A Son of the Rock

The building housing Bergen’s District Court, (Tinhuset, on Tårnplassen 2,) is in that quasi-fascistic official building Art Deco style. Its wiki page says it was designed by Egill Reimers in neoclassical style but to me there are clear elements of Deco in it and it was designed during the 1930s.

Its entrance is adorned by stylised figures representing the four cardinal virtues, wisdom, justice, moderation and strength:-

The pillars are each surmounted by some sort of heraldic beast:-

Close-up:-

Detail; horizontals, verticals, banding, patterned brickwork:-

I found some better pictures of the court than mine on this flickr account.