Apr 08
The Olympic Games are often a bittersweet milestone for a city, filled with economic and political ups and downs
Apr 01
Ever been to Bjørndalen? No, of course you haven’t: This tiny town, located in a remote area of Svalbard, the Arctic archipelago controlled by Norway, has more polar bears than humans. Curiously, it’s also home to some of the country’s fastest internet speeds.
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Mar 20
This serpent-like hotel, coiled around the glacial outcroppings of Norway’s gorgeous Lofoten Islands
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This serpent-like hotel, coiled around the glacial outcroppings of Norway’s gorgeous Lofoten Islands north of the Arctic Circle, has been proposed by the architecture firm Snøhetta. The building’s central loop will enclose a courtyard, offering a "spectacular view and the feeling of being ‘in the middle’ of the elements," according to the architects. [Dezeen]
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Mar 05
It’s been almost three years since a gunman detonated a bomb in Oslo and then stormed a small summer camp off the coast of Norway, killing 77 people and cementing a record as the worst mass shooting in modern memory. This month, the country revealed plans for a memorial to the tragedy—and it’s beautiful.
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Feb 24
Somewhere hiding on a hillside northwest of Oslo, there’s a magical little lodge. Well, at 1,400 square feet, this house designed by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter is actually a pretty decent-sized lodge. And, boy, is it pretty.
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Jan 29
Machines that can accurately and efficiently filet a fish have been used for years now to speed up processing plants—though only with farmed fish that are all the same size and weight. Fish caught in the wild usually have to be processed by hand given they vary in size, but a new machine that employs x-ray vision and precise water jets can finally automate the filleting process.
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Jan 18
It’s gotten ridiculously frigid here in Chicago, what with the recent Polar Vortex and colder than normal winter. But I’ve never seen anything like this scene, recently captured in Norway:
Image: Ingolf Kristiansen
Apparently, when harsh winds caused temperatures over a Norwegian bay to drop to sub-freezing temperatures, the fish swimming close to the surface were flash frozen. While the air temperature of -7.8°C (~18°F) seems balmy by Chicago standards, it was enough to put the instant deep-freeze on the fish.
According to locals, the water and fish remain frozen, and the birds and whales will have a field day when the thaw eventually comes.
[via The Independent]
Nov 19
A visitor walks towards Norway’s dramatic Trollstigen (Troll’s Ladder) overlook, designed by Reiulf
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A visitor walks towards Norway’s dramatic Trollstigen (Troll’s Ladder) overlook, designed by Reiulf Ramstad Architects in 2012. The moment was captured by German photographer Ken Schluchtmann, who took home this year’s Arcaid Architectural Photography Award today. [Ken Schluchtmann]
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Nov 06
The work of photographer Thomas Senf is the focus of a short video hosted by The Guardian, documenting the stunning lengths he’s gone through to shoot climbers scaling frozen waterfalls at night in the mountains of Norway. The landscape is a like a chandelier lit from within—a reef of glowing ice.
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Oct 18
Norway finds itself in a tough conundrum after a terrorist attack crippled a pair of Brutalist buildings in downtown Oslo. Tearing down the buildings is one thing—they’re crumbling, controversial and, well, brutal. Destroying the Picasso murals carved into the concrete, however, is an entirely different matter.
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