Dressed in snow-white marble and blue-tinted glass, The Oslo Opera House is the largest cultural construction in Norway since the construction of the Nidarosdomen Cathedral in the 14th century. It is home to the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet and is the national opera theatre in Norway. Designed by the Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta, The Opera House won the Culture Award at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona in October of 2008.
The Opera House took five years to build and consists of 19,000 square metres of marble. The building's exterior is covered with more than 33,000 individual marble stones. This extraordinary building has a slanted roof surface that rises from beneath the waters of the Oslo fjord that is open for visitors to walk on. The space also features a chandelier in the main concert hall that consists of 17,000 glass units and beautiful wooden ramps created by traditional Norwegian boat architects.
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