The Storting building in Oslo was designed by Emil Victor Langlet of Sweden. The Storting rejected the 1856 competition winners, Schirmer and von Hanno, and chose Langlet's design in 1860 by a vote of 59 to 47. The article names no client. Construction began on August 3, 1860, and the infobox and text agree it was taken into use on March 5, 1866.
The infobox calls the style eclectic, and the text mixes French and Italian inspirations. The walls are yellow brick with light gray granite details and basement. The lions on Løvebakken, placed in 1865, are nordmarkite granite. The article gives no dimensions.
German forces occupied the building in 1940, and Reichskommissar Josef Terboven used it. Nils Holter added an office building behind it from 1951 to 1959. It is the seat of the Norwegian Parliament. The article gives no hours.
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