenet nesten 400 millioner kroner på et sølvfat. Tross protester skal kontrakten signeres i dag.

Kai-Inge Melkeraaen

ODDA: Utover dagen i går ventet American Bridge Norway AS på et tilsvar fra Statens vegvesen på klagen mot at storkontrakten går til danske MT Højgaard. Den kom ikke.

I stedet sendte Statens veg- vesen ut en pressemelding om at kontraktene for byggingen av Hardangerbrua skal underskrives på anleggskontoret i Vallavik i dag klokken 11.30. Det betyr bråk.

– Vi får ingen som helst tid til å vurdere det svaret de kommer med før de skriver under. Dette er et råkjør – aldeles uforsvarlig. Jeg kan ikke forstå at et statlig organ kan være bekjent av å drive en sånn saksbehandling som dette. Dersom dette hadde vært et privat firma som hadde drevet det på denne måten, hadde det blitt rama-skrik, sier senioringeniør i American Bridge, Arne Røen.

– Den blir behandlet på vanlig måte, sier regionveisjef Olav Ellevset, som nøyer seg med å si at svar på klagen vil foreligge "med det første".
Stort erstatningskrav

Med forbehold om advokatenes anbefaling, sier Røen at American Bridge er innstilt på å kjøre erstatningssøksmål mot Statens vegvesen.

– Da kan vi tjene like mye på det som å gjøre jobben, legger han til.

Advokatene er ifølge Røen kommet til at Statens vegvesen har brutt regelverket for offentlige anskaffelser. MT Højgaard skulle vært avvist, og jobben skulle vært tildelt American Bridge.

Dersom kontrakten underskrives i formiddag, kan advokatselskapet Vogt & Wiig komme til å gå til retten med begjær-ing om midlertidig forføyning ganske umiddelbart. Røen bekrefter overfor Haugesunds Avis i går at dette kan bli aktuelt.
– Total forakt for regelverk

Ett av ankepunktene er at Statens vegvesen selv har gitt danske MT Højgaard en rating på null på sikkerhet.

– Når en entreprenør har fått karakteren "null", sier forskriftene for offentlige innkjøp at de skal ekskluderes. Selv om Statens vegvesen fører inn "null" i skjemaet, anbefaler de likevel MT Højgaard – selv om de helt klinkende klart skulle vært ekskludert, sier Røen, og legger til:

– Dette er aldeles sjokker-ende. Det skal jo bygges flere bruer her i landet. Men jeg tror aldri vi kommer til å gi pris på dem. Når HSM og Cleveland og disse får vite om dette, blir det ikke en eneste utenlandsk entreprenør som gidder å gi pris på bruer her i landet. Dette er en total forakt for entreprenører og regelverk.
Først signere – så snakke

Gjennom advokatene hevder American Bridge at danskenes tilbud skulle vært avvist fordi de gjennom fire forskjellige brev til Statens vegvesen har vist at tilbudet på 761 millioner kroner inneholder feil, avvik og ufullstendigheter.

Haugesunds Avis sitter på dokumentasjon som viser at prisen i ettertid har vært forsøkt jekket opp flere ganger.

Først ble prisen øket fra 761 millioner til 832 fordi danskene hadde blingset på stålmengden. 22. desember påberoper de seg force majeure på grunn av svekket norsk krone (anbudet er gitt i norske kroner).

Brevet er undertegnet Christian Levinsen, som er seksjonsdirektør for Nord-Europa, og som i formiddag skal signere kontrakten i Hardanger.

Levinsen blir ordknapp da Haugesunds Avis tok dette opp med ham i går med spørsmål om kravene vil bli innfridd.

Han sier han ikke vil uttale seg om dette før kontrakten er signert.

Am fantastickly amazed over the architecture in Barcode for the moment and am looking very much forward to seeing this area develop further on. Look to www.pfx.no if youre interested in some new and fantastic good layouts over specially the new Dnb Nor HQ.

We have them already, in the DnB-Nor tread in the highrise section;=)

^^Actually, they have made more than the ones in the website. In Aftenposten Aften Monday, they used a render of Isfjellet/Visma from a perspective I haven't seen them before, and it was signed Placebo Effects... Guess they're holding us out!

http://www.3xn.dk/

Go to the 2007 section in "arkitektur" in their menu and you can watch 14 different pictures of one of the 3 winners of a competition for a rather substantial apartment complex with quite a uniqe design. Looks to be quite dense but using one of the new techniques for building, like the fornebu portalen buildings. Anyway, would very much like to see the to other winners if anyone has got anything on these.

http://www.link-arkitekter.no/w3pub/images/prosjekter/Arhus/View_nyland_alle1.jpg

Enjoy folks. Think we might have ourselves a winner. I really like this one.

^^Nice work by the Danes there. Since OSU neither have them posted on their website, nor use them in their model, I doubt they are final though.. Would like to see them both, but at least the last two bars has to cut some height, iirc, but one should be allowed up to ~65 m..

Why do they have to be cut down in height? (3xn rocks!)