I was lucky enough to visit the new Telenor offices recently as part of a business trip. They are built on the site of the old national airport at Fornebu, overlooking Oslofjord, the body of water that wraps itself around Oslo. The building is shaped like an eye, the old telenor logo, with two separate buildings forming the upper and lower parts of the eye, and the smaller separate building accessible via an overhead gangway is the centre.

When the sun is out and the sky is clear, the view is breathtaking and creates a really inspiring setting to work in and that was the goal of the building, to build an office of the future and a new way of working. Further examples of that goal come as you turn inward to face an expansive plaza, dotted with 92 space-odyssey style illuminated pillars, an art installation by French designer Daniel Buren. But perhaps the strangest piece of the building are the aphorisms that run along the top of the east building. They are the creation of Jenny Holzer and are quite dark when contrasted to the bright buildings, workers and setting. “I would kill her rather than watch a dirty ending but the killing would spoil my pity” was one uplifting example of what rolled by while we were taking a mid-morning break.