Havnelageret

Havnelageret (also Havnelager Oslo, German: " Port of Memory" ) is a former storage, today office building and headquarters of the newspaper Dagbladet, which is located in the center of the Norwegian capital Oslo on Langkaia 1. When completed in 1921, the building was the largest concrete structure in Europe and the largest structure ever in the Nordic countries.

Construction

For that time, the complicated construction constituted a great challenge. Due to its size, the foundation was laid on rocks that were only at a depth of 20 meters. The construction process consists of 130 pillars, which are supported by 1550 pillars. The Havnelageret applicable in Norway as a pioneer in the use of concrete pillars and was so solid that the fourth floor served as an air raid shelter during the Second World War.

The ten-storey building with an area of 39 708 m² is built in the Nordic Neo-Baroque style and contains elements of classicism and Art Nouveau. With crane bays, gables and towers, the façade is broken up, reducing its apparent size is reduced externally. Because of the bright pink facade, the Havnelageret is also referred to as the " pink palace " in Bjørvika (det « pink palasset » i Bjørvika ).

The costs were originally estimated at 3.2 million Norwegian kroner, amounted at the end but to 9.3 million crowns, which owed ​​wage and price increases during the First World War.

History

The by architect Bredo Berntsen (1877-1957) designed building was built in the period from 1916 to 1920 and testifies to the rapid development of the Norwegian Maritime during and after the First World War. For 60 years, held up to 1000 dockers the memory alive until the early 1980s, the function ended as a warehouse. Due to declining demand for space port operations decreased at Langkaia, shifting to other port areas.

In 1965, Berntsen was awarded the Architecture Award Betongtavlen for the Oslo Havnelager. The prize is awarded by " Norwegian Association of Architects " and the " Norwegian Concrete Association " for construction works in Norway, where concrete was " environmentally sound aesthetically and technically, in an outstanding way " is used.

After a complete refurbishment, carried out by the Oslo architects arkitektene as, the port memory took over increasingly office functions. As a " Jacob's Dream " ( Jacobs drøm ) reopened in 1983, moved into its offices neuentstanden a financial company, shipping companies and oil companies. The end of 2003 began again a comprehensive modernization after the state-owned company Entra Eiendom bought the house from the Scandinavian shopping malls operator Steen & Strøm ASA. By 2011 or 2012 is expected with the completion of the modernization measures, associated with the completion of Bjørvikatunnels, a new immersed tunnel in front of the building. Above the tunnel creates a promenade that opens the Havnelageret for inner-city bay Bjørvika and can easily be reached from the opposite Oslo Opera house from.

In May 2008, the newspaper Dagbladet moved into its new editorial offices in Havnelageret, are housed in the since both the print and online editorial Norway's second most-read newspaper.