4K Oslo 🇳🇴 Barcode Project: Transforming City With Architecture

[@archwalks]

What do you think about this part of Oslo?

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

got to remember how it looked like before it was built, with the highway and roundabout interchange on top of it, it literally cut through the area. Was definetly one of the worst waterfronts before, and turned into a high call neighborhood today

[@AlexM-cy9of]

what a city, the architecture, the urbanism, oslo is inspiring

[@archwalks]

We agree. Thanks for the comment ;)

[@gukk_bab_gang]

i am korean, thanks for your video. iam just searching for major assignments, but my efforts brought me here. It is very exciting and helpful for me. It makes me feel like iam traveling there.. Thank you !

[@archwalks]

Thank you for watching and for your feedback! It is important for us🌿

[@olgakulesh6021]

Таким набором необычных замечательных зданий не может похвастаться, наверное, ни один город👍🏻Было очень интересно смотреть!

[@archwalks]

Thank you for your comment!🌿

[@victormusiyachenko2030]

città molto interessante, grazie ai creatori del video!

[@archwalks]

Grazie!!🌿

[@erlingcorneliussen9609]

nice

[@archwalks]

thank you for watching!

[@backroomserklärt]

cool

[@archwalks]

Thank you!

[@TormodKlingenberg]

I am personally ambivalent. I like the "Barcode" itself for what it is. But I am not sure about the rest of Bjørvika. I am a bit saddended that they built "in" the barcode buildings and Oslo lost an iconic skyline (from the sea) that it had for a few years. And the Munch museum is not my cup of tea (and the building is VERY unpopular in Oslo). Also the streets are a bit "dead" and "corporate".

[@AngrocSound]

Munch I don't like either. I'd go as far as calling it hideous and not harmonizing with its surroundings at all. Rest I actually kinda appreciate for, if nothing else, a will to do something interesting. And there's a certain style that is common to the whole area (again, except for munch). And the new library there is top tier, honestly. Hanging around in that area in summer is very nice.

[@archwalks]

The Barcode It is a redevelopment project of a former industrial port. We believe that an industrial site does not produce a better skyline for the city than a project like barcode. Thanks for the comment!

[@TormodKlingenberg]

@@archwalks Yes i mean the skyline that existed after Barcode was completed and the industrial buildings and motorway was demolished.

[@roberturbanczyk204]

I can see well projected buildings with baddly planed space. Neighbours can watch eachother by windows becouse spaces between buildings are too small. This neighbourhood has just walking path with few trees insted of at least some small park and grass. I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand it's has waterfront and great architecture, on the other its lacking green spaces and distances between buildings

[@archwalks]

The concept of privacy in Scandinavian countries is very different from that of other countries. Just think that usually in Nordic countries there are apartments on the ground floor of the building. This would be unthinkable in Italy for example. Thank you

[@roberturbanczyk204]

@archwalks there is nothing wrong with flats on ground level with piece of garden. We build flats like this in Poland too but there are laws describing minimal distances between buildings and windows. I was thought scandinavians like nature and comfort, meanwhile postcommunistic blocks in central europe gives higher standard of living than presented neighbourhood

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

there's a small park just across the street from Barcode row, definetly within reach for the residents there Also the main roads are lined with trees

[@juppa]

There's literally parks and beaches surrounding it on all sides (expect the north, where you would have to cross the train tracks to get to them).

[@HansAbend]

For you its a problem

[@ChefEarthenware]

Hideous buildings. I hate modern architecture.

[@archwalks]

Viewpoints. For many people, contemporary buildings are desirable ones to live in. Thanks

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

would you rather like what has been there before?

[@sixpencerbx]

Agree and so does the majority of public perception. Most surveys done on architecture in Oslo indicates that the people heavily prefer traditional architecture to the modernist neoliberal copy and paste blocks they want people to live in. Movements such as Arkitektopprøret has been gaining popularity, championing the addition of more traditional and culturally enhancing architecture.

