Proposed
Oslo Tower
Bjerke - Oslo

Oxer group is behind a proposed office park, Oslo Tower. The tower itself will house small appartments for commuters, meetingrooms, a restaurant and spa (in the base). And ofcourse a rooftop terasse. (Not public) and it will have solarpanels inside the glass-facades and a artistic night-light.

The complex will have underground parking and a square in attempt of creating a local centre.

http://www.oxer.no/images/stories/egne_bilder/prosjektrv2/Torget_oslotower.gif

http://www.oxer.no/images/stories/omrde.png

Info in Norwegian, a video and a twisting animation of the project.
http://www.oxer.no/index.php/Prosjekt.html

Existing tower is a cable stretching tower in a closed Alcatel factory, they will add 2 floors height to the existing tower:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/DSC_0935-1.jpg
Thin white tower in the middle of the picture

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/Oslo/DSC_0270.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3189/2699061221_4b5588d080_b.jpg

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=alcateltarnet-oslo-norway


There has been speculations on Statoilhydro new hq to be located here. This is in Groruddalen, a valley with lots of industry, motorways and shopping-centres. Projects like this is very welcome by politicians since they want to give this valley new life.

Whole project is 60 000 squaremeters. Planned completion in 2012.

Neighbouring projects are a new Choice new hotel (Completed), and Østre Aker vei 31 office park(U/C) and Økern centre(Proposed).

These images are from Oxers prospect, you can get one if you just fill in your e-mail:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/Oslo/Oslotower1.jpg
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/Oslo/Oslotower2.jpg
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/Oslo/Oslotower3.jpg
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/Oslo/Oslotower4.jpg

The approval process can be followed here:
http://web102881.pbe.oslo.kommune.no/saksinnsyn/casedet.asp?mode=all&caseno=200713821

This was nice! And shouldn't be to hard to get it approved either as the tower's already there.

Cool, reminds me a lot of Logo Tower! :cheers:

Personally my hope was that Godzilla or something would eat the Alcatel tower since I think it is hideous. But this looks like the second best option.
(Although some further work on the estetics would be to my liking)

The existing Alcateltarnet Tower has 12 floors and rises 62 metres. If you were to add two floors to the existing tower, it would be 70 metres 13 floors (not 18 though).

Certainly it will have to be completely rebuilt, leaving only the shell of the old structure... =)

Quite right Ingenioren. Although I think it has 11 floors. But those are not usable for the planned use and the entire tower has to be refurbished.

Think it looks good! Nice with the old facade to the road.

This is what the tower currently looks like:
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n125/kjetilbalog/SCC/Kabeltrn01.jpg
(Picture taken from the bar at the new Quality Hotel 33)

The tower:

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/DSC_1618.jpg

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/DSC_1620.jpg

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/DSC_1621.jpg

The nabour U/C, i guess they will have to fill these before selling the towerproject.

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/DSC_1631.jpg

Risløkka skyline:

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/DSC_1646.jpg

http://www.bygg.no/cache/image/8816/53/oslotower-bredde.jpg

Bygg.no reports:
The developpers have high ambitions as to use new technology in order to reduce the energy-use for this complex. 125kwh/m2year is the goal for the whole project, while with the office-lammels they have a vision of reaching down to 100kwh/m2year. Reason why they won't reach such a level for the entire project is that a big part of it will be using old building mass.
http://www.bygg.no/id/41187

Another angle of where it stands skyline-wise..

http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv353/Ingenioren2/DSC_1589.jpg

http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv353/Ingenioren2/CSC_1595.jpg

I wish they would focus construction along the highrise cluster so Oslo could form a dense business center.

I wish that to, but then again it's hard to build highrises downtown, they should build more of them in this area giving us a new cluster at the meeting point of Oslo-gryta and Groruddalen it would be visible for many inhabitants and mark this area as an important development zone and Groruddalens centre. Keep in mind, there are more highrises planned nearby this one:

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/Osloindrestkart.jpg

Haslelinje with unknown round highrise and Økern behind:

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/ssc-tegninger/Halselinje1.jpg

Økern sentrum:

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/okern.jpg

New render of Oslo Tower:

http://lgimg.no.publicus.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Avis=LG&Dato=20090327&Kategori=NYHETER&Lopenr=836666509&Ref=AR&MaxW=768&title=1&NoBorder

And again Oxer is in the media advertising the project
http://www.lokalavisen.no/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090327/NYHETER/836666509#

More Haslelinje illustrations:
http://web102881.pbe.oslo.kommune.no/saksinnsyn/showfile.asp?fileid=2108715

Looks far better in the new rendering, though i sure hope the design will improve X10!

^ Atleast Riksantikvaren doesn't have a problem with Oxer altering the appearance of the tower with glass instead of concrete, they only demand the tower to be there :)

Interview with the developper, appearantly there is no problem filling the space at Økern Næringspark:

http://www.estatemedia.no/ArticleDetails/tabid/83/Skin/2/SecID/4/ArtID/2039/Default.aspx

Riksantikvaren PRO tower?!? There must be some mistake somewhere.... :nuts:

^ Unbelievable, i know - seems as all industry is automaticly worth preserving - i wouldn't have guessed it, but i'm glad ;D

The facades to the left here is also protected (I guess not Bilia) aswell as the chimney - Riksantikvaren is very pro-chimney:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/DSC_1615.jpg

Aswell as this facade:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/Ingenioren/DSC_1613.jpg

Some relevant news to this project; http://www.estatemedia.no/ArticleDetails/tabid/83/Skin/2/SecID/8/ArtID/2039/Default.aspx

So what happends now, cancelled... :nuts: After 3 years of planning developper thinks the approved plan would offer too little profit and decides to withdraw their application.
http://web102881.pbe.oslo.kommune.no/saksinnsyn/showfile.asp?fileid=2991685

Shame! To bad, I liked this proposal... Whats next? Demolition?

Developer now suggests a slight modification to the streets in Pbe alternative:

http://web102881.pbe.oslo.kommune.no/saksinnsyn/showfile.asp?fileid=3292748