It has been reviled, ridiculed and voted Norway’s second ugliest. But on the inside of Nydalen vertical, they are satisfied.
Published: 26/04/2024 07:19
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- Vertikal Nydalen in Oslo has received a lot of criticism. The building has two towers of 18 and eight floors.
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– I have a feeling that now that it is written here, people have taken a much more positive view. Not least that Nydalen has been given a sunny, new place.
Anne Cecilie Haug, project manager at the architectural firm Snøhetta, stands in the vestibule of Nydalen vertikal. Two wooden towers of 18 and eight floors adorned with 43 asymmetrical steel balconies, filled with various ground-breaking environmental measures. And referred to with just as many swear words. “An instrument of torture from the Middle Ages”, is one. When the Arkitekturupprøret named the year’s ugliest, they were only beaten by the Moxy hotel in Tromsø.
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