A place called vertigo
I hate heights, so, although I love this amazing structure in Norway, I'm not sure I could walk on it. The Aurland Lookout, created two years ago by Saunders Architecture, reaches out over the Aurland Fjord – and appears to fall into it.
Todd Saunders, a Canadian architect based in Bergen, won first prize in a national competition by the Norwegian Highway Department to build a lookout for Aurland.
Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen brought the precipitous platform into being in December 2005, and it was opened to the public in June 2006.
Ever since, visitors have been walking right to its perspex edge and peering out over the precipice.
Like I said, it looks amazing, but my knees are buckling just thinking about it. RM
Images: Saunders Architecture
2008 Sep 8
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