Contemporary Architecture  Great enthusiasm for Norway’s new Opera House at home and abroad 24/12/2008 :: Six months after the opening of the spectacular Opera House, Oslo’s new landmark has won the WAF Award for Culture for 2008. + More |
Contemporary Architecture  Oslo’s new landmark Rising from the sea in the centre of Oslo, the new, marble-clad Opera is a futuristic architectural gem. + More |
Sverre Fehn Sverre Fehn Sverre Fehn (born 1924) received his architectural education shortly after WWII and quickly became the leading Norwegian architect of his generation. He is also Norway’s most widely acclaimed architect abroad.
Fehn’s teacher, Arne ... + More |
The 1990s Norwegian Architecture in the 1990s In the 1990s Norwegian architects returned to modernism’s roots. Private homes and office buildings alike were given large, smooth facades and clear geometrical volumes reminiscent of the functionalism of the 1930s. The most widely ... + More |
The Alexandria Library The Library of Alexandria
The ancient library of Alexandria contained the greatest collection of writings in antiquity. When it was destroyed in the 5th century A.D., a vast trove of ancient wisdom was lost forever.
In 1989 the Egyptian state announced an ... + More |
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