[@ChefEarthenware]

@@EnjoyFirefighting I certainly would. I find modern architecture depressing. Working in a modern building is bad enough, living in them is even worse. The intention seems to be to force as many people into as small a space as possible. There is no consideration for quality of life. There's a reason that the people who design these buildings don't live in them.

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

@@ChefEarthenware you certainly would? Before they built them they had a cobination of roads and highway adding up to 13 lanes of traffic, very few, boring and ugly looking commercial buildings and a large empty plot of land which kind of was used as parking lot "There is no consideration for quality of life." the borough they've created there definetly has 1000 times more quality of life than the 13 lane wide highway and roads combo, with literally no apartment building, no recreational area or whatsoever other things at all. It turned into a neighborhood which is rather quite in terms of road traffic and busy with people. People love it there. Look up google pictures for "Bispelokket" ... that's what has been in that place before. Tell me you really would like to have that instead of a livable urban neighborhood ...

[@magnus5576]

Inhuman, sterile architecture. Architecture that is not nice now and will age even worse.

[@archwalks]

Hi, thanks for the comment. Why is Barcode architecture sterile and inhuman?

[@magnus5576]

@ I think good architecture should integrate into it’s environment and nature. This is just no nature, no greens, no hills and indifferencies in landscape kept. This could be any city in the world, what says this is in Norway? Square, sterile buildings. Bad proportions, no rounded edges, towers etc. Classic architecture is pleasing on the eye and timeless (just look at the greek, roman architecture that’s still being loved). Modern architecture (off course there are exceptions but 90% is neither beautiful or cozy to live in) have been ruining beautiful, old cities for the last 100 years but still modern architects seem to have no regret or want to learn from the misstakes (off course, you can say that it’s just my opionion but it’s the absolute majority of the populations option so it should matter for architects). I don’t mean that this piece of architecture is worse than any other modern architecture. Just a beautiful location in the capital of Norway that could have been used much better.

[@ЮлияСарычева-в4э]

I dont think it is beautiful, the color is very scary

[@archwalks]

The idea of beauty is relative. Thanks for the comment!

[@bioliv1]

@@archwalks No it's not, check out professor Bin Jiang's "Beautymeter"!

[@bioliv1]

It's horrible there, the newly oil rich Norway's grim grin to the Fjord, and too it blocks out the city from the Fjord. It stinks like Dubai😕 Go to gentrified Grünerløkka, a former workers district or "circus for the working class". Well, we don't have the circus anymore, at least not here I live, but I can still visit Grünerløkka, a circus of my taste!

[@bioliv1]

It's horrible there, the newly oil rich Norway's grim grin to the Fjord, and too it blocks out the city from the Fjord. It stinks like Dubai😕 Go to gentrified Grünerløkka, a former workers district or "circus for the working class". Well, we don't have the circus anymore, at least not here I live, but I can still visit Grünerløkka, a circus of my taste!

[@archwalks]

The barcode is a redevelopment project of a former industrial site. The situation today is certainly better than a few years ago when there was a factory on the fjord. Thanks for the comment.

[@bioliv1]

​@@archwalks No, the factories were long gone, Bjørvika with the Barcode was a huge traffic machine that didn't block the fjord. To be stuck in the traffic in the tunnels underneath Barcode today, is a horrific experience, much better when the traffic was above ground. Luckily my favorite store at Barcode just went bankrupt, where they will restart with a simpler concept in a cheaper part of the city🙂

[@rowaystarco]

@@bioliv1 It was absolutely not much better when the traffic was above ground, it was horrible.

[@bioliv1]

@@rowaystarco No, then you had a nice view to the fjord when stuck in traffic jam, and too if you've asthma and is stuck in this tunnel with poor ventilation of your car, you're almost dead when you finally get out!

[@rowaystarco]

@@bioliv1 How lovely, giving the view and spaces near the fjord to people driving in polluting cars..