The implementation is much more sophisticated than the rest of the contestants. A blurred piece, in height, perpendicular to the bay is a great success.

And programmatically is visionary. A museum developed in vertical is a more contemporary concept and therefore more appropriate.

The system of public spaces generated, in close relation with the building of the Opera, is a gift to the city of Oslo.

Anyway, I do not know which campaign is out there to discredit this project. We should be thinking about the citizens of Oslo and not in professional rivalries and commercial ambitions.

PS. Rex´s project blocks the view of the Opera and does not contribute to the visible image from the fiord that the city needs.

I honestly cannot “read” or understand it. Must be some kind of architects strange thinking that makes this project “good” in any way….. Sorry.

I don’t understand why you keep comparing it to the Rex proposal, and suggesting that any of the commentators work there – Rex has been mentioned once (by ‘Oslo’). I totally agree in most of your critique against Yin Yang, such as ‘the Rex mutation of the Neue National Gallerie and the Met in NYC is a little too nostaligic post-mo for my taste’, and ‘i do like some aspects of Rex’s playful programmatic ideas in relationship to challenging the autonomy of art, but in the end it completely fell short in the fiscal, mechanical and environmental realities of what the jury and the city are looking for, really, i mean look at their sections…’. Yes, yes and oh yes.

Thank you, Kaffilaura.

I am not working at a threatened little, local office. I’m a student. Second year, if you care.
I think you’ve just established who’s the 5 year old… Good luck to you too (I hope nobody ever questions your empty nonsense again).

“Skyscraper is not a genre. It is a vessel.” My God… I must applaud you, NM, you have an impressive way of using many words to say absolutely nothing.

That being said, the museum as a machine is an intriguing and fascinating concept. But the link between the skyscraper, the machine and the truthfulness is simply non-existing. Throwing lots of empty words inbetween them does not help.

I do believe that you are correct in the fact that “the point is not originality of form”, considering the fact that the shape is almost identical to their apartment block “Woerman” at Gran Canaria. They just added some wavey glass they saw on their study trip to Porto. Only problem is that they put it on the wrong way, so that it will collect dirt and sea salt nicely.

The fact that it counterbalances its surroundings in shape and intransparancy is bullshit. It is a continuation of the BARCODE plan north of the plot, which consists of more of these glass towers that require enormous amounts of energy to keep warm in winter and cool in summer. However, Herreros mangaged to place the other buildings of their project PERPENDICULAR to the BARCODE line and their own museum, creating a wall between the city and the sea (they seem very consistent in demonstrating that they haven’t understood the context at all).

Yes, it does free a lot of area. I think that’s the reason they won. Now the owners of the plot (HAV eiendom) have lots of square meters to sell out for further development. Yey.

Fia: You have no right assuming that people are dishonest merely because they don’t like this building.

Jesus, this building brings out the worst in me! I shall have to finish with something positive, and want to praise Ghilardi+Hellsten for their MSK project. Nice work! I also think the winner of the Deichmann Library will turn out very nice.