Eggum rasteplass

Also known as Eggum Rest Area

Architect

Snøhetta

Year

2007

Style

Contemporary

Type

garden pavilion

Eggum rasteplass occupies a worked-out gravel pit on the seaward side of Vestvågøy, at the point where the road along the outer edge of the island simply stops. Snøhetta reshaped the pit, on the sheltered flank of the hill Kvalhaugen…

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2007
Original construction
Snøhetta
1992
Hode
The head in iron and granite by Markus Raetz, 178 centimetres high, was set up about two kilometres west of Eggum village. It belongs to Skulpturlandskap Nordland and stood on the site long before the rest area was laid out.
2007
Completion
An amphitheatre-shaped rest area with gabion walls and steps, a car park and a service building in two volumes opened as a stop on Nasjonal turistveg Lofoten. Snøhetta designed the scheme, laid out on a site that already carried the…
Snøhetta