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Architects: Lund+Slaatto Architects
- Area: 36000 m²
- Year: 2013
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Photographs:Lund+Slaatto Architects, Espen Gees, Marte Garmann
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Manufacturers: ABS Parkettgruppen Norge AS, Bolseth Glass AS, Bosvik AS, Buskerud Spesialinnredning AS, Skanska, Trysil Interiørtre AS
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Lead Architects: Pål Biørnstad
Text description provided by the architects. The award-winning buildings Schweigaardsgate 21 and 23 were designed as one architectural composition. Each of the two building volumes appears as almost perfectly cubic shapes. Within each there is a glazed atrium that provides daylight into the office floors. The office plans are mainly based on a U-shape, where the central atrium opens towards the main road on the lower floors, and then as on ascends up the space rotates incrementally toward the opposite direction and the view out over the main railway station to the south. The two buildings were given distinct characters in the facade cladding. Both buildings are clad in granite, but on S21 the stone is light grey, while on S23 it is almost black. The internal facades in the atrium are clad in oak, and the warm timber surfaces together with the characteristic daylight have created spaces that give strong experiential associations to Norwegian nature.
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