Oslo City Hall
Red-brick functionalist twin towers by the fjord, with a courtyard of painted Norse-myth wood reliefs.
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This guide to Oslo City Hall skips the council chamber and heads for the painted pine panels in the courtyard, where Dagfin Werenskiold carved the Norse myths as a world full of animals. You'll meet a gossiping squirrel, Thor's goats, Odin's eight-legged horse and the swan maidens who landed beside three brothers. Best heard standing in the courtyard, between the two rows of reliefs.
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