New theater requires new land!
DEBATE: Thanks to Byantikvaren for a crystal clear message about the Acropolis vision. She is critical of the demolition of the city’s oldest theater building. We have now seen in two or three sketches that the site is too cramped. It is time to state that a new modern theater stage must be located somewhere else in the centre.
Debate post
I have just visited Copenhagen and Oslo and registered an obvious trend with regard to the localization of cultural buildings. Along the Canal in Copenhagen, there are rows and rows of signal buildings with a cultural profile: the Opera, The Black Diamond and the Danish Architecture Center, DAC. Similarly, we find in Oslo: the Opera, Munch, Nye Deichman and at Pipervika: Astrup Fearnley and the new National Museum.
Contact to the sea for means openness, a form of attractive exclusivity.
“Byutviklingen’s long lines” pointed out in its note to the Center Plan an important point linked to the preservation and further development of a characteristic feature of our centre, namely at one outside the harbor ring solitary common functions such as: the Concert Hall, the Tollbooth, Gallery Skur 2, the Oil Museum and the Hutigbåt Terminalen.
New theater has previously been evaluated, among other things. Bekhuskaien.
It is time to take a step back and reassess Bekhuskaien, perhaps also other centrally located plot options. A main point in the City Center plan is center expansion, Bekhuskaien is located inside, near Nytorget, which will become the city’s Culture Square and no further from the “Jernbanen” and the Concert Hall. Maybe block up towards Bussveien if it is added to Klubbgata, and maybe taken further towards Badedammen instead of Holmen? This is now being investigated under the auspices of the municipality’s city center coordinator.
Some will ask, what about Eckhoff’s Theater building if it becomes vacant? We can choose to see it as a positive challenge. It can become the core of the establishment of something new and exciting within the culture segment, as we often see.