Structures like this could soon be somewhere you beauty

THEY are dotted along the Norwegian landscape, tile cutting-edge modern architecture with the beauty of the natural world.

• Point drop view amazing more visited Trollstigen, Norway, designed by architects of Ramstad Reiulf tourist attraction
Now a replica project that saw more than 200 new eye-catching structures - including viewing platforms, picnic areas, and towers of bird-watching - created on popular tourist routes of Norway in the last 15 years is proposed for Scotland.
Architect Peter Wilson, alongside Forest Products Research Institute the University Napier, today is to propose projects to establish similar structures in Scotland, to add interest to national tourist routes spanning the country.
Skye, Dumfries and Galloway Caithness locations are the top of his list of possible sites for projects similar to those already built in Norway.
Mr. Wilson is presenting its ideas, as well as details of the successful Norwegian project Conference being held today in Edinburgh.
It will be tone idea politicians, local authorities, environmental agencies and tourist authorities to "architecture and design along with 18 National Tourist Routes: a model for Scotland", on the Hub in the old town of the city on the next two jours.Si idea is accepted, he believes construction on the first projects could begin by next year.
Mr. Wilson, who has an architectural practice in Edinburgh, visited Oslo year last to see Norwegian designs.
"I wanted to draw on their experience and know how they did it", he said. ""."It became central to the Norwegian overall strategy when Scotland architecture, I would like to see happen on a number of routes – perhaps not as 18, as they have in Norway, but the roads of 12 or so who visits Scotland has designated as a National Tourist Routes."
In Norway, projects, which are due to double by 2015, the number include a dramatic glass platform which is on a fjord in Stegastein, and point display designed by architects of Ramstad Reiulf allowing visitors to stand directly above a waterfall at the most visited of the Trollstigen tourist attraction Norway.
Norwegian authorities have spent the equivalent of approximately £ 150,000 on each project, with the total down all project totaling the equivalent of approximately £ 30 million.
Norwegian architect Einar Jarmund, who has designed eight projects for tourist routes, said that features had attracted "architectural tourists".
"Program has been widely discussed and drew many people," he said.




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