The Contorted Architecture of Geopolitics
Together, two iconic buildings in Longyearbyen represent the changing logic of Norway’s geopolitical interests in the Arctic.
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RKV etter parallelloppdragene
Jeg har vært medlem av Evalueringskomiteen som denne våren har vurdert de sju prosjektene for det nye Regjeringskvartalet (RKV). Komiteen legger fram sin innstilling i dag 4.6.
Narwhal class
We are a class. A species. We are one. But most people do not know very much about us. They rarely focus on smaller members of my mammalian family of whales. People ride boats to watch the tail fins and gigantic plumes of air and spray. No lamps burning with whale fat today.
Embedded in the future
Some days all my nuclear empowerment makes me restless. Anxious even. Shark-like, I survey these Arctic waters. Murmansk, Vardø, Svalbard, across to the east coast of Greenland. And I love to lie shallow bays, chortling to myself with my thoughts of how to reveal the mysteries of climate change to the assemblies of scientists and tourists, behind my back, belly laid bare to the midnight sun, I find I become, well, a little reflective.
