Rødtangen - Hurum - Norway
Triple exp. HDRThursday, 19 June 2008
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Drammen - Nightshots
Captured at midnight.
Nikon D200 - Tamron 17-50mm
Exposure time among 3,5 and 5 seconds.
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Oslo City Hall
The City Hall
Oslo City Hall is the political and administrative heart of Oslo. The building also has an important place in the history of Norwegian art and architecture and stands as a monument to the main artistic movements from the middle of the last century.
The main function of City Hall is naturally the political and administrative running of the capital. In 1986 Oslo was the first municipality in Norway to introduce a parliamentary system with a City Government. The Mayor is elected separately by the City Parliament and sits for the whole electoral period of four years. The City Parliament consists of 59 members who assemble about 15 times a year.
Oslo City Hall is the political and administrative heart of Oslo. The building also has an important place in the history of Norwegian art and architecture and stands as a monument to the main artistic movements from the middle of the last century.
The main function of City Hall is naturally the political and administrative running of the capital. In 1986 Oslo was the first municipality in Norway to introduce a parliamentary system with a City Government. The Mayor is elected separately by the City Parliament and sits for the whole electoral period of four years. The City Parliament consists of 59 members who assemble about 15 times a year.
In addition to being a work place for some 450 municipal employees and politicians, Oslo City Hall also attracts more than 100,000 guests, visitors and tourists every year. It is the capital’s most important venue for formal ceremonies, the best known being perhaps the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize. It is also an arena throughout the year for 400 or more large and small arrangements, receptions, banquets, award ceremonies, civil confirmations, etc. The tradition of holding civil weddings in the City Hall came to an end when the ceremony was transferred in 1994 to the new Oslo Courthouse.
The lower level of the Oslo City Hall, which is entered from the harbour side, houses the City Hall Gallery and the municipal Information Centre. The gallery presents a variety of changing exhibitions throughout the year and during the summer various events and activities are staged outdoors in the square.
HISTORY
In 1915 Hieronymus Heyerdahl, Mayor of Christiania (renamed Oslo from 1st of January 1925), presented a plan to combine the building of a new city hall with the clearance of Pipervika, the old slum area by the harbour. In 1918 an architectural competition was won by Arnstein Arneberg and Magnus Poulsson. Their final design, completed in 1930, combines the various artistic and architectural trends of the period. The blend of national romanticism, classicism and functionalism gives the building a truly unique character.
The foundation stone was laid in 1931 and a new city centre was gradually created on the site of the slum clearance, with the City Hall as the towering centrepiece of this ambitious development plan. World War II, however, delayed completion and the building was not officially inaugurated until 15th May 1950.
STATISTICS
The City Hall covers a ground area of 4,560 sq. metres. The total floor area is roughly 38,000 sq. metres distributed between two office towers and a central building containing the main hall and the city parliament chamber. The main hall is one of Norway’s largest public spaces with a floor area of more than 1,500 sq. metres and a ceiling height of 20.8 metres.
The east tower and the west tower are 66 and 63 metres high respectively. The Mayor and the Chief Commissioner of the City Government each occupy a corner office at the ground floor of the two towers.
In 1950, the City Hall had only 4 outside bells. Two years later, the carillon at the top of the east tower had 38 different bells. In the year 2000, however, a further 11 bells were added as part of the celebrations to mark Oslo’s 1000th anniversary and the City Hall’s 50th birthday. The carillon plays every day on the hour from 07.00 to 24.00. The bells are all cast in bronze consisting of 78% copper and 22% pewter precisely. The largest of the bells weighs as much as 4,000 kilograms (8,818 lbs), while the smallest weighs only 14 (31 lbs). Concerts are regularly played on the carillon during the summer.
The lower level of the Oslo City Hall, which is entered from the harbour side, houses the City Hall Gallery and the municipal Information Centre. The gallery presents a variety of changing exhibitions throughout the year and during the summer various events and activities are staged outdoors in the square.
HISTORY
In 1915 Hieronymus Heyerdahl, Mayor of Christiania (renamed Oslo from 1st of January 1925), presented a plan to combine the building of a new city hall with the clearance of Pipervika, the old slum area by the harbour. In 1918 an architectural competition was won by Arnstein Arneberg and Magnus Poulsson. Their final design, completed in 1930, combines the various artistic and architectural trends of the period. The blend of national romanticism, classicism and functionalism gives the building a truly unique character.
