Norway - Architecture Trip

View of a fjord chasm swept by low cloud

Outside the Opera House in Oslo were two tanks facing
each other. The opposing one said "YES".
I was blown away by it...

Huge fjord mountains with waterfalls etching the laziest
path toward the massive river below

Last week myself and 77 other architecture students ventured out to Norway, on a trip to discover typical and atypical vernacular and international Nordic and Norwegian architecture. The first two days were mainly spent looking out our bus window at the amazing landscapes of huge fjord cliffs and stopping off at unique modern and ancient architecture sites, from a church built in 2009 to an original 'stave' church built in 1183, which was covered in a circus-like canvas and scaffolding to aid it's restoration.

After staying in a beautiful motel, we moved to Oslo, staying in much cheaper hostel accommodation. We spent much time wandering the city and were not disappointed by the vast multitude of recent architecture. I learnt quickly that you can spend money very fast in Oslo, ergo, McDonalds learnt very quickly that I could eat cheeseburgers very fast.

It was a great time for the architecture students to bond, and the diversity of Europeans students is quite amazing.