..and this is what Strandkanten looked like this snowy tuesday..
2009/01/05
2009/01/04
Dette sterke ropet kom lørdag 3. januar kl. 13.50 fra Mads Gilbert, lege p.t. i Gaza:
De bombet det sentrale grønnsaksmarkedet i Gaza by for to timer siden. 80 skadde, 20 drept, alt kom hit til Shifa. Hades! Vi vasser i død, blod og amputater. Masse barn. Gravid kvinne. Jeg har aldri opplevd noe så fryktelig. Nå hører vi tanks. Fortell videre, send videre, rop det videre. Alt. GJØR NOE! GJØR MER! Vi lever i historieboka nå, alle!
Mads G.
2008/12/30
2008/12/22
Winning team!
Above: happy architects from 70°N arkitektur and Dahl & Uhre arkitekter + guest experts Marcus Horning, Atkins Global Malmö, and Thomas Barfoed Randrup, Skov & Land Copenhagen + one copenhaguenesque cyclist.
Below: one sentence from the jury:
The jury believes that the entry presents, through its
strategies, a genuinely new perception of a structure plan and
consequenty sets new horizons for urban development.
2008/12/20
windy walk
A morning walk in Malmö brought us to Västra Hamnen with the University building by Diener & Diener, the skate park designed by Stefan Hauser, Calatrava's Turning Torso, Monica Gora's bubble green house and the BO01 harbour walk - windy and wintery indeed.
Mosaïc in Byplan
The latest issue of danish planning magazine Byplan, 04/08, presents Øresundsvisioner 2040 and contains two articles by us; Mosaïc::Region - en dialog mellan handlingsrum and Öppenhet som metod.
2008/12/18
#1 in Nordhavnen!
Today we're in Copenhagen to receive first prize in the
Nordhavnen Open International Ideas Competition!
Read more in arkitektnytt, dagens næringsliv, aftenposten, dac, nordlys, tromsø..
Happy people from left to right: Knut Eirik Dahl (D&U),
Gisle Løkken (70°N),
Magdalena Haggärde (70°N),
Marcus Horning (Atkins Global, Malmö),
Joar Lillerust (70°N),
Thomas Barfoed Randrup (Skov & Land, K øbenhavn),
Tandi Reason Dahl (D&U),
Berit Steenstrup (70°N),
missing on this pic: Kjerstin Uhre (D&U).
(photo: By & Havn/Lene Skytthe)
2008/12/15
2008/12/14
sugar, spice..
.. and everything nice - one of many great works shown by the art students this week-end..
2008/12/12
cold candy
As a winter-treat we give you some amazingly cool and beautiful photos of
Strandkanten by
Yngve Olsen Sæbbe. Have a nice week-end!
2008/12/09
'difficult divinations'
The Art Academy students (year 1 and 2) invite to their end-of-the-year exhibition at Sjøgata 17.
The opening takes place this Friday, December 12 at 18.00, and the exhibition will be open Saturday and Sunday 12.00-18.00.
Go, go, go!
2008/12/01
Architectural Review
All the awarded projects are published in The Architectural Review December 2008 (#1342), you'll find Torvdalshalsen at page 58.
And this is what the jury said:
'Jury criteria included sensitivity to place and context, awareness of ecological implications, constructional ingenuity, sensitive understanding of materials, and inventiveness in handling space and light. Projects had to demonstrate a clear commitment to improving human life, rather than being preoccupied simply with architecture as art.'
and
'70°N arkitektur's rest area at Torvdalshalsen in the Norwegian Lofoten Islands embodies a gutsy Nordic simplicity of form and clarity of execution. (...)
The jury admired the project’s modest Nordic rigour that chimes instinctively with the harsh beauty of its setting.'
See also the article in arkitektnytt.
¡arRIBA!
We're back after some great days in London and the AR award festivities.
Our Torvdalshalsen will appear together with the other prize-winning projects in the December issue of Architectural Review, some of them really interesting. The projects will also be exhibited at RIBA until the end of February.
