🏛️ Architecture & Design Oct 16, 2026 · Yuki Sumner

Oslo’s New Government Quarter Reclaims a Site of Terror Through Architecture

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Oslo’s New Government Quarter Reclaims a Site of Terror Through Architecture
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How do you design for democracy? This was the key question for Team Urbis, a consortium led by Nordic Office of Architecture (and including Haptic Architects, Scenario, and i-d. Interiørarkitektur & Design), when they won the competition to transform Oslo’s New Government Quarter, just six years after the terrorist attacks of July 22, 2011 tore the area apart. Eight people were killed, and at least 210 were injured by the blast from a powerful bomb, planted in a car park under one of the gov

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