architecture design - Norway

architecturePHOTO BY KNUT BRYstripped down architecture for inspiration when creating the travelingversion of the exhibit. Instead, they looked to early tourism and earlytourists’ penchant for “the mystical masterview” for ideas.The exhibition displays a selection of the constructions through astriking brass-trimmed display case from the 1900s. The case, inthe form of a rotunda, echoes Victorian England, and allows visitorsto view the installations and their surroundings through binoculars.Models of the constructions have also been created, and are displayedin glass cases surrounding the rotunda, with explanatoryposters.The contrast between the sleek, modern design of the installationsand the antique style of the rotunda adds to the unique experienceof the exhibit. Those visiting the exhibition have expressedfascination at the feeling of entering another world when lookingthrough the binoculars.After having been shown in Berlin and Paris, the exhibit can be visitedat the Norwegian Road Museum in Lillehammer throughout 2008.The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., will show theexhibit from early 2009, and the exhibit will travel to other cities inNorth America in the fall next year, and into 2010.PHOTO BY MAGNE FLEMSÆTERTop left and right: Tungeneset and AurlandLookout. Bottom left and right: Flydalsjuvet inGairanger and Askvågen in Møre og Romsdal.Bottom: The case through which the exhibit isviewed is in the form of a rotunda, and allows visitorsto see the installations and their surroundingsthrough binoculars.PHOTO BY TORD LUNDwww.norway.org | 9