This breathtaking lookout, created by Todd Saunders & Tommie Wilhelmsen, has won the first prize in Norwegian tourist routes competition.
Also check out: Breathtaking Viewing Platform in Austria
This breathtaking lookout, created by Todd Saunders & Tommie Wilhelmsen, has won the first prize in Norwegian tourist routes competition.
Also check out: Breathtaking Viewing Platform in Austria
johannes
Didn’t notice the plexiglass at first, hence was teeing up to write something about things dangerously overemphasizing form over function. It IS pretty cool – but does anyone else think it looks like something out of an Ikea catalogye?
Aug 8th, 2008
Torgeir from Norway
Agreed johannes :P
Aug 8th, 2008
Complicious
haha i agree Ikea and Old Navy :-) Very cool and beautiful though
Aug 8th, 2008
Lauren
agreed on the ikea. i think if it was a darker wood it would blend into the surroundings and not look so “cheap”
Aug 8th, 2008
lisa
crazy, but imaginative…..
Aug 8th, 2008
Ian
What exactly is the reason/ purpose??? Alot of work for…?
Aug 8th, 2008
Jim
The purpose is to give land lubbers a view only birds and airplane pilots get.
A similar thing as been done at the Grand Canyon, Arizona, with a glass floor so you can, if you don’t suffer from vertigo, look straight down.
Aug 8th, 2008
DJ
That is really cool. At first I thought is was a skiing long jump ramp without any snow. When I realized it wasn’t, I couldn’t figure it out until I read the text.
It reminds me of a scene from The Trouble with Angels. The students are in an art class and one creates something completely baffling. The teacher walks by and says “Charlotte, that’s very imaginative. I don’t know what it is, but it’s very imaginative.”
Aug 8th, 2008
Sean
They should take that plexiglass off and reduce the idiot population a little.
Aug 8th, 2008
Loki
I was thinking it would be a great launch point for gliders. Just use the cliff side thermals to work your way down the water line. Assuming there’s a place to land somewhere up ahead.
Aug 8th, 2008
sir jorge
that is incredible for sure
Aug 8th, 2008
Jim Jones
Dude that is too cool. Wouldnt want to roll off the end of it though! LOL
Jt
Aug 8th, 2008
rachel
how do you use it since there are no stairs?
Aug 8th, 2008
Jared
Why would there be stairs? you access this platform from the road, and theres plexiglass at the end of it for u to look down. u dont go down anything
Aug 8th, 2008
brain
why does the railing go down the other side?
Aug 8th, 2008
mat
no let her go down.
Aug 8th, 2008
mr.jinx
It doesn’t really blend in with the environment. It is almost an eye sore.
Aug 8th, 2008
Brian
Absolutely beautiful!
Aug 9th, 2008
Don G
I agree that this has elements of Scandinavian design, but to say it looks like something from Ikea suggests to me you think all Scandinavian design eminates from Ikea, rather than Ikea been influenced by Scandinavian design.
Also to say it looks cheap beecause it looks Scandavian and therefore Ikea takes the point missing to a whole new level.
Aug 9th, 2008
Nick Breau
We just got back from a trip to that area last month, here is what you see looking out from the lookout.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nbreau/2635835171/in/set-72157605971001182/
Aug 9th, 2008
ceeque
yep, def needs to be a darker coloured wood finish … it does look a bit cheap and Ikea like this… interesting idea though!
Aug 9th, 2008
johannes
Don G – I have no intention of mocking Scandinavian design – in fact, I don’t know anything about Scandinavian design. What I do know, however, is Ikea.
Personally, I don’t think it looks cheap. On the contrary, it looks very, very expensive.
Aug 10th, 2008
Chuck
The plexiglass (it actually looks like real glass) seems to be really thin. I get the willies just looking at it.
Aug 10th, 2008
Jerke Wadde
Oh, isn’t it good, Norwegian wood.
Aug 11th, 2008
Jörel
It looks like an “ättestupa” – the precipices (allegedly) used in Sweden in the old days as an exit option for those members of society who could no longer make a useful contribution.
