mandag april 24, 2006 City fires
Traditionally, Trondheim has a lot of wooden buidlings. The old parts of the city is quite pittoresque and during summer there's a lot of tourists strolling through the streets. Our worst nightmare is a blazing fire in these areas. In 1681 the whole city burned down, and half the city burned in 1842. The list is very long. Last friday there was another fire, luckily only one building burnt down.
I took the picture below the day after a whole block burnt down in December 2002.
But, this is seems to be an ongoing process. After the fire in 2002, there was a lot of discussion on how to rebuild the block. Thankfully, it was decided to build modern buildings and not to reconstruct the old buidldings which was built after the fire in 1842. Exactly the same was done in 1842. They did not reconstruct the old buildings, but built according to "modern" architecture and technology as it was in the 1840's. I think the resulting buildings are very nice.
Posted by bernt ( apr 24 2006, 06:24:16 PM CEST ) Permalink Comments [0]