Sankt Olavs Plass Analysis_Urban Preservation_Spring2020

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HOLTER CHAIR1800« Hi ! Niels Holter, architect...185018701900I designed the Teledirecktoratet building standing in front of you. AlthoughI am quite pleased with what I achieved here, the modernist urbanapproach has been criticized for several decades. Some say that theproject neglects the urban coherence and the human scale of the square.What do you think?Some people regret the loss of the older buildings that stood here. Thesewere two Neo-Baroque buildings of forming 3 and 3 and ½ floor rentalblocks from the 1870s. The ground-floors of these hosted several shopsover the years including a Buntmaker (leather shop) and a Tobacconist.St OlavsPlass’ star shape connects several important elements of Oslo,taking in several remarkable buildings such as the royal palace. The stardesign determined the overall layout for this part of the city. For example, Ibet you have noticed the skyline of the City Hall in the background. Thisbuilding with its own round public space, from 1950, seems the perfectcounterpart of St. Olavs Plass across the Universitetsgata axis.The Teledirecktoratet building is now almost 60 years old. It was built in1964 and hosted the offices of the National Telecommunications Authorities.As you can see, the construction consists of two main parts:a high-rise offering light and views over the city and a lower volumetowards Pilestredet providing the human-scale with a street façade andshops. The building’s envelope is a glass façade which provides a senseof openness. I had the privilege of designing other buildings in Osloincluding the Broadcasting house at Marienlyst built between 1938 and1945 and later, in 1963, the Televerket’s installation building at Tollbugataamongst others.1950195019641971The lower part of the building in front of you hosting the Post Office isa later extension added in 1971. This building and its neighbour (DomusNova) both break the alignment of the original buildings around StOlavs Plass. They leave more space to the streets which was intended toprovide fluid car traffic. They representa Modernist urbanism in contrast withthe earlier dense urban form of theNeo-Baroque .20002020
HOLTER CHAIR1800« Hi ! Niels Holter, architect...185018701900I designed the Teledirecktoratet building standing in front of you. AlthoughI am quite pleased with what I achieved here, the modernist urbanapproach has been criticized for several decades. Some say that theproject neglects the urban coherence and the human scale of the square.What do you think?Some people regret the loss of the older buildings that stood here. Thesewere two Neo-Baroque buildings of forming 3 and 3 and ½ floor rentalblocks from the 1870s. The ground-floors of these hosted several shopsover the years including a Buntmaker (leather shop) and a Tobacconist.St OlavsPlass’ star shape connects several important elements of Oslo,taking in several remarkable buildings such as the royal palace. The stardesign determined the overall layout for this part of the city. For example, Ibet you have noticed the skyline of the City Hall in the background. Thisbuilding with its own round public space, from 1950, seems the perfectcounterpart of St. Olavs Plass across the Universitetsgata axis.The Teledirecktoratet building is now almost 60 years old. It was built in1964 and hosted the offices of the National Telecommunications Authorities.As you can see, the construction consists of two main parts:a high-rise offering light and views over the city and a lower volumetowards Pilestredet providing the human-scale with a street façade andshops. The building’s envelope is a glass façade which provides a senseof openness. I had the privilege of designing other buildings in Osloincluding the Broadcasting house at Marienlyst built between 1938 and1945 and later, in 1963, the Televerket’s installation building at Tollbugataamongst others.1950198820201950196419712000The lower part of the building in front of you hosting the Post Office isa later extension added in 1971. This building and its neighbour (DomusNova) both break the alignment of the original buildings around StOlavs Plass. They leave more space to the streets which was intended toprovide fluid car traffic. They representa Modernist urbanism in contrast withthe earlier dense urban form of theNeo-Baroque .Funny story now! On November 2nd,1988 the American student Robert Morrisunleashed the world’s first global «computervirus». The virus spread rapidly frommachine to machine in the United Statesand put out the internet of about15,000 computers. Fortunately,the virus did not reach Norwaythanks to Pål Spilling from theTelecommunicationAdministration building whosimply pulled out the internetcable. At that time, it took onlyone cable to connect Norwayto the American internetnetwork! Amazing right?
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