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Oslo's Opera house is part of the city's revitalization strategy to redevelop the city's historically industrial waterfront into an active public space. Oslo's harborfront, before the Opera was constructed.
The Oslo opera house is one of the many keyless structures Snøhetta has designed – the building’s lobby is public spaces, free and open to the public 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Galleries that run alongside the main hall open towards both the main hall and the facades allowing for views back to the city and fjords.
Photographer Nick Kane Hélène Binet Henning Klokkerasen Jiri Havran Christian Richters Nina Reistad. In 1999, the National Assembly of Norway decided that the new Opera House was to be constructed on the Bjørvika peninsula, on the shores of Oslo’s fjord. The new construction was a first step in the development plan for this formerly ...
Apr 9, 2008 · Rose Etherington | 9 April 2008 22 comments. Here are some more photographs, plans and renderings of the new Oslo Opera House by Norwegian architects Snøhetta. See our previous story for more...
The Snøhetta architects used three main materials in designing Oslo Opera House: stone, wood and metal. The principal stone used in the construction is the characteristic white marble from Carrara in Italy. The wood used in the foyer, public galleries and the Main House is oak, while the metal facades on the roof are aluminium.
The marble clad roofs cape forms a large public space in the landscape of the city and the fjord. The public face of the opera house faces west and north – while at the same time, the building’s profile is clear from a great distance from the fjord to the south.
Jul 1, 2016 · The Oslo Opera House (Operahuset i Oslo) is a beautifully crafted cultural building whose sharp, white surface draws your imagination to an iceberg silently drifting in the ocean, with the...
