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2008 · Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Oslo, Oslo, Norway

5°C · 15.0h daylight · 12 km/h wind

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Oslo Opera House

Oslo, Oslo, Norway · Exact work coordinates

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Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Climate: 5°C · 15.0h daylight · 12 km/h wind

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Comparison

Field	Oslo Opera House 2008 · Oslo, Oslo, Norway	Joseph Allen Stein 1952 · New Delhi, Delhi, India
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2008	1952
Place	Oslo, Oslo, Norway	New Delhi, Delhi, India
Place context	Oslo, Oslo, Norway	Representative site: Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Climate	5°C · 15.0h daylight · 12 km/h wind	29°C · 12.7h daylight · 2 km/h wind · via Express Towers
Focus	Opera house	2 works in corpus
Architects	Kjetil Trædal Thorsen	Joseph Allen Stein
Linked context	Bureaus Snøhetta	Notable works Express Towers India Habitat Centre
Typologies	performance venue civic building opera house	tower housing
Materials	marble glass concrete	stone
Carbon signals	Concrete, Glass, and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Glass Stone	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions. Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	Access not recorded across linked works
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.