Sankt Olavs Plass Analysis_Urban Preservation_Spring2020
Publication from AHO's Urban Preservation Course Spring 2020. It presents a study of the changing narrative of St Olav's Place in the Centre of Oslo, undertaken by an international consultancy team of students comprising - Eudine Blancardi, Félix Blanchard, Kostas Argyriou, Kristofer Mattsson and Julian Riise. The project started as a normal study with community engagement and installations on site and then owing to Corona Virus, the team had to rethink the project and complete the study as a virtual project. The team were assisted by course leader Tom Davies, Viksjø expert- Even Smith Wergeland, community artists- Kim Frydenlund Grane & Torgeir Stige, Byantikvaren's Marte Muan Sæther, Post-war construction expert- Barbara Ascher, Norberg Schulz expert- Beata Labuhn, and Oxford Archaeology's Ben Ford. There are plans to realise the different 'chairs' in the report as experiences at SOP, which you can do right now by taking the publication to site and trying it out yourself. Enjoy!
Publication from AHO's Urban Preservation Course Spring 2020. It presents a study of the changing narrative of St Olav's Place in the Centre of Oslo, undertaken by an international consultancy team of students comprising - Eudine Blancardi, Félix Blanchard, Kostas Argyriou, Kristofer Mattsson and Julian Riise. The project started as a normal study with community engagement and installations on site and then owing to Corona Virus, the team had to rethink the project and complete the study as a virtual project. The team were assisted by course leader Tom Davies, Viksjø expert- Even Smith Wergeland, community artists- Kim Frydenlund Grane & Torgeir Stige, Byantikvaren's Marte Muan Sæther, Post-war construction expert- Barbara Ascher, Norberg Schulz expert- Beata Labuhn, and Oxford Archaeology's Ben Ford. There are plans to realise the different 'chairs' in the report as experiences at SOP, which you can do right now by taking the publication to site and trying it out yourself. Enjoy!
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JUSTER CHAIR
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« Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen! ...
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My name is Leif Juster, and I am a Norwegian actor, singer, comedian and
theatre manager. I am Norway’s undisputed cabaret king and spider’s
(Edderkoppen’s) father.
Originally, the planner of St Olav’s Plass, City architect Georg Andreas
Bull’s residence was located here. This villa was built in 1860 after Bull’s
design. It was demolished in the 1930s and replaced by the functionalist
building which stands here today. This new building hosted apartment
houses and was designed by the architects Jarle Berg and Antti Norrgren.
Check out the corner of St. Olavs place 1. The Gildevangen Kaffistove
og Delikatesseforretning were both located here for a couple of years in
1941 and 1942. From 1943, Kaffistove moved to St. Olavs place 3, whilst
the Delicatessen business continued in St. Olavs place 1.
I got my big break at Scala in 1935 in the autumn show «We have the honour»
and in 1937 I joined the Chat Noir at Klingenberggata 5.
During the war, when I was the revue actor’s trustee in the Actors’ Association,
I spent a few months at Grini prison. This followed the actor strike
in May 1941 when we refused to present material by the Nazis. In autumn
1942, the first Revue Theater Edderkoppen was born in the Søilen Teater
at Keysers gate, south of St Olavs Plass. We moved to St Olavs Plass into
larger premises in 1945.
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If you check the page to the left you’ll see an advert for the Edderkoppen.
Sissel Lie, daughter of the first UN Secretary General, Trygve
Lie, like many other women, made several photo albums during the World
War II documenting the everyday life within the women’s army corps.
Sissel evacuated to the UK with her family early in the war, and on July 24,
1942, the exile government established military
service to all Norwegian women abroad.
Lie was enrolled in the Norwegian Army
Women’s Corps on August 5 of the
same year.
After the war ended in 1945, I moved
my EdderkoppenTheater to the new
venue on St. Olavs Plass where it ran it
until it sadly went bankrupt in 1966.
At the theatre’s best, in addition to
the theatrical plays, we show cased
dancing and various other events. I
wasn’t considered the Cabaret King
of Norway without good reason you
know!!
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