design day care

In Forum AID 3.07 you can read about two 70°N kindergartens.

Ministral Inauguration

Our National Tourist Routes projects in Lofoten is officially opened in the presence of the minister Liv Signe Navarsete. A conference with participation from 70°N took place in Svolvær on Wednesday the 5th of September, and a round-trip to visit the projects was organized. At the opening a new book about the projects was released; Lofoten - langs tindeveggen i storhavet. The book contains new photos of our projects in Torvdalshalsen, Grunnfør, Gårdsvatn and Skjærpvatn.

House of Rock

Gisle on architecture politics, Tourist Routes and rock

Animated Domus

At a project presentation in presence of the Minister of Finance, Kristin Halvorsen, the Domus 3D animation was shown in public for the first time.
As allways when it comes to film-making, it is our friends at Rambøll Mapping that helped us.

Bästa Formen

Swedish television pays attention to the Tourist Routes project in the program Bästa Formen, friday august 31 and saturday september 1. Watch it on web-TV during the month of september, or read what Dagens Nyheter says about it.

This is what Sveriges Television says about the project:
"Norsk vägdesign. Trött på E4:ans bensinmackscafeterior och sövande landskap? Åk med Bästa formen till Norge, där pågår just nu världens i särklass mest spännande vägprojekt. De som har slingrat sig fram mellan de arkitektoniska sensationerna har svårt att hålla tillbaka sin entusiasm. Med nytänkande, design, arkitektur och några norska miljarder förvandlas fjällvärlden till ett paradis för alla som älskar att köra bil. Programledare: Staffan Bengtsson. "

Building in Brinkvegen

The Brinkvegen block is growing, the first inhabitants will move in around christmas, which is great since the terraces are perfect for that new years party..

Birthday in Brinkvegen

Gisle's birthday was celebrated on the terrace with lots of friends, shrimps and wine..

Petraparty

The summer was celebrated with a barbecue party at Petra's terrace saturday. Great company, excellent food and fantastic summer!

Borderland of energy..

Björn Lindahl writes an article about Northern Norway, in swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet... about the new future of the north, the gass and oil, the climate changes in the arctic, the russian relations, the swedish ministers visiting - and about Strandkanten as 'futuristic architecture', illustrated by our tilted blocks..

Workshop at kindergartens

70°N held a workshop with the employees at the kindergartens to tell about the ideas behind the playing walls, and to explore new ones..

Fokus;Nord

For the 2007 NAF symposium Fokus;Nord we invited young architects to present their projects, ideas and visions for the arctic: Siri Lundestad, Aud Stine Askje, Sunniva Rosenberg, Marit Myraker, Øystein Rø (0047), Hans Jørgen Wetlesen (transborderkirkenes), Celia Glanfield, Andreas Koppen, Inês Almeida, Ida Winge Andersen, Eva Nordgård, Sigrid Bjørkum (siggelicious), Constantin Boincean, Håkon Matre Aaserød (fantastic norway), Erik Stenman. Invited to participate and lead the discussion are Bjørn Braaten, NTNU Trondheim, and Ana Betancour from KTH and the Architecture Museum in Stockholm. The week-end of 8-9 june all these young, talented, interesting and really nice architects presented different project with different approaches to the northern context, that was commented by Bjørn Braaten and Ana Betancour, and the audience. At the end of the day we had an interesting conversation and open discussion about the role/s of the architect. A discussion that continued during the dinner and party (with a soundtrack served by DJs Belle and Donatella ), under the midnight sun.. An absolutely giving event for many of us!

Fjellvegen inauguration

The kindergarten at Fjellvegen is now officially inaugurated, with kids, politicians, clowns, festivities and this beautiful cake!

Photographing with Ivan

Ivan Brodey came to Tromsø to photograph some of our projects as the kindergartens, Strandkanten and K1. The work included some roof tops to climb, some kids to keep cooperative and a boat ride. It was also really nice, interesting and learning to revisit the projects together with Ivan and his camera.

København

For a spring week-end some of us went to Copenhagen, in the slide-show you can see projects by Dorte Mandrup, Plot, Olafur Eliasson, Lundgaard & Tranberg, Jean Nouvel and Zaha Hadid's extension to Ordrupgaard.

Finishing it!

Finn, Anniken, Agnes and Magdalena did some bricolage with the flannelographs and more to get the kindergartens' playing walls finished, sometimes you have to get some glue on your hands to have it as it should be..

Debating Tromsø

If you read norwegian and are interested in the planning processes and future urbanism of Tromsø you can read the article written by Gisle and Magdalena, published in the newspaper Nordlys April 14. And then you can do as Johan Gustavsen: - continue the debate..

Festinha!

As the snowstorms of April reached Tromsø 70°N threw a Brazil party. We are happy to share our enthusiasm for brazilian architecture, music, fruits and drinks with family and friends. Boas vindas!

Olympic expectations

Read Jan Carlsen's interview with Gisle in Arkitektnytt.

Paris exhibition

70°N is represented with the Europan7 runner-up project at the exhibition 'Génération Europan' at Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris.

Back from Brazil

Arctic went capricornical but now we are back at the office after some wonderful days in Brazil. First in São Paulo with MASP and SESC Pompei of Lina Bo Bardi; Copan, Memorial da América Latina and Parque do Ibirapuera of Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida de Niemeyer Soares; MuBE of Paulo Mendes da Rocha and the beautiful Faculdade de Arquitetura of João Batista Vilanova Artigas. And cachaça tasting with Angelo Bucci at his office.. Then Rio with continuous cultural, architectural, musical, culinary and sunny experiences; a visit to Angelo Bucci's extraordinary villa in Santa Teresa, watching football at the impressive Maracanã Stadium, açai at Ipanema beach and sambadancing late at night at Centro Cultural Carioca or Rio Scenarium - to mention a few.

