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The murals, created by Picasso and the Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar, were removed from the Norwegian government building in Oslo last summer Photo: © Adrian Bugge
The saga of the celebrated Picasso murals, which were removed from a landmark site in Oslo last year, is heading to court. The murals, created in collaboration with the Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar, were stripped by the Norwegian government from the Y Block administrative building in the Norwegian capital last summer.
Both works were sandblasted on to the walls by Nesjar;
The
Fishermen was installed on the brutalist façade while
The Seagull was located in the lobby of the building, which was designed by the Norwegian architect Erling Viksjø in 1969. The Y Block building, lsituated in the capital’s Regjeringskvartalet area, has since been demolished under government plans after a car bomb rocked the district in a terrorist attack in 2011.
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Norway, by some estimates, is two-thirds mountainous, and about half of its population lives in the south of the country, where its capital, Oslo, is located. These eight contemporary buildings will give you another lens through which to see this Scandinavian country.
Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die
, edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses.
Norwegian Glacier Museum
Sverre Fehn, the winner of the 1997 Pritzker Prize, is particularly known and celebrated for his exceptional and inventive use of concrete and wood. When approaching his Norwegian Glacier Museum in Balestrand, visitors are greeted by Fehn’s remarkable vision and a memorable exercise in the flexibility of concrete. The museum, which was completed in 1991, is situated in a valley below the Jostedal Glacier and is deliberately evocative of its icy neighbor. Inside, visitor
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