In 2012 Space Group completed the refurbishment of the former industrial building designed by architects Ove Ekman and Einar Smith and erected from 1896 to 1899. This area along the Akers River was historically referred to as Ny York (New York) due to its explosive development in 1858. Today the area reflects a transformation towards a [...]
Space Group is nominated for ‘best hotels and resorts’ in Architizer A+ awards for their hotel Clarion Hotel and Congress Trondheim – opened April 2012. + Architect’s statement by Space Group THE CHOICE OF THE STARS Space Group is an internationally architecture office with offices in Oslo and Sao Paulo. Our favourite assignments are complex and challenging [...]
Arkitektgruppen Cubus is celebrating 40 years of practice in 2012, and have made this timelapse movie to show some of their work during the last 40 years. Arkitektgruppen Cubus AS is based in Bergen, Norway. One of the larger offices in western Norway with completed projects in around 20 towns/cities in Norway and in Denmark.
3XN recently has completed the Plassen Cultural Centre in Norway. The Norwegian city of Molde has just 25,000 inhabitants, but every July the biggest stars of jazz and about 100,000 jazz enthusiasts flock to the town’s world famous international jazz festival. In designing the city’s new cultural center, the challenge faced by 3XN was to create [...]
BUILDING a new headquarter for Luftfartstilsynet is a challenge in creating a place for an uprooted organization, transplanted from Oslo to Bodø, and in doing so, BUILDING a new office CULTURE. The site, a compact waterfront property, is hidden from its street address by the recently completed NAV building. Exploiting the one story difference between [...]
Elegance and conviviality merge under The Arch in Mandal, Norway Historic white wooden houses, charming narrow streets, a river running though the center and beach and forest nearby. The town of Mandal is the essence of southern Norwegian idyll. Danish practice, 3XN, has designed the town’s new cultural center, a project which required great sensitivity [...]
Gudmundur Jonsson Architects has recently completed a brand new modern Cabin, GJ-9 located at Bjergøy outside of Stavanger, Norway. + All images courtesy Gudmundur Jonsson Architects
RRA AT RIBA IN LONDON EXHIBITION OPENING APRIL 17TH – TILL JUNE 15TH 2012 (UK) Reiulf Ramstad Architects and Jensen Skodvin Architects will show separate exhibitions at RIBA, The Royal Institute of British Architects in London april-june 2012. Contemporary Norwegian Architecture Exhibition– “Landscape and Intervention” explores the work over the last 10 years, notably buildings [...]
An Open Ring in the Woods In commissioning the competition, the church of Våler chose for a seldomly witnessed step in church history, one that always comes with interesting results. Tapping on a source of collective creativity in modern architecture offers the chance to bring the development of church architecture to a new level. A [...]
In all places, contemporary architecture turns out to be an effective factor in tourism development. It enables to create a renewed visibility, which is rooted in modernity and which is able to attract a wider audience. It works as loss leader out of the content that it houses and it ensures a tourist attendance which [...]
Spire is Visiondivision‘s competition entry for a new church in the small town of Våler, Norway. The church in the small town of Våler in Norway burned down and a competition was held to build a new one. We joined the competition with the following entry. It is in the rural church that the people [...]
A few years ago, the inhabitants of Valer, an quiet Norwegian village not too far from Oslo, surrounded by forests and close to the Swedish border, watched how sadly their ancient wooden church was on fire and got totally destroyed. This is why at the end of 2011, they decided to invite architects from all [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
