Kristiansund Opera and Culture Centre will house Norway's oldest opera, dating back to 1805, which every year arranges the Opera Festival Weeks - Norway's largest and most comprehensive presentation of opera and musical theatre and one of Scandinavia’s largest opera festivals.

New Science Classroom at The Bertschi School Expected To Meet Greenest Building Standards.

Groundbreaking ceremonies were held today for a cutting-edge green science building for The Bertschi School, an independent elementary school on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Designed to meet the standards of the Living Building Challenge, the project is expected to be the first Living Building constructed in Washington State.

Slated for completion in November 2010, the classroom was designed by the Restorative Design Collective, a multi-disciplinary team comprised of some of the region’s leading green building professionals who contributed their services pro-bono. The Bertschi School’s new science building is the first project in the City of Seattle to use version 2.0 of the Living Building Challenge. Version 2.0 broadens the focus of the Living Building Challenge to include new imperatives based on additional societal and site requirements, including urban agriculture and equity.