Saturday, February 16, 2008
A trip trap?
The Opera house itself is enlighted behind me. On the sloped roof upwards the audience is supposed to stay during a break in the opera performance or gather in a mild summer night. Even this morning I feel a temptation to mount it, but a small obstacle is still present. In a couple of months on the official opening ceremony, I expect a crowd of people to enter the slope.
This morning the water is like a mirror. A picture of the enlighted monumental building on the other side of the Bjørvika fjord harbour, called Oslo havnelager, is reflected from the sea, looking more like a castle than a business headquarter. Will this building get people's attention as much as the Opera house? And what is the name of its architect?
The answer is Bredo Berntsen, years 1916-1920, The building was a giant iron concrete construction at that time.