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Tjuvholmen Icon Complex, Oslo

The brief asked for a signal building with a sculpture park. Renzo Piano's grandly rigged curved roof spans across a museum and office complex, and marks the end of the Aker Brygge harbourside promenade.

Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop / Narud Stokke Wiig as sivilarkitekter MNAL
Published 25 Apr, 2013
 
Tjuvholmen Icon Complex. Photo: Knut Ramstad

Tjuvholmen Icon Complex.
Photo: Knut Ramstad

The canal.
Offices to the left, Astrup Fearnley Museum to the right, with Aker Brygge and the Oslo Town hall straight ahead.

The little beach in the sculpture park.

The canal, view out to the Oslo Fjord. Astrup Fearnley Museum to the left, offices to the right.

The bridge across to the entrance to the temporary exhibitions.

Astrup Fearnley Museum. The foyer of the temporary exhibitions wing.

Astrup Fearnley Museum. Temporary exhibitons wing, main space.

Astrup Fearnley Museum. Temporary exhibitons wing, mezzanine.

Aker Brygge, with the Tjuvholmen Icon Complex.

Plan, museum entrance level.

Plan, level 1.

Plan, level 2.

Site plan.

Completion: 2012

Address:
Tjuvholmen, Oslo

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Photo:
Nic Lehoux, Knut Ramstad, Ketil Jacobsen (interiors)

The museum at Tjuvholmen was given as a direct commission to Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Early on in the project RPBW chose Narud Stokke Wiig Sivilarkitekter as local partners. The project comprises the museum on the island as well as an exhibition building and an office building on Tjuvholmen itself. The island also offers a sculpture park and a small beach.

The most important element in the design is the double curved roof covering all three building volumes and the new canal. The roof rests on laminated timber beams and cable rigged steel columns. The facade is clad with aspen panelling, treated with iron vitriol.

The canal extends the harbourside promenade that leads from the Oslo Town Hall to the new ferry landing by the fjord. Timber walkways flank the canal, while the promenade and the stairways are paved with stone.

See Ivan Brodey's photo series of Tjuvholmen Icon Complex here.
See the Tjuvholmen Icon Tower here.