While the world’s capitals are racing to create the most beautiful cultural buildings, the state capital is stuck in a renovation backlog and austerity constraints. What ideas Bavaria’s Minister of Art Markus Blume brings back from an excursion to Oslo with the “Initiative Cultural Future”.
It feels like you are climbing a high plateau in the mountains. Or more precisely, a glacier that pushes powerfully into the Oslo fjord at this point. That’s how the architects of the office did it Snohetta presented for their opera, and so they succeeded. Even if this meant that a city highway had to be laid underground and the fjord, where the old port facilities were located for decades, had to be completely detoxified.