Architecture  Norwegian company to build WTC Museum The Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta is going to build the new museum on Ground Zero in New York. Snøhetta beat 60 other offices for the important and prestigious job of creating a memorial museum at the highly symbolic site. + More |
Contemporary Architecture  Oslo’s new signature 07/09/2007 :: What are the Danes doing in Norway’s infamous ski jump? Oslo’s jewel will be revitalized by a Denmark-based architectural firm and a Belgian-French architect. + 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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