Oslo Central Station // Oslo // Norway

This futuristic and visionary railway station in Oslo is designed by the Norwegian-based SPACE GROUP. The goal of this project, is to create one of Europe's most High-Tech and modern railway stations. It is not the first project of its type (projects regarding modernizations of railway stations), but it is expected to be one of the first completed. Construction is expected to begin in 2013 and expected to end between the years 2018 and 2023. The construction costs are estimated to be around €361 million. 

The project's 80,000 m2 are to room station facilities, offices, a hotel tower, shops, conference rooms, restaurants and bistros and an open event space. The Oslo Central Station was once the heart of the Norwegian capital, but time has apparently altered its role in the city, which is why the SPACE GROUP architects are attempting to revive the city's station to once more be a social center. The architecture of the project has a sort of modernized Gothic church sort of character, making some areas of the station seem almost like the interior of a church (notice the above picture).

Kilden Performing Arts Center // Kristiansand // Norway

The Kilden Performing Arts Center in Kristiansand, Norway is designed by the Finnish architect group ALA. This project isn't rather new, as a matter of fact, it dates back to 2005, the year in which ALA architects won the competition for the building. The building is currently under construction and is estimated to stand ready at its site by the year 2010. The site is a tight renewed former industrial pier.

The building is to house a theater and a concert hall, which are both symbolically connected with the easy-to-spot massive curving wall that leans towards the water, while wrapping all its functions within it (the two halls).