Space Group: Oslo Central Station
Check out Space Group’s proposal for the new Oslo Central Station – a response to an invited competition for a redesign of the station. The goal of the project? Simply to ‘to make the station become one of the most modern public transport hubs in Europe’. No big deal.
The proposal includes station facilities, a hotel, shopping, office, restaurants and an event space – redefining the station as a social and cultural hub.

Oslo Central Station once was the gate to the city from East. The situation with two polarizing stations in Oslo is now history and our strategy is a natural and delayed architectural response to this. The strong East – West axis has outplayed its role – and is replaced by a North-South axis, from the forest to the fjord – from the inner city to Bjørvika and the new opera.
The new station axis neutralizes the old stigmatized division between East and West. Oslo Central Station belongs to the whole city.
The grand move, gathering the station functions in a clear linear structure with a strong architectural identity makes it visible in the cityscape with recognizable announcement of entrances from North, South and West.

Personally, I’m really feeling the structure + form of the station itself [above] – contemporary, while reminiscent of more traditional European train stations. That, and the bold simplicity of that rectilinear bar, that’s then carved/eroded to form the civic space and station itself. Pretty dope.
Not really sure how I feel about that angular tower thing in the first image [my guess is hotel and shopping? I'm not sure]. The faceted gem-like skin is pretty cool, but it’s going to really pretty heavily on the perfect material choice and great construction to look as nice once built.
Plenty of time to figure that out though – construction is set to start in 2013 at the earliest, with a 5-10 year build.

::info + images via Space Group::
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Posted: July 25th, 2008
at 7:30am by orangemenace
Categories: architecture, featured ninjas, towering pagodas
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