Scary design with the invisible plexiglas protection – on the pictures people seem to keep a robust safety margin just in case…
Someone commented that it does not blend in with the environment. Why should a provocative design attempt to do that I wonder…?
Aug 12th, 2008
Sarah
It’s completely incredible. I love it when wacky people come up with these ideas, because you automatically think wow! It looks great, I didn’t even see the plexiglass until the third photo.
Aug 17th, 2008
Kym
A wee bit too tempting for people wanting to comit suicide!
Just a thought, no-one else had mentioned.
Peace Love & Light.
BTW It is gorgeous.
Aug 19th, 2008
JP
@Kym.
When wathcing the view, the suicidal thoughts disappear… if not the urge to fly takes over that is!?
Aug 20th, 2008
Spacer
WOW me wants to slide down thatt!!}:-D
Aug 23rd, 2008
Karen
m..m Makes my toes curl
Aug 26th, 2008
alex
Great piece, we would not be talking about it if it blended to the enviroment like most suggested. If I ever felt like plummiting to my death, this sir would be the place.
Sep 6th, 2008
Doug
Beautiful, but what I don’t get… how they can put that on an icy curve with no place to park. Looks like a treacherous place to pull over.
Sep 9th, 2008
tasarimci
:s
The purpose is to give land lubbers a view only birds and airplane pilots get.
A similar thing as been done at the Grand Canyon, Arizona, with a glass floor so you can, if you don’t suffer from vertigo, look straight down.
Sep 30th, 2008
kirtasiye
The plexiglass (it actually looks like real glass) seems to be really thin. I get the willies just looking at it.
Oct 1st, 2008
altınbaş
Oh, isn’t it good, Norwegian wood.
Oct 1st, 2008
ob
why is there no snow on it?
Oct 1st, 2008
wspinaczka
Nice, Road to Nowhere ;]
Oct 3rd, 2008
ingilizce
how do you use it since there are no stairs?
Oct 14th, 2008
baba
The purpose is to give land lubbers a view only birds and airplane pilots get.
A similar thing as been done at the Grand Canyon, Arizona, with a glass floor so you can, if you don’t suffer from vertigo, look straight down.
Oct 17th, 2008
logo
What exactly is the reason/ purpose??? Alot of work for…?
Oct 18th, 2008
pelin
who will use it?
Please some one explain?
Oct 26th, 2008
spriggig
This will show up in a future James Bond movie, no doubt. He’ll probably drive a Mini Cooper off it or something.
Oct 27th, 2008
kids girls games
I agree Ikea and Old Navy too. Very cool but I dont understand that who use it and for :O
Nov 2nd, 2008
me
been there on a cruise its dope recommend it
Nov 4th, 2008
Dick
did anyone else notice the road that runs past this thing? i wonder if on a snowy day someone turns down that thing and goes arse over applecart down into the fjord.
Nov 15th, 2008
chris
Remove the glass wall and put a net 25ft below, it would add some more tingle to the view!
Dec 21st, 2008
Ron Donald
I loved those pictures they where so great to look at.
Jan 11th, 2009
William Wallace
It could be a beautiful piece of artwork as well as a breathtaking view point, but it just misses out. If only it could have blended into its surroundings better, all it needs is a colour change and it would look amazing.
Sep 8th, 2009
Iris
Coating it would be masking it to look more like tropical woods, like mahogany. And mild and tropical baby is not exactly Aurland. Or maybe in the summer, global warming is taking it’s toll up north too. I figure, if actually there, you will have seen a lot of the primary color vs white contrast used in building up there, and a bit of naked wood would not be so rad and off put-ish. Not to mention the occasional nude ice bather.
Besides, showing what the wood looks like on the inside does relate to surroundings, Scandinavian to context. And human intervention is always just that- trying to hide it to much just makes us look a bit disney.
Dec 14th, 2009
alex
some nutter’s going to drive his car down it
Apr 15th, 2010