Images of BergenKalmarhuset in <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Bergen?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bergen</a>, drawn by local architect Leif Grung, built in 1936, image likely from just before WWII. One of our prime examples of <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/functionalism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#functionalism</a>, of which Grung was a Norwegian pioneer. The curved front was drawn to accommodate a bend in a planned highway towards Nøstet, which was fortunately never made.<br>
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Grung had many projects and ideas for socially developing a city, and also contributed to future infrastructure. He had ideas of a tunnel under Ulriken, and a bridge across Puddefjorden, both which became reality, and he praised the modern <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bus?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bus</a>: "They command respect, not only because the product is excellent architecture, but also because it offers what one today demands from a means of transport."<br>
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One of his more controversial thoughts – at least in retrospect – was to demolish <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Bryggen?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bryggen</a>, and replace it with glass and concrete functionalism, perhaps something that could have become a tourist attraction in itself.<br>
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And I haven't even mentioned that he was a double agent during WWII, and in constant fight with some of Bergen's other star architects. <br>
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Photo by Atelier KK, through University of Bergen Library: <a href="https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-n-420-091.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-n-420-091.html</a><br>
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