From Stone Desert to Glass Desert
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| The new proposal for bringing "life" back to the area around Oslo Central Station |
No doubth, my politicians and our architects are still stuck in a heroic city-destroying mode, destroying my beloved nation's capital city.
Jeg vil sitere en ypperlig leserkommentar til dette prosjektet:
Steinørken blir glassørken...Hva er det som er så utrolig stas med høyhus, er det et New York-kompleks? Høyhus er så gammaldags. Nå har vi nettopp fått opp barcode, i revidert utgave. Så skal det bli kamp om hvor høyt dette skal bli...Høyhus stjeler enormt med lys og er det noe vi ikke har overskudd av i Norge, så er det lys. Vi kan ikke fornye byen for å danke ut andre byer. Oslo skal fornyes for de som bor der og jobber der. Hver dag, hele året. Ikke for de som kommer innom. - PelikanThe article in Aftenposten about this life destroying project, one out of a long list of new city destroying projects to be forced upon central Oslo and its sea side, is to be found here.
Where is The Salingaros Group? Please save my capital!
Updates:
- Dette blir fjordbyen Oslo. Includes a new very useful interactive map of all ongoing and planned projects for downtown Oslo.
- Norge trenger mer nysgjerrighet. Article in Aftenposten about the architecth behind the Barcode Wall, Winy Maas, who proclaims that Norway needs more "bold" and "curious" architecture.
- Quarrel about new bus terminal may delay the projects surrounding the central station
- Oslo S (central station) a building place for ten years. The article lists the plans of Rom Eiendom (real estate company) for their transformation of the Oslo S area.
- The modernists are about to destroy Bergen as well. See also.
- Nytt Munch-museum kan ryke
- Enighet i byrådet om Lambda
- Den nye avenyen er egentlig en bro
- Er dette Oslo om 100 år?
- Slik blir «nye» Aker Brygge
- En plass i solen
- Byggearbeider vil være hemmende
- "Diamant" skal konkurrere med Tjuvholmen
- Vil ha 33 etasjer på Filipstad
- Høyhusene står i kø i Oslo
- Oslo-promenaden - en smak av Cannes?
- Tullinløkka skal bli park til høsten
- Bjørvika - Oslos Oxford Street?
- Kvadraturen kan bli Oslos Disneyland
- Kloakkhall kan bli konsertsal
- Tjuvholmens høyeste tårn
- Strid om ny bussterminal
- City-destroying, soul-destroying, and culture-destroying architectural and urban typologies arrives Bjørvika, Oslo
- Vestbanespøken
- Buildings of Operakvarteret. Nb! Operakvarteret is what was earlier called the Barcode and is part of the Bjørvika project. The Central Station (Oslo S) area is just beside Operakvarteret and is meant to have the same glossy starchitecture. The glass and steel monstrous dystopian nihilistic starchiscrapers for DnB NOR the bank are already finished! This wall of starchiscrapers squeezed between Oslo S and Bjørvika I think is still named the Barcode wall, at least among ordinary people.
- Bjørvika – city within a city
- New bridge to unite old and new
- DnB NOR HEADQUARTERS By a-lab
- Skyscraper News for Oslo
- Bjørvika Reshapes Oslo Skyline
- Bilding as Landscape
- Cognitive Dissonance and Non-adaptive Architecture: Seven Tactics for Denying the Truth
- Life and the Geometry of the Environment
- Modernism & Disconnection from Life
