Peer Hafslo Qvam (24 December 1911 – 27 July 1977) was a Norwegian architect. He was born at

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, Norway. He was a son of chemical engineer Olaf Hafslo Qvam (1873–1960) and his wife Sigrid Sørby (1875–1929). He enrolled as a student in 1931, and graduated in architecture from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1936. In 1938 he married Elsa Wik (1913-1981). He first worked for architects Johan Meyer, Dagfinn Morseth and Mads Wiel Gedde. In 1944 he started his own architect's office in

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. From 1946 to 1958, Qvam worked in partnership (Engh og Seip Arkitektkontor A/S) with John Engh. Qvam is especially known for his railway station architecture. Qvam and Engh won a contest to design Oslo Central Station in 1946. From 1956 he was a consultant for the municipal office that planned the

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, as well as two stations in this tunnel: Elisenberg and

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. He also designed seven stations in the

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network. In the city center there were

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, Grønland and

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, designed between 1961 and 1964 and opened in May 1966. On the

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there were

Carl Berners plass Carl Berners plass is a square in Oslo, Norway. It is located in the borough Helsfyr, south of Sinsen. The Sinsen Line of the Oslo Tramway runs over the square. The colloquial expression for the square is just "Carl Berner". Around the square is a ...

, Risløkka, Vollebekk and

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, designed between 1960 and 1964 and opened in October 1966.

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