The foundation stone was laid in 1931 and a new city centre was gradually created on the site of the slum clearance, with the City Hall as the towering centrepiece of this ambitious development plan. World War II, however, delayed completion and the building was not officially inaugurated until 15th May 1950.
STATISTICS
The City Hall covers a ground area of 4,560 sq. metres. The total floor area is roughly 38,000 sq. metres distributed between two office towers and a central building containing the main hall and the city parliament chamber. The main hall is one of Norway’s largest public spaces with a floor area of more than 1,500 sq. metres and a ceiling height of 20.8 metres.
The east tower and the west tower are 66 and 63 metres high respectively. The Mayor and the Chief Commissioner of the City Government each occupy a corner office at the ground floor of the two towers.
In 1950, the City Hall had only 4 outside bells. Two years later, the carillon at the top of the east tower had 38 different bells. In the year 2000, however, a further 11 bells were added as part of the celebrations to mark Oslo’s 1000th anniversary and the City Hall’s 50th birthday. The carillon plays every day on the hour from 07.00 to 24.00. The bells are all cast in bronze consisting of 78% copper and 22% pewter precisely. The largest of the bells weighs as much as 4,000 kilograms (8,818 lbs), while the smallest weighs only 14 (31 lbs). Concerts are regularly played on the carillon during the summer.
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Since 1990 the Oslo City Hall has been the venue every 10th December for the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize. The ceremony, which is broadcast live on television throughout the world, has been a significant factor in making the City Hall an important tourist attraction for visitors to Oslo.
Source - Oslo kommune
Friday, 13 June 2008
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Some shots captured from Oslo harbour basin. # 2
Frognerkilen
Frognerkilen
The old Oslo nautical school
Ormsund port
Ormsund bridge
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Some shots captured from Oslo harbour basin. # 1
Oslo City Hall
Aker Brygge
The cruise season has successfully started
Visitor record
2008 will result in all time high considering the number of passengers. About 210 000 tourists will arrive at
Attractive capitol
The feedback from the survey done after the 2006 season, showed that the guests were very satisfied with their stay in
Crown Princess
Queen Victoria
Oslo Opera House
Friday, 6 June 2008
Sky Watch Friday # 13
Rødtangen - Hurum
Nikon D200, Tamron 17-50, Triple exposure.Oslo opera house
Nikon D200, Tamron 17-50For more Sky Watch photos, visit Wigger’s World.
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Dona Nobis Pacem - Nobel Peace Center Oslo
The Nobel Organizations are a number of institutions in Sweden and Norway.
The Nobel Foundation was created in 1900 as a private institution to administer Alfred Nobel’s estate and award the Prizes for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. It represents all the Nobel institutions and administers information activities and events connected with the Prizes.
When Alfred Nobel died in 1896 he specified in his Will which institutions should award the prizes in his name. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the prizes for physics and chemistry, the Karolinska Institute for medicine, the Swedish Academy for literature, and the Norwegian Parliament appoints a five-person committee to award the prize for peace.
In 1968, the Swedish central bank established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was given the task of awarding the economics prize in 1969.
The Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which is appointed by the Norwegian Parliament. The committee’s membership reflects the number of seats held by the various political parties. The Norwegian Nobel Institute was created in 1904 to assist the committee in its efforts to decide who should receive the Peace Prize.
The Nobel Museum in Stockholm promotes interest in, knowledge of and debate about science and the arts through creative educational methods, technology and elegant design.
Nobel Media was created in 2004 when the Nobel Foundation decided to take control of the copyright issues surrounding the Nobel Prizes. Nobel Media has three objectives: to develop the Nobel programmes and find new formats, distribute the Nobel programmes internationally and protect the Nobel Foundation’s brands and copyrights.
Nobelweb runs nobelprize.org. This is the official website where you can find out about all the prize winners down through the years. You will find information about all the Nobel laureates in all the categories in the form of lectures, interviews, speeches, articles, games and much more.
The Nobel Peace Center is the latest addition to the Nobel network. We opened on 11 June 2005 in a stylishly converted late 19th century railway station in the centre of Oslo. Our objective is to promote familiarity with the lives and work of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates and Alfred Nobel, and encourage reflection and debate on issues relating to war, peace and conflict resolution.
Join us. Please visit Mimi today, where you will find a list of those of us participating in the 2008 Peace Globes Movement.
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