The Opera house

We had to go and see the latest addition to the Oslo skyline, or water line as it were. The New Opera house, finished a couple of years ago and considered to be a huge feather in the cap of the Norwegian National pride. I am lucky to have such a generous cousin, and got an invite to her work's summer party which was held on the roof. The second photo is from the party (finally going home at midnight, as you see the sun was just casting its final rays on the city)
Anywho it was stupendus at night. Really, The final photo i ripped off of Wikipedia so that you could see the whole thing together. Here is a blurb about it, also from Wikipedia...

The Opera House was finished in 2007 with the opening event held on 12 April 2008. King Harald V of Norway opened the Opera House that evening at a gala performance attended by national leaders and royalty, including President Tarja Halonen of Finland, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. The main stage is 16 meters wide, and can be made up to 40 meters deep.
The structure provides a total area of 38,500 m² and includes 1,100 rooms, one of which has 1,350 seats and another has up to 400 seats. Total expenditures for the building project were planned at 4.4 billion NOK, but finished ahead of schedule, and 300 million NOK under budget.
The Opera won the culture award at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona in October 2008. Jury member Sir Peter Cook said of the Opera House that it "...in its scale, ambition and quality has raised the bar for Norwegian architecture.