Oulu all stars

30 visiting architecture students from Oulu were squeezed into the XBO to hear about our work.

2018

The city of Tromsø wants to apply for the Winter Olympics in 2018. The first step was to deliver the national application to the board of the Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports, February 19 2007. A team of planners, architects, sports- and olympic games experts and graphists has been working to find the best solutions for the arenas, and to illustrate, with images and films, the games extraordinaire this could be!

melting ice..

Our friends and collegues of Dahl&Uhre are interviewed by Ingerid Helsing Almaas over 11 pages in Byggekunst #1 2007, on their work here in Tromsø and their ideas on the Arctic Cities exhibition. Cover illustrated with Anders Wilhelmson's idea for the Fehn Pavillion, inside illustrated with project photos together with graphics and images we developed together for the Venice Biennale and the year of urban development (Byutviklingens År).

Torvdalshalsen in Topos

The project in Torvdalshalsen is being presented in Topos #57 2006.

Arctic Cities in Stockholm

The Arctic Cities exhibition has now travelled from Venice to the Architecture Museum in Stockholm where it will be shown until the end of January 2007, a chance to see it for those who weren't at the Biennale this autumn. New Domus and Strandkanten are some of the projects exhibited.

Human Nature

The Skarsfjord cabin is presented as one of the examples of environmentally sustainable cabins and cottages in the book Hytter og miljø written by Chris Butters, Anne Mette Raaholt and Kim Skaara.
At the release conference the escalating cabin building was discussed and a speech was given by the former Minster of Environment, Helen Bjørnøy.

Feliz Navidad!

70°N arkitektur wish everybody a (musical) Feliz Navidad 2006!

A10 #12

In magazine A10 #12 (november 2006) Sissil Morseth Gromholt writes about the National Tourist Routes.

Fiesta!

...quesadillas, tortillas, nopalitos, frijoles refritos, mole, salsa, chili-sushi - we learned a lot about food in México (thanks to Yasmìn and Federico!) and wanted to share all that with our friends, some of it you can see on this slide show..

Lofoten film

For the Detour / Omveg exhibition a film was produced by Nils Ljunggren and shot by Gösta Reiland for the Norwegian Public Roads Administration
Here you can see ornitologs, bikers and pic-nic people use our projects in Lofoten Islands.

¡México!

70°N was invited to the Arquinexo conference in Monterrey, Mexico. The stay was a great experience in all ways; architecturewise, foodwise, partywise, peoplewise.. We got the opportunity to talk with interesting people at the architecture school and with the other lecturers; Brian White and Michel Weenick of Architecture W, Benjamin and Chris of Aranda & Lasch, Angelo Bucci of spbr and Miguel Robles Duran and last but not least we got to know these wonderful architecure students, Yasmìn and Federico - thank you for your hospitality, the music, life and architecture talks and - of course - the great introduction to mexican cuisine!
(Do you want to see a little bit more of Mexico? -click at the image..)

White Adventures

For the norwegian 100 years of independence jubilee an exhibition was produced - Polar Norway. 70°N arkitektur created the design for the exhibition that was presented in two versions; one at the Tromsø Museum shown from early 2005 until late 2006, and one travelling exhibition that is now voyaging the world - from Murmansk, Russia to Savona, Italy and Washington..

Roads + Nature => Architecture

Our National Tourist Routes projects appear in Forum AID 3.06 together with projects of 3RW, Saunders + Wilhelmsen etc. Also others have discovered our projects...

Detour exhibition

The National Tourist Routes , with several projects by 70°N , are shown in an exhibition at DogA , Oslo, the autumn 2006. A beautiful catalogue was made for the exhibition, and there is also a slide show showing the space and scenography.

Storgata Western Façade

How many new squaremeters can Meierikvartalet take? Click on the image to see the meltdown animation..

Venezia visit

Some of us went to the 10th Venezia Architecture Biennale together with other people somehow connected to the exhibition; Kjerstin & Knut Eirik, the maire and other people from the municipality, journalists, tvibits and of course the Steenstrups!

Venezia Biennale

At the 10th Venezia Architecture Biennale Tromsø was exhibited together with Kiruna and Oulu under the name of Arctic Cities in Sverre Fehn's pavillion. 70°N exhibited several projects and was also part of the exhibition team, lead by Knut Eirik Dahl. In addition to the exhibition the web site northerngateway has been developed, as an extended, in-depth version where articles, photos, films, architecture projects and Tromsø-profiles are presented under the pressure of the melting ice..
(some pictures from our stay in Venezia can be seen as a slide-show..)

LAG

The performance LAG, is created by dancer Liv Hanne Haugen, musician Anja Kowalski and Anniken Romuld of 70°N. Lag can be seen at Verkstedet, Tromsø Kulturhus October 19-22 2006 and at les Bains::Connectives in Brussels January 26-27 2007.

Domus news

The proposal for the new domus buiding got a lot of media attention after being presented at a press conference. The model will now travel to Venezia to be part of the Arctic Cities exhibition for the 10th Biennale of Architecture.

Symposium 2006

For the 2006 NAF symposium we invited architects and others from all Scandinavia to talk on the theme of the new future for the northern areas. We were happy to hear really interesting and clever lectures from; Hans Kristian Amundsen editor in chief at Nordlys, Lars Bendrup of Transform, Catharina Gabrielsson, Lene Edvardsen of Husbanken, Anders Wilhelmson of Wilhelmson Arkitekter and Johannes Pedersen of NORD - Northern Office for Research and Design. The debate continued under the midnightsun..