Oslo developement thread

[NorthStar77]

Yes, I thought that heat-storage facility in the ground was really special too. I have many other large scale apartment-projects that I have not yet had time to write about, hopefully I will later today.

In the meantime, a small project that was announced today.

Storo Senter
Oslo north

Storo shoppingcentre, one of the old shoppingcentres, announced today that they will add 9000 sqm of space to their centre. 6000 will be retail and 3000 will be offices. They are doing this because their sales are stagnating because people prefer bigger centres with more to offer. Also, this centre lies near Nydalen, and they hope to get better sale because of that, and the fact that a new metrostation open right by the centre last year.

They have not been allowed to build on a bigger area, because of traffical conditions. They are practially surrounded by road, rail and tram on all sides. So I guess that only means it will have to be built upwards

No renderings to be found at the moment, but this is how the centre looks like now...rather boring.


Sale in the biggest shoppingcentres in the Oslo area the first half of this year(and 6 first months of last year):

Ski Storsenter: 750.000.000 (548.000.000 kr.)
Sandvika Storsenter: 719.000.000 (693.000.000 kr.)
Alna senter: 696.000.000 (600.000.000 kr.)
CC Vest: 630.000.000 (526.000.000 kr.)
Oslo City: 612.000.000 (580.000.000 kr.)
Storo Storsenter: 516.000.000 (497.000.000 kr.)
Steen & Strøm Stovner senter: 482.000.000 (480.000.000 kr.)
Aker Brygge: 398.000.000 (425.000.000 kr.)
Byporten Shopping: 338.000.000 (336.000.000 kr.)
Bryn Senter: 330.000.000 (333.000.000 kr.)

[NorthStar77]

Grønlandskvartalene
Grønland - Oslo inner east



An earlier rendering


Just north of the Bjøvika developements, 800 apartments is about to be built, in numerous buildings on up to 8 floors. Construction will start in Q4 this year.

A kick-ass view






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Grefsentoppen
Oslo north



85 apartments on 10 floors + 2 floors underground is planned at the border to the city forest. Construction will start by the end of this year.

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Startbo Terrasser
Carl Berner, Oslo inner east


This is a project 200 meters from me, that is currently under construction. 237 apartments will be built, aimed at young people not able to afford "normal" apartments, giving them the opurtunity to own their own place. They are all sold, so unfortunately I was not able to find more photos. (I could just walk up there and take some construction-photos myself though )


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Sukkertoppen
Carl Berner, Oslo inner east



Just next to the Startbo-project, these 42 new apartments is also about to start construction. This project was originally planned to be on 16 floors a few years ago, iirc, but you know....

[NorthStar77]

Ahus hospital
Lørenskog, eastern suburb

Just east of the city border, a new gigantic hospital is under construction. It will serve 340.000 people in eastern Oslo and eastern suburbs (Romerike). This is the biggest construction project in Norway since Gardermoen. 40.000 truckloads of earth and stone is already been transported from the site, 300 loads of dynamite has been fired, and soon 1500 construction workers will work here.

There will be an own patient hotel, a shopping-street with kiosk, hairdresser, drug store and more. The hospital is necesary to ensure the hospital services to people in an area with rapid population growth, and also because the current buildings are old and unfit. The hospital will be paperless and fully digitized. All info will only be registered once (everyone that has been involved in beurocracy know this is not always the case..). The patients will get their own screen for information, music and films. Two central vacum systems will take care of all garbage and dirty clothes. Automatic vagons will supply the hospital with all goods. The wagons can even take the elevators themselves!

Architects: C.F. Møller (danish)
Total area: 137.000 sqm
Beds: 615, most in single rooms
Cost: 7,64 billion kroner (920 million euro)
Construction start: 1. march 2004
Construction finish: 1. october 2008, but could be finished a year earlier!




The site today

[Þróndeimr]

I read soem articles about Nye Ahus a couple days ago. The project is large, but should be taller in my opinion... They had planned a 24 floor main-tower in the first, later a 12 storey main-tower, but now its gone......

[NorthStar77]

Wow, Christian I didn't know that!

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Hangar golf
Fornebu, Bærum - western suburb

Hangar 4 on the former airport Fornebu, a group of people is making the second largest indoor golf centre in the world. It will open in november, and have a floorspace of 10.000 sqmeters. Lots of other developements is also happening at the former main airport, wich I will come back to later.

Images are from Aftenposten









The driving range

[NorthStar77]

Once again it is discovered more problems on our "new" (5 years old by now) italian made trams. This time the problem is the same as with all italian made veicles in Norway; rust.

The rust-damages do not compromise with the safety of the tram, but is nevertheless unwanted. There is a clear pattern, so it is most likely a production error. The pr-man for our tram-company says he has no doubt that those who produced the trams will take responsibility.



Article in norwegian: http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=249491

[NorthStar77]

Monorail to Fornebu

In the national budget for 2005, the goverment has set aside 600 million NOK (73 million euro) to start the works on a monorail from Lysaker to Fornebu. At Fornebu wich is in the municipal of Bærum, alot of developement will take place, as I will come back to later, when I have time. Thousands of people will work and live there so it's important to have a public transport system that is fast and reliable. Already the new Telenor HQ and Accenture is located there, with ~7.000 jobs.

The construction will start in 2007, and (hopefullly) be finished in 2009. It will be fully automated, and capable of transporting 4.000 people per hour. They will have departure every 2'nd minute, have 10 stops, and the whole trip will take only 12,5 minutes. It will go in tunnel from Lysaker, under the officepark and apartment-blocks there, and from there go up to a height of 4 meters above ground for the rest of the stretch. Total estimated cost of the monorail is 970 million NOK, and the bill will be shared between the state and Oslo municipal. It is expected that 98-99% of the trains will go without delays(I won't believe that until I see it )