Fornebuporten is one of the office and residential clusters that, in the last two decades, popped up in the land of what once was Oslo?s airport. The site, at the entrance to the Fornebu peninsula, is a gateway to this blooming new district.

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Architects: Dark Arkitekter · Office Profile, Zinc interior architects

Location: Oksenøyveien 8, 1366 Lysaker, Norway

Area: 83400.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Hufton+Crow · Photographer Profile

Project Team: Benedicte Bjercke, Elin Resch Brækken, Ingrid Marie Martinsen, Tor Christian Møglebust, Lars Ribbum, Ricardo Sousa, Vivian Steinsåker, and Zinc AS (interior architects)
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From the architect. Fornebuporten is one of the office and residential clusters that, in the last two decades, popped up in the land of what once was Oslo?s airport. The site, at the entrance to the Fornebu peninsula, is a gateway to this blooming new district.

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Two volumes confine a public plaza which central element is a lowered atrium.  Here a variety of retail programs is available not only to the 3000 people working at Fornebuporten but also to all the commuters that will use daily the future Fornebuporten metro station. The building mass surrounding the atrium connects the two building on the basement level. Th...