Only Oslo, Norway

[dexter26]

Great pics from Kingofthehill's thread The Way to The North: one month in Norway.

Originally Posted by Kingofthehill

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19 - Similar to Barcode, Tjuvholmen is another massive, multi-billion dollar redevelpment of underutilized industrial spaces on Oslo's waterfront.
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56 - Oslo's Metro is spotless. Literally, not a drop of grime anywhere to be found. And there is high ridership and frequent headways. I know it isn't that easy, but, American cities: take note.
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93 I found the HSR to the airport to be a nice touch
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I recommend taking a look at the entire thread with photos from Oslo, Bergen and the west coast of Norway, it was nice!

[Registered_User]

Originally Posted by dexter26

Great pics from Kingofthehill's thread The Way to The North: one month in Norway.



I recommend taking a look at the entire thread with photos from Oslo, Bergen and the west coast of Norway, it was nice!

Awesome pictures!

[dexter26]

I do agree

I am going to post some photos from this thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie in the polish forums now.


Around (and one inside) the Central Station














Source: thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie

[dexter26]

Photos from this thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie in the polish forums.


From the square outside Central Station, we start walking up Karl Johans gate.





















Source: thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie

[Wunderknabe]

A flawless beauty of a city. I was there as a kid, and although I don't remember much detail, I always thought it looks perfectly beautiful. Glad to see that memory verified


Norwegerinnen look sweet too

[SoroushPersepolisi]

possibly the most "perfect" city in terms of unification and one-pieced-ness

flawless ! very nice

[dexter26]

Thanks for the praise, bros

Photos from this thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie in the polish forums.

The walk continues up Karl Johans gate...















There is some modernism present also






Source: thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie

[dexter26]

Photos from this thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie in the polish forums.



















And we arrive at the last stretch towards Royal palace in Oslo, with a Finnish touch this time


Source: thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie

[dexter26]

Photos from this thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie in the polish forums.

The modest parliament building, Stortinget, was opened in 1866, and is built in neo-romantic style. This is the north side wall facing Karl Johans gate, the front is around the corner you see to the right of the photo



What in reality is the back of this building, has a modernist extension as well, which admittedly is nothing special although it also doesn't ruin the appearance of the building much. Here you only see the small wall on one side of the extension



It's among the nicest buildings along Karl Johans gate






The Tanum bookstore, part of the Paleet shopping complex



This building is now well-known in the city for housing Oslo's Hard Rock Cafe


Source: thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie

[aljuarez]

Wonderful, Dexter!
Much more colourful than I imagined

[Galro]

Originally Posted by aljuarez

Wonderful, Dexter!
Much more colourful than I imagined

The streetscape is actually rather colorful with exception of those places that have gone through re-development schemes during the 20th century.

Check out these links:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Oslo,...,50.99,,0,1.11

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Oslo,...0.28,,0,-12.12

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Oslo,...22.45,,0,-6.86

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Oslo,...23.21,,0,-6.44

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Oslo,...47.39,,0,-1.11

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Oslo,...9.58,,0,-10.67

Etc.

[manba]

Amazing pics from Oslo.

[Galro]

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/borgvin...n/photostream/

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Top_dog_of_the_street by Voss-Nilsen, on Flickr

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Akersveien by Voss-Nilsen, on Flickr

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Bygdøy Allè by Anne-Sophie Ofrim, on Flickr

[inno4321]

good

[dexter26]

Thanks for comments and nice pics Galro

Photos from this thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie in the polish forums.

The walk along Karl Johans gate continues...



The National theater






The National theater has a metro and train station named after it, and is a central hub in the city besides the Central Station - this is the square between the station and the theatre itself






The Royal palace - indeed a very modest, simple palace, but I must say I sort of like the "cleanness" of it, somehow. In fact, this sort of signifies a lot of the older buildings in Oslo - they are "cleaner," simpler versions of the more extravagantly ornamented ones elsewhere in Europe.





Source: thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie

[Galro]

Originally Posted by dexter26

Photos from this thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie in the polish forums.

The modest parliament building, Stortinget, was opened in 1866, and is built in neo-romantic style. This is the north side wall facing Karl Johans gate, the front is around the corner you see to the right of the photo

I have never cared for our parliament building. It's a shame they didn't build the original winning design that was intended for the building. It would have been so much better imho.


http://www.novarchitectura.com/2012/...oggi-10-marzo/



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sc...parliament.jpg

[dexter26]

I'm not unequivocally a fan of the parliament building we have, myself, but we will have to disagree that that would have been a better option, the only thing better is the height imho... Besides that, it looks too much like church architecture in my eyes.

[dexter26]

We continue the photoseries from a thread in the Polish forums, photos are by the user lulek89 by the way.

Photos from this thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie in the polish forums.

Looking back at Karl Johans gate from the Royal palace



King Karl Johan III (Carl Johan/Charles John XIV in Swedish/English) statue









From inside the Nationaltheatret metro station, which is just a short walk from the palace





Source: thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie

[dexter26]

Photos from this thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie in the polish forums.

The photographer is travelling with the Oslo metro from Nationaltheatret station up towards Holmenkollen, where the well-known skiing and ski jump arena is. The metro quickly leaves the central tunnel and starts climbing up the partially steep hill.



The view from the carriage towards the city starts getting nice after a while of climbing the Holmenkollen hill



This is the Holmenkollen metro station



It's the ski museum at Holmenkollen (admittedly not a impressive building from the outside), you can barely see the top of the Holmenkollen ski jump itself behind it



Just a few steps up this path...



... And you end up at a view of this big attraction in Oslo, which needs no further introduction if you know anything about Oslo


Btw, there's two people sitting there somewhere in the arena, can you find them? They will give you a sense of the scale. Wanna try a jump?

Source: thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie

[dexter26]

Photos from this thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie in the polish forums.

Holmenkollen continues... There's actually a small creek running through the stadium






A troll



Looking more around the entire area... It's the reception/arrival area during winter competitions/cross country disciplines











Source: thread: [Europa] W moim obiektywie