Oslo Redeveloping Harbor
Oslo is remaking large sections of its waterfront. To the west of City Hall, SpaceGroup is designing the redevelopment of Filipstad: a 74-acre shipping port. On the east end of the waterfront, the city is burying the E18 highway and freeing the land for redevelopment. The star of this scheme, Snøhetta’s New National Opera House, will open in April 2008.
Oslo Redeveloping Harbor
Filipstad will contain a mixture of residences, offices, and parks.
Image: Courtesy SpaceGroup
Oslo Redeveloping Harbor
A street view of the redeveloped Filipstad district.
Image: Courtesy SpaceGroup
Oslo Redeveloping Harbor
The marble-clad roof of Snøhetta’s New National Opera House rises directly from the waters of Oslofjord at an incline of roughly 6.34 degrees. People may walk on the roof year-round. A preview in September 2007 drew 15,000 visitors.
Photo: © James Murdock
Oslo Redeveloping Harbor
The government held a competition for a sculpture that will be located in the harbor directly in front of the Opera House. On October 11 it selected a work by Monica Bonvicini from a field of 153 entries. She designed an iceberg-like steel structure that will be partially covered in reflective materials; titled “Hun Ligger” (She Lies), it is patterned after David Friedrich’s 1824 painting “Das Eismeer” (The Ice Sea).
Photo: © James Murdock
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