Diamanten ("The Diamond") or Oksenøyveien 3 is an office building located at

Fornebu Fornebu (local form ''Fornebo'') is a peninsular area in the suburban municipality of Bærum in Norway, bordering western parts of Oslo. Oslo Airport, Fornebu (FBU) served as the main airport for Oslo and the country since before World War II and ...

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. It was built in 1985 as the head office of the airline

Braathens SAFE Braathens ASA, until 1997 Braathens South American & Far East Airtransport A/S and trading as Braathens SAFE, was a Norwegian airline which operated from 1946 until it merged with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) in 2004 to become SAS Braathens. Fo ...

, and later became the head office of

SAS Braathens SAS Braathens was the name of Norway's largest airline, created by a merger between Scandinavian Airlines' Norwegian division and Braathens in 2004. On June 1, 2007, the airline was integrated into mainline SAS, and changed its name to SAS Scandi ...

before the merger with

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. As of April 1, 2010, it has been the head office of

Norwegian Air Shuttle Norwegian Air Shuttle Aksjeselskap, ASA, trading as Norwegian, is a Norway, Norwegian Low-cost carrier, low-cost airline and Norway's largest airline. It is the fourth largest low-cost carrier in Europe behind Wizz Air, easyJet and Ryanair, the ...

Facilities

The building is , of which office space accounts for . It runs over three stories and has 177 parking spaces. It has a glass façade and is built in a postmodernist style, with the various annexes shaped like diamonds.

History

When Braathens SAFE was informed they had to leave their rented offices at Ruseløkkveien 26, the company decided to build a new head office near

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. Diamanten was taken into use on 16 December 1985 and was officially opened in January 1986 by Minister of Transport and Communications Johan J. Jacobsen. The building was expanded in 1997. After

Scandinavian Airlines System Scandinavian Airlines, more commonly known and styled as SAS, is the flag carrier of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. ''SAS'' is an abbreviation of the company's full name, Scandinavian Airlines System or legally Scandinavian Airlines System Denmark ...

and Braathens merged to create

, Diamanten became the new company's headquarters. From 2007, when SAS Braathens was merged into SAS, it became SAS' head office in Norway. SAS rented the building for

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1,300 per square meter per month, giving a rental cost of NOK 17.4 million in 2009. After SAS decided to reduce its Norwegian administration from 300 to 100 people, it chose to move out of Diamanten from February 2010. On 24 February 2010, Norwegian Property announced that they had sold the building to Hbk Invest, which is 84% owned by

Bjørn Kjos Bjørn Kjos (born 18 July 1946) is a Norwegian aviator, lawyer, and business magnate. He is best known as the founder and CEO of Norwegian Air Shuttle, briefly Scandinavia's largest airline, and Europe's third largest low-cost airline. Early ...

, the largest owner and CEO of Norwegian Air Shuttle. The building cost NOK 175 million, giving a yield of 8%. At the same time, Norwegian Air Shuttle announced that they would move their head office from various offices at Fornebu to Diamanten. The rental agreement has a duration of ten years, with an option to extend for another five years and the right to purchase the building for the price paid by HKB Invest.

References

{{reflist Buildings and structures in Bærum Braathens Norwegian Air Shuttle Office buildings completed in 1985 1985 establishments in Norway Airline headquarters Office buildings in Norway