Save the Y

Together with representatives from Henie Onstad Art Center, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and the Save the Y action group, Gisle representing the Norwegian Architects' Association, met with Minister of Local Government and Modernization Monica Mæland.
She was handed the signatures of 80 prominent art and cultural institutions, as well as approximately 22,000 individual signatures - it is still possible to sign the petition HERE.

Photos from the manifestation for Y-blokka in Tromsø a few weeks ago.

DAM architectural book award

Layered Landscapes Lofoten – understanding of complexity, otherness and change is shortlisted for the DAM Architectural Book Award 2019!
The public award-giving ceremony will take place Wednesday, October 16 at 19:30 at the library of Deutsches Architekturmuseum (Hedderichstraße 108-110)⁠⠀
All the awarded books are exhibited at the Frankfurt Book Fair Hall 4.1, Centre for Photography and illustration.

"The Frankfurt Book Fair and Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) are presenting the jointly initiated international DAM Architectural Book Award for the eleventh time.

The prize, unique in its kind and now highly regarded, honours the best architectural books of a year. 100 architectural and art book publishers from all over the world accepted the joint invitation to participate. A jury made up of external experts and representatives of DAM met to select the year's ten best architectural books from 227 entries. They based their decision on criteria such as design, content, quality of material and finishing, innovation, and topicality.

The wide range of topics and the high standard of the entries presented the jury with an enormous challenge. For this reason the jurors once again decided not only to pick ten prize winners, but also to select a further ten entries for the Shortlist of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2019."

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Layered Landscapes Lofoten @ Books on Norway @ Guest of Honour Pavilion @ Frankfurter Buchmesse

Layered Landscapes Lofoten is selected to be part of the exhibition Books on Norway in the Guest of Honour pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Tromsø Waterfront Laboratory

Looking forward to start the work with the Tromsø Waterfront Laboratory tomorrow together with Berit Steenstrup and:
STATEX
Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir
Michael Johansson
Endboss

La Y stå!

Today we gather outside Tromsø kunstforening at 16.30 to mark our support for the preservation of Y-blokka - everybody is welcome to join us!

More info about the event here, and Støtteaksjon for å bevare Y-blokka here.

Poster by Saralinn Hembre Singstad, mandag studio - building by Erling Viksjø, murals by Pablo Picasso and Carl Nesjar.