New Norwegian architecture projects with building news and architectural images, plus architects background. Norway building news from across this Scandinavian country.
Discover interesting projects in this Nordic country, mostly from the capital Oslo. e-architect choose what we consider to be the most interesting architectural projects and post frequently.
The website archives features a selection of the major Norwegian properties. Similarly, find details about designers in this large Scandinavian country.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Together Arkitema Architects, Arkitema/ELN Architects and AART architects have designed Sykehuset Østfold Kalnes in Sarpsborg south of Oslo.
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.
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.