At RIBA we met (entre autres) Olav Kristoffersen from Brendeland & Kristoffersen who received an award for their Villa Nilsen/Borgen in Trondheim - congratulations!
More about the prize and the project in D2,
Nordlys, arkitektnytt..
New President!
Congratulations to NAL (Norwegian Architect Association) for a good choice of a new president:
Kjersti Nerseth!
And congratulations to Kjersti and her team! (with Gisle as vice president..!)
2008/11/27
London calling
We're in London to receive the AR award at RIBA, we'll tell you all about it when we get back..
2008/11/25
New Meaning
Åpen Klasse / Open Class
Alle er velkommen! / Open for all!
Kunstakademiet i Tromsø / Tromsø Academy of Fine Art
Strandveien 8 (Inngang Nord / Northern enterance)
Torsdag / Thursday 27.11, kl. 15.00
Ebba Moi:
Kan jeg starte bølgen? - presentasjon av et deltagende kunstprosjekt og relaterte prosjekter. Ebba Moi will present the project New Meaning.
..and within Ebba's work-shop at the Art Academy, Public Space and Alternative Strategies, Magdalena will teach Wednesday..
2008/11/21
Glacier talks
Today Gisle gives a lecture at Fehn's Glacier Museum in Fjærland, invited by the Sogn og Fjordane Architect Association for celebrating their 25th anniversary.
2008/11/11
Academy Talks
Tromsø Kunstakademi / Academy of Fine Arts is organizing a seminar on its physical framing and future and how this meets reality and political will. In this context several lectures will be given - by university people, artists, politicians..
Magdalena will participate with a talk on experiences from designing for an art school. The event is open for all and takes place Thursday 13th of November at the Art Academy, Strandvegen 8.
Saturday there will be a presentation of the 2nd year students' practice, 12.00-16.00 at the academy, and today 1st year students put the crisis in the centre.. somewhere in Tromsø..
If you haven't yet signed the students' petition for securing the future and continuation of the Art Academy do it here.
2008/11/10
new week new book
..or big week big book..
The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture arrived with our National Tourist Routes projects presented in it - as a few grams of the massive amount of kilos The best 21st century architecture from all over the world apparently consists of..
2008/11/06
out of office
Anniken gives a lecture at the national kindergarten conference in Bolkesjø, while some of us are in Oslo for the kick-off reception and seminar for the Deichmann/Munch competition.
Paris in the autumn
Small report from last week's Paris:
-yes, the right answer to the five clues was of course Villa Savoie, and the clues nothing less than Le Corbusier's cinq points d'une architecture nouvelle: the fundamental principles for the modern movement formulated in 1927.
-Jussieu Atrium and De La Ville Café by Périphériques
/ Louis Paillard
-St Blaise and great discussion and dinner with Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou of atelier d'architecture autogerée.
+ of course a lot more, as always in Paris (
cnac and
PdT are les indispensables), for instance an apparition in one of our great friend and artist Michel Lascault's vidéo-clips:
détourne mes yeux
2008/11/01
VS
5 clues concerning today's activities: pilotis; toits-jardins; plan libre; façade libre; fenêtre en longueur. Voilà, now you should know where we are!
2008/10/30
2008/10/29
2008/10/21
dream team!
Together with us in the Deichmann competition we have a great team - of course!:
Dahl&Uhre, architects
with:
Åsa Sonjasdotter, artist
Ellen Braae, landscape architect
Barlindhaug Consult, engineers
competing with:
Toyo Ito, Xaveer de Geyter,
Lacaton/Vassal,
Behnisch Architekten, Snøhetta and others..
We're in!
Good news just reached us: we're one of the chosen teams for the Munch/Deichmann competitions!
2008/10/20
le Quotidien des Architectes - part two: assessing
Gisle is back at the office after the diploma sessions at NTNU, together with fellow assessors Marianne Sætre, Christoffer Harlang and Olav Kristoffersen.
2008/10/15
Urban Picturesque
Interesting reflections crossing each other in our mail-box:
-first J is discussing how cities promote themselves with images of splendid nature more than with representations urban surroundings, Tromsø is not (at all..) an exception:
read it here (in norwegian).
