Breiavatnet Lanterna Stavanger Building

Breiavatnet Lanterna Stavanger Building

Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects with SJ Arkitekter. This dynamic winning design aims to create a new benchmark for a sustainable and creative work environment. It includes a new 101m-high tower containing 18,000 sqm of highly flexible space for offices, restaurants, exhibitions and conferences. Ground and top floors will open to the public.

Norwegian Mountaineering Center Åndalsnes

Norwegian Mountaineering Center

Design: Reiulf Ramstad Architects. This building is anchored in an innovative interpretation of nature’s fantastic dimensions and the dramatic experience of mountaineering. The design of the building is based on its function as a mountaineering center and gathering place for both locals and visitors.

Split View Mountain Lodge in Havsdalen, Buskerud

Split View Mountain Lodge

Design: Reiulf Ramstad Architects. This Norwegian holiday home has a clean-cut expression. The main wing houses mainly bedrooms and divides into two branches. The shift in program and different levels lets the building adapt to the slope.

Deg 42 Office Building, Barcode, Oslo

Deg 42 Office Building

Design: a-lab Architects. ‘The Wedge’ is a small high-rise and an untraditional low-energy office building, tailor-made for small and innovative firms: retail on ground level, open office floors for co-working, and a communal restaurant on top.

Drøbak Architecture Competition Frogn

Drøbak

Norwegian Architecture Competition – architects shortlist news: Snøhetta, Haptic, Niels Torp, Jarmund Vigsnæs and Stein Halvorsen. Run by Frogn kommune, the 11,000sqm project has to achieve Passivhaus levels of energy performance.

k.21 Skardsøya, Møre og Romsdal, Norway

k.21 Skardsøya

Design: TYIN Architects. The cottage holds a special place in contemporary Norwegian culture. A few generations back the majority of the Norwegian people made a living from farming, fishing or lumbering, trades which afforded closeness with nature.

River Glomma Farmhouse in Sellebakk

River Glomma Farmhouse

Architect: LINK architects. The Lersch family bought the dilapidated farmhouse shortly after the millennium and were keen to preserve the historic building, intending to restore one of the last historic farmsteads, prominent in the area in the early 1900s.

Social Housing in Bergen: Møllendal Homes

Social Housing in Bergen

Design: Rabatanalab. This project is located in an industrial area, inaccessible and unsuited for public use so making a fracture between two parts of Bergen. It aims to regenerate the area into an attractive and active waterfront neighbourhood.

Oslo Cancer Cluster Innovation Park

OCCI

Design: Dark Arkitekter. In Norway there is an old tradition of combining high-schools with the opportunity to train for a career as an athlete. The OCCI park aims to do the same with students in scientific fields.

Cruise Terminal at a Fjord, Norway

Cruise Terminal at a Fjord

Design: Francisco Rocha, Architect – “Due to the lack of conditions for the cruises in the valley and the increase of tourists the quality of living in the area seems to be drastically declining.”

Cabin Stavern in Larvik, Norway Property

Cabin Stavern

Architect: Lund Hagem Architects. The lower level is without a sea view, but protected from the winds. Restrictions on the site included a cabin ad two rock levels: the zigzag shaped summerhouse connects the rock formations.

Cabin Holdeskaret Hemsedal, Norway

Winter Cabin

Design: Lund Hagem Architects. Cabin Holdeskaret is a private winter retreat located in the mountainous district of Hemsedal. The cabin is situated right at the tree-line of the mountains, overlooking sweeping vistas in all directions.

New Church Building in Våler, Hedmark county

New Church Building

Design: Conm + Kallesø. When seen from outside the church building rises in one continual profile from south to north. The outside of the hole church building is cladded with thin local pine trunks on all facades.

Room for Deeper Studies in Norway

Room for Deeper Studies

Architects: TYIN Architects

The Norwegian composer and musician, Håvard Lund has embarked upon an innovative project to create an artist’s retreat on Northern Norway’s beautiful and dramatic coastline.

Eureka Kvarteret Masterplan in Oslo

Eureka Kvarteret Masterplan

Architects schmidt hammer lassen wins international competition to design a 87,000 sqm masterplan in the area of Skøyen in central Oslo. Eureka Kvarteret will become a unifying urban development icon.

Open House City Hall in Sandnes

Open House City Hall

Design: KAMJZ. The base for the design was the desire to create a free unrestricted access to knowledge and information, as well as a collaborative and cooperative management and decision making process with emphasis on the right to see the operations and activities of government at work.