Postgirobygget (building)
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Postgirobygget is a commercial building
Building
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 located at Biskop Gunnerus' gate 14 in Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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The building was designed by Norwegian architect Rolf Christian Krognes and constructed in 1975.
It has 26 floors and at 111 meter in height, is the second tallest building in Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. In 2003, the building went through a rehabilitation in which seven floors were added and the building was split in two towers.

The building serves, among other things, as the home office to Posten Norge, the Norwegian postal service. After the rehabilitation, Aftenposten newspaper moved into the building. Postgirobygget is owned by Entra Eiendom
Entra Eiendom
Entra Eiendom AS is a Norwegian government enterprise owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry. The company manages 1,2 million m² of real estate, primarily in Norway's seven largest cities....

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