Kristiansund is a town with 25 000 inhabitants on the west coast of Norway, 400 kilometers north of Oslo.
Kristiansund consists of four islands: Nordlandet, Kirkelandet, Gomalandet and Innlandet. The local joke is that it's impossible for thieves to escape from the last one; there is only one way out and that's through the other three islands!
In the 1960s there wasn't believed to be any oil outside Norway but anyway, one company started to drill in 1966. Three years later, on the 23rd of December 1969, oil was found and since then Norway has been a rich country. Ten years later the oil industry was established in Kristiansund and today it's still one of the most important parts in their economy. Many countries that have become rich in the last decades spend their money on functional buildings like parking houses rather than cultural buildings like operas and theatres, and in a way this is also the case in Norway.
The main street in Kristiansund has the same height difference as the main street in Rome, so the german architect designed it in the same way. In his design there's a beach in the end of the street but that doesn't exist. The beautiful playing hall is placed on this street - the pink house in the centre of the picture.
