Boligblokker i hardt klima. Hesteskoblokka i Hammerfest og Ormen långe i Svappavaara

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Elin Haugdal
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2015
• Subjects: Hesteskoblokka; Ormen Långe; Ralph Erskine; Astrup og Hellern; boligblokker; seinmodernisme; Norwegian literature; PT8301-9155; Norway; Erskine; Astrup; Svappavaara; Hammerfest
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3681; https://doaj.org/article/85cec6dcb838406898dc1db68465a640

Large scale residential buildings from the modernist era have been severly criticized for being hostile both towards people and the environment. In small towns and in less urbanized areas in northern Scandinavia such residential blocks are highly visible elements in the landscape. When Hesteskoblokk...