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Two distinctive timber building traditions found their confluence in Norwegian architecture. One was the practice of log building with horizontal logs notched at the corners, a technique thought to have been imported from the peoples to the east of Scandinavia.
The name derives from the building's structure of post and lintel construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing ore-pine posts are called stafr in Old Norse (stav in modern Norwegian). Two related church building types also named for their structural elements, the post church and palisade church, are often called 'stave churches'.
[4] [5] [6] Loft buildings dating from around 1200 are preserved in rural areas. Lofts were typically built in log technique, unlike the post and lintel construction in stave churches. Many lofts have an external corridor or balcony (Norwegian: svalgang) resting on a log corbel. [7] [8] [9] The oldest non-religious wooden buildings in Norway ...
The poles (Norwegian: stavene) have given name to this church type. Stave churches are now considered to be among the most important representatives of European medieval architecture in wood and are represented by the Urnes Stave Church on the UNESCO World Heritage List. This list contains 28 preserved stave churches.
However, this building is a timber-concrete composite building since it has a concrete core stabilizing the building, according to the definition of CTBUH. [5] The Japanese wood products company Sumitomo Forestry is proposing to build the W350 Project a 350 m (1,150 ft), 70-floor tower to commemorate its 350th anniversary in 2041. [6]
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Urnes Stave Church (Norwegian: Urnes stavkyrkje) is a 12th-century stave church at Ornes, along the Lustrafjorden in the municipality of Luster in Vestland county, Norway.. The church sits on the eastern side of the fjord, directly across the fjord from the village of Solvorn and about five kilometres (3 mi) east of the village of Hafslo.
By the 1700s, the church had started to fall into disrepair and was not in great condition. In 1723, the church was sold at the Norwegian church auction when the King sold off all the churches to help pay debts from the Great Northern War. The new church owner paid 20 riksdaler for the church building and 8 0 riksdaler for the land. In 1754, a ...