Tag Oslo, Norway

28-10-2021

Estudio Herreros’ Munch Museum opens to the public in Oslo

The wait is over: MUNCH, the new museum in Oslo designed by award-winning Spanish architectural practice Estudio Herreros, is now open to the public. The building on the waterfront, one of the world’s biggest museums dedicated to a single artist, has altered the skyline of the Norwegian capital.

09-06-2021

Munch Museum in Oslo designed by estudio Herreros opening soon

On October 22, 2021 the largest collection in the world of works by the iconic Norwegian artist Edvard Munch will be open to visitors in the new Munch Museum in Oslo. Work on the new structure designed by the estudio Herreros firm has been completed and during a live-streamed event director Stein Olav Henrichsen presented the museum to the press and announced the opening date. The new Munch Museum will house more than 26,000 works that the famous Norwegian artist bequeathed to the city of Oslo, with a strong commitment to demonstrate just how important and lasting Edvard Munch’s influence has been on society, as well as on young contemporary artists.

11-11-2020

Preserving culture in the Arctic World Archive

To keep its invaluable artworks safe for the future, the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Norway has deposited a copy of its entire collection of 400,000 objects in the Arctic World Archive’s vault. The Arctic World Archive is situated in a former coal mine in the Svalbard archipelago.

01-09-2020

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter residential complex in Oslo

The Norwegian studio Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has developed a housing complex in Oslo, bringing together tradition and innovation by using a contemporary architectural language in a historically significant context.

14-02-2020

RRA: Bygdøynesveien no. 15 homes in Oslo

The mansion that used to be the Canadian Ambassador’s home in Oslo has become the central focus of a masterplan for construction of prestigious homes on Bygdøy peninsula, designed by Reiulf Ramstad Architects and constructed on portions of land in the monumental gardens.

30-01-2019

OUTDOOR MATTERS, an exhibition about the landscape in Oslo

It is one hundred years since the landscape architect programme began at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) making Norway the first country in Europe to educate landscape architects and this centennial will be celebrated with the OUTDOOR MATTERS exhibition at the National Museum – Architecture, Oslo.

10-05-2018

Snøhetta Solobservatoriet Planetarium and Visitor Centre, Norway

Snøhetta’s Solobservatoriet Planetarium and Visitor Centre will be Norway’s biggest astronomic facility, located in the town of Lunner, surrounded by the dense vegetation of Harestua forest 45 km north of Oslo.

04-05-2018

House Viewing, exhibition at the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo

"House Viewing" is an exhibition at the National Museum in Oslo examining the current state of housing development; it expands the revamped permanent exhibition called "Housing Design" that gives visitors an overview of housing ideals and ideas over the last one hundred years.

01-11-2017

Lund Hagem Architects: Cabin Knapphullet in the Norwegian fjords

Lund Hagem Architects designed Cabin Knapphullet in Sandefjord, Norway, with a clear concept of the surrounding space: it takes the inside outdoors, blurring the distinctions between the two.