-then artist Edward C Thomson invites to a presentation of a project called Borderline Picturesque, today wednesday at 19.00 at Kysten:
A picture of Northern Norway had been imprinted in my mind long before even considering working in Tromsø. Infinitely deep fjords and rugged snow covered mountains, a masculine landscape straight out of every mystery adventure I’d eagerly devoured throughout my childhood. The Scanorama in-flight magazine I flicked through on the flight to Tromsø confirmed this image, advocating it as a lifestyle. Seductive imagery of radian couples clad in high performance fabrics out challenging the wilderness. Framed by the rotating airport doors my first gaze upon Tromsø was met by an iridescent sunset carved into by a jagged mountainous silhouette.
How is the proximity to the spectacular mediated in this city situated at the border to the picturesque? Has its setting become a product, a myth, a lifestyle with physical effect embedded in the structure of the city? Co-operating with the Tromsø Art Academy I asked eleven students to respond to the image presented on a postcard from the city comparing it to their perceptions of its site of representation. The exhibition event ‘Borderline Picturesque’ brings together these responses.
..postcard realities or reality postcards..?
+ some more art:
Open Class: open for all! Tromsø Academy of Fine Art, Strandveien 8 (Northern enterance) Thursday 16.10, 15.00
Sille Storihle presents: Barselgrad, a project about spaces for meeting and exchange. For more info see: www.barselgrad.net and
www.bluss.net.
..and don't forget to support the Art Academy now!
2008/10/13
korean kover
ArchiWorld / InteriorWorld puts our kindergarten on the cover of their Culture & Education special issue #71. Inside there is a beautiful six-spread article - we really enjoy seeing someone treat our project and
Ivan's pics this well!
2008/10/12
Landskrona Library..
.. is presenting our Mosaïc::Region and the other finalists from the Øresundsvisioner 2040 competition - the exhibition opens Tuesday October 14.
2008/10/10
Magical Systems
Art
exhibition opening tonight at Tromsø Kunstforening:
Magical Systems; science, technology and art turned into mythical, absurd and fantastic pieces by the artists Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Kristoffer Myskja, Madeleine Park, Mai Hofstad Gunnes, Toril Johannessen, Siri Harr Steinvik, Fredrik Svensson.
In collaboration with
Insomnnia Dissmentado (Buenos Aires) performs; Dissmentado – a project from Ismael Pinkler and Maximo Graesse Bondino using field recordings put together into slow motion ambient house tracks.
2008/10/09
Pecha Kucha Love
Thanks to everyone who made last night at Kjeller5 great!
-the presenters who shared their touching, interesting, funny, poetic, important stories
-DJ Bendiks for the beat
-Mack and Ølhallen people for the location and the cold beer, their work, presence and incredible commitment
-the audience for their appreciating attention
-the Pecha Kucha team for everything!
-PKN/
KDa Tokyo for the support
Pics coming soon..!
2008/10/07
Thursday in Tromsø.. with Snøhetta, Yokoland, Teipu, A Leopard, Some Monkeys, Numerous Butterflies, Dozens of Peacocks and a Sublime Vista
Yes it is all happening Thursday, October 9 - only in Tromsø:
Snøhetta will give a lecture on creative processes and projects at Kommunestyresalen, Rådhuset (entrance by the cinema) at 18:30.
Yokoland and Teipu are some of the participating graphic designers at the design+music event organized by
tank, at 18.00 in Kjeller5.
Edward Clydesdale Thomson gives a lecture called *A Leopard, Some Monkeys, Numerous Butterflies, Dozens of Peacocks and a Sublime Vista* at the Art Academy at 15.00 - open for all!
..and as you all know Insomnia starts Thursday as well..!
2008/10/06
Cineplastic
The über-talented Berit Steenstrup creates beautiful things (also!) when she's not working with us.. together with Mette Jensen and Nora Aursand Iversen she's now signed this little piece of art: Cineplastic - enjoy!
(don't forget to turn the sound on)
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