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 The Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was m ...

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

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. Qvam is especially known for his railway station architecture. Qvam and Engh won a contest to design

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in 1946. From 1956 he was a consultant for the municipal office that planned the Oslo Tunnel, as well as two stations in this tunnel:

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and

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. He also designed seven stations in the

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network. In the city center there were Jernbanetorget, Grønland and Tøyen, designed between 1961 and 1964 and opened in May 1966. On the

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there were

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, Risløkka, Vollebekk and Veitvet, designed between 1960 and 1964 and opened in October 1966.

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