Library Buildings around the World

Politihøgskolen i Oslo – Norway 1995 - 1996
Police Academy in Oslo, Client: Public Construction, Use: Police Academy in Oslo, Year built: 1995-1996, Area: 8200 m2
The new building represents the three phases of the Police Academy and consists of a five-storey wing along Gydas way, and a single
storey wing to Trudvang Road. The new building is linked to existing school facilities with a footbridge in the 3rd storey level. The
buildings are tightening up the existing block structure in the area and amplifier characteristics. The new building contains the
student functions in the three lower floors with a large library and reading rooms, auditorium with 200 seats, spacious classrooms,
seminar rooms and group rooms. In the two upper floors are offices and meeting rooms for teachers and trainers. (Lille)
LPO Arkitekter as, Oslo – Norway
http://www.lpo.no
Libraries:
Hermetikken Kulturfabrikk, Sortland – Norway in design
Employer: Hermetikken AS
LPO is in the process of planning and design of a new cultural center in the "Blue City" Sortland. Here will be built a new library
and concert hall. It is supplied pre-project. (LPO)
Kulturfabrikken being built!
Municipal Council in Sortland decided in June 2011 that Kulturfabrikken be built subject to realization of new hotel. Blåbyen Invest
AS announced during Christmas that the hotel is being built, and thus are ready for a new arts event in downtown Sortland and
Vesterålen. Demolition work will start in a few weeks, and in March 2014 the building can be used.
There have been thorough preparations before the decision to build was made. The basis for the content of Kulturfabrikken that
were added in the program document and visualized through sketches (see details below), has given assurance that this will be a
future cultural center with a multitude of opportunities for all groups. In addition, we are creating a new and different venue in the
center of Sortland. Concurrent with the municipal council for the construction of Kulturfabrikken gave Nordland County Council a
commitment of 20.0 million in funding for this project (absent play and county funds). From before the county council supported the
project with 2.0 million is later given tilsang from the county with care plan for Culture Factory and the new hotel with kr. 2.75
million music scene expressed great joy when the Music arrangement just before Christmas gave support to 5 of rehearsal rooms
built with £. 1.25 million new arts Sortland Sortland presidency decided in the meeting 28.09.07, implementation of the project New
arts in Sortland. The decision was taken in conjunction with Urban Development Programme and the municipal sector plan for
Sortland strategic part 2007-2019. following mandate was given for arts project: "The development of a project library, cultural
hall, cinema, gallery and cultural workshops with activity facilities for arts, young and old can co-located. One such collection is
necessary for the creation of the key meeting place, but also to achieve operational efficiency. "
(http://www.kulturfabrikkensortland.no)
Dance House Vulkan – Oslo 2008
The total gross area is about 3500m2.
Employer: Vulcan Real Estate Ltd
Employer's Vulcan Real Estate Ltd, owned by Aspelin-Ramm Property and Anthon B. Nilsen Property.
Interior design is a collaboration between Snøhetta and LPO.
Dance House has become within the shell of an old machine shop located along the Aker River at Vulcan at Grünerløkka in Oslo.
Dance House should be a national stage for performances of Norwegian and international contemporary dance performances and
expertise place for dance. The project includes a main stage with room for 350 people, BISC, a foyer with café, operations,
administration of Dance House and Dance Information, the Norwegian Information Office of dance with dance library and a video
library. (LPO)
Diakon, Library and Learning Center, Oslo – Norway 2008
Employer: Diakonhjemmets property department
The building contains offices for Diakonhjemmets hospitals and Diakonhjemmets college. The central location in Diakonhjemmets
parkland, between the hospital and the college's main buildings provide an ideal base for the development of this common feature.
Auditorium, library and group and lecture rooms will have a major impact on both institutions. In addition, the new building a
Learning and Mastering Center (LMS) for patients and their families. The building was officially opened by Bishop Kvarme August
26th, 2011. (LPO)
Papirbredden | School and Library, Drammen – Norway 2007
Employer: Entra in cooperation with Drammen Property KF
Transforming Union Paper Mill at Drammenselva for educational and cultural purposes. Besides facilities for College of Buskerud,
Telemark College and BI, contains plant library Drammen, Norway's first co-location of a library attached to both schools, the
county and municipality. Most functions are brought together in a new building on the river. The building is designed with regular
floors which encloses a high atrium. Against this atrium are lecture and other special functions together in a cylindrical main form
with reference to the old industrial silos in the square outside. In addition to these silos is the original "beater" restored as part of the
new library. The entire facility is "The Blue Room" which both binds together and manages a continuity from the city, through the
new building and out to the river. The project is developed with great rationality and implemented in a very short time after a socalled
interaction model between the client, the planners and contractors. Artistic decoration of the cylindrical body shape is
performed by Jon Arne Mogstad. concept for the facility and the preparation of "The Blue Room" was developed in collaboration
with architect Kristine Jensen Tegnestue in Aarhus. (LPO)
In order to exploit to the full the library resources of Drammen and create a high-class, future-oriented library, three library
organizations were brought together under one roof. Together they form the Combined Library/Drammensbiblioteket, which in
turn is part of the Papirbredden Knowledge Centre, an integrated campus. The new library building was completed in the beginning
of December 2006 and the library opened officially on 2 March 2007. Drammensbiblioteket is a coalition of three separate library
organisations working together. The three partners are the county library, the municipal library and the university college library.
To the visitor Drammensbiblioteket is one unit. The Combined Library serves as a link between the municipality and the university
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