https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Despite protests, the removal of two murals designed by Pablo Picasso began on Monday from an Oslo government building damaged in right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik's 2011 attack, a project manager said. https://www.thelocal.no/20200727/picasso-murals-removed-from-oslo-building-damaged-by-breivik Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:58:43 +0200 picasso-murals-removed-from-oslo-building-damaged-by-breivik New York's Museum of Modern Art has thrown its considerable cultural weight behind the campaign to rescue Oslo's brutalist Y-block building and its two gigantic sandblasted murals by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. https://www.thelocal.no/20200514/new-yorks-moma-calls-for-norway-to-save-picasso-building Thu, 14 May 2020 22:16:45 +0200 new-yorks-moma-calls-for-norway-to-save-picasso-building Norway's government will knock down three of the four buildings damaged in the 2011 bomb attack mounted by terrorist Anders Breivik, but preserve the brutalist tower which was the killer's main target. https://www.thelocal.no/20140526/norway-to-keep-high-rise-damaged-in-breivik-blast Mon, 26 May 2014 10:16:00 +0200 norway-to-keep-high-rise-damaged-in-breivik-blast Oslo City Council is leaning towards demolishing the 1958 government high rise damaged in far-Right terrorist Anders Breivik's 2011 bomb attack. https://www.thelocal.no/20131219/oslo-likely-to-demolish-tower-breivik-bombed Thu, 19 Dec 2013 09:29:37 +0100 oslo-likely-to-demolish-tower-breivik-bombed The concrete government tower bombed by far-right terrorist Anders Breivik is of "great national value" and should be repaired and preserved for posterity, Norway's cultural heritage directorate has ruled. https://www.thelocal.no/20131011/tower-breivik-bombed-should-be-preserved-government-report Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:41:00 +0200 tower-breivik-bombed-should-be-preserved-government-report Eight out of ten architects in Norway want to keep the concrete government tower damaged by Norway terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, citing its Picasso-designed murals and brutalist design, a survey for NRK has revealed. https://www.thelocal.no/20130904/architects-want-to-preserve-government-tower-bombed-by-breivik Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:43:00 +0200 architects-want-to-preserve-government-tower-bombed-by-breivik