Ole Bernhard Øvergaard (1893–1972) was a Norwegian architect.

Ole Bernhard Øvergaard was born in Fredrikstad

Fredrikstad

is a city and municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad....

, in Østfold

Østfold

is a county in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden , while Buskerud and Vestfold is on the other side of the bay. The seat of the county administration is Sarpsborg, and Fredrikstad is the largest city.Many manufacturing facilities are situated here. Moss and...

  county, Norway. He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology

Norwegian Institute of Technology

The Norwegian Institute of Technology, known by its Norwegian abbrevation NTH was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 85 years, after which it was merged into the University of Trondheim as an independent...

 in 1916. Important buildings designed by Øvergaard include the Norwegian Radium Hospital. Together with Nils Holter (1899-1995), he designed Kringkastingshuset, also known as Det hvite hus, headquarters of Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. From 1956 to 1960 he presided over the National Association of Norwegian Architects.

Other sources

• Sandnes, Svein; Morten Krogvold (2000) Det hvite hus. Byggehistorien til Kringkastinghuset på Marienlyst (Oslo)