Thorvald Astrup (18 May 1876 – 12 August 1940) was a Norwegian architect, particularly known for industrial architecture. He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of city captain Harald Astrup and Johanne Emilie Smith. He was a brother of Arctic explorer

Eivind Astrup Eivind Astrup (; 17 September 1871 – 27 December 1895) was a Norwegian explorer and writer. Astrup participated in Robert Peary's Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–92, expedition to Greenland in 1891–92 and mapped northern Greenland. ...

(1871–1895), merchant Sigurd Astrup (1873–1949) and architect Henning Astrup (1864–1896). His sister Hanna (1869–1933) was married to politician

Peter Andreas Morell Peter Andreas Amundsen Morell (1 January 1868 – 30 January 1948) was a Norwegian farmer and politician. Peter Morell was born in Aker (now Akershus), Norway. He was the son of Ole Amundsen (1827–85) and Johanna Gustava Kjelin (1844� ...

. He was educated at Kristiania Technical School in 1891-92 and Kristiania Fine Art School the following year. He also attended Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg from 1896 to 1897. In 1899 he started to work as an architect with Henrik Nissen and

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. In 1901, he opened architectural practice in Kristiania. From 1934, he worked together with his son, architect Henning Thorvaldsson Astrup (1904–83), under the company name Thorvald and Henning Astrup. Astrup specializing in industrial constructions, particularly related to power production and transmission, factories and

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s; many monumental installations were built in neoclassical or functionalistic style. These include Såheim Power Station in

Rjukan Rjukan () is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in Tinn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The town is also the administrative centre of Tinn Municipality. The town is located in the Vestfjorddalen valley, between the lakes Møsvatn ...

(1916), Tyssedal Power Station (1906), while the administration building for

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in Rjukan is built in

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style. His neoclassical buildings included the Soria Moria cinema in Oslo (1928). Astrup also designed all the railway stations on the Tinnoset Line and

Rjukan Line The Rjukan Line (), at first called the Vestfjorddal Line, was a Norwegian railway line running through Vestfjorddalen between Mæl and Rjukan in Telemark county. The railway's main purpose was to transport chemicals from Norsk Hydro's plan ...

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File:Oslo Töyen Trafostasjon hovinveien 1 rk 166157 IMG 5512.JPG, Tram station at Tøyen in Oslo File:Admini Rjukan.jpg, Norsk Hydro main building at Rjukan File:Soria Moria, Voftsgate, Oslo, 20080416.jpg, Soria Moria at Voftsgate in Oslo File:Tyssedal Kraftanlegg exterior.JPG, Tyssedal Hydroelectric power plant in Odda File:Bk 164098 - Industrianlegg - Margarinfabrikken Norge IMG 7293.JPG, Margarinfabrikken in Oslo

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1876 births 1940 deaths Architects from Oslo Technische Universität Berlin alumni Norsk Hydro people Art Nouveau architects Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour {{norway-architect-stub