Debating Øresund

Øresundsvisioner 2040 - the exhibition - with the 15 projects from part 2 of the competition will be shown at Gamle Dok / DAC until May 4. We will also participate in debates taking place at DAC April 16 (open) and 21 (with the region's mayors).

(Exhibition pics by Esben Knudsen)

mosaïc::media

To read what Bladet Tromsø, Nordlys and Dagens Næringsliv write about us winning Øresundsvisioner click on the articles, left and below.
Or see RealDania, byplanlab (where you, with a bit of patience, can down-load our project), arkitektnytt, Tromsø's web-TV.
We will update you on the project, our excellent collaborators, the Copenhagen-trip and the continuation - with images, links etc very soon!

mosaïc::team

A big thank you to the Mosaïc::Team of experts!
Some of you were able to join us for a lunch and great discussions at excellent noma in København, we were really happy to meet you - we hope to see the rest of you really soon:
Espen Røyseland & Øystein Rø, architects, 0047
Peter Sylwan, journalist
Reinhold Fieler & Lars-Henrik Larsen, aqua culture researchers, Akvaplan-niva
Johannes Molander Pedersen, Morten Rask Gregersen and Tue Kappel, architects, NORD
Peter Löwendahl-Nyrén, journalist
Bengt Olle Nilsson, photographer Österlenbild
Nils Mjaaland, architect/photographer, blå arkitektur landskap
Thomas Barfoed Randrup, prof. Park Management & Urban Greening, Skov & Landskab
Carola Wingren, landscape architect and professor, SLU
Jørgen Primdahl, prof. landscape planning, Skov & Landskab
Odd Are Berkaak, prof. social antropology, Oslo University
Åsa Sonjasdotter, artist and professor, Tromsø Art Academy

+ a long list of important and generous discussion partners: Maike Knol, Roy T. Eriksen, Svein Jentoft, Tom Nielsen, Rikke Munck, Trine Holm, Ola Bettum...

1st prize - Øresundsvisioner 2040!

We have been awarded 1st prize in the competition arranged by RealDania about ideas for the future in the Øresund region! The project is a collaboration with Dahl&Uhre, and the concept MOSAÏC::REGION includes inviting a broad panel of guest experts who all did an extraordinary job putting their expertise into the project. On the picture we've just received the prize at Gamle Dok / DAC in Copenhagen, today.... ..more info soon..

it's alive!

Kystens Hus / new Domus is in the newspapers again, or watch it on nordlys TV! - being commented by an enthusiastic mayor, Arild Hausberg..





(In the same newspaper you can also read an intelligent comment on urban planning in Tromsø written by Lars Echroll.)

urban mountain

The Karl Johan project takes form and from the opposite sidewalk you have a nice view of.. the Fløya mountain, reflected into busy Grønnegata.

aitim #250

We just received the spanish magazine Aitim #250 where three spreads treat
70°N projects; Torvdalshalsen, Grunnfør and Gårdsvatn.

arctic visit

We got a visit from Mike Jacobs and students from Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York. They are travelling the high north researching the realities of the arctic; climate changes, wildlife protection, oil and gass reserves, territorial claims.. We hope that you'll have a nice stay in Tromsø, and that you'll come up with creative solutions in your projects!

Trondheim sessions

Gisle has spent the week in Trondheim assessing diplomas again.

home alone - together

The great art students with friends invited to this extraordinary hjemme alene party this week-end. We say thank you for working hard for art, and for the café interior - perfect for deep architecture discussions!

love, love, love

Happy people filled the old ice cellar, Kjeller5, as the first Pecha Kucha Night Tromsø ever took place. Beautiful, creative presentors gave their best, music and ambiance was added by the mighty mega benoni, beer war supplied by Mack and Ølhallen and the crowd added a lot of positivity and enthusiasm to it - a success we believe!
This was made possible by a wonderful collaboration with the tank heroes, lovely Mack people, Dr M of course, sweet PKN + KDa Tokyo collaborators, Luxo and a bunch of other supportive great people.
See you all soon again!



(PS: don't forget tonight's opening at Hjemme Alene!)

Tonight it is

Let's go pecha kucha tonight!

20x20 book, soon in Tromsø!

The beautiful 20x20 Pecha Kucha book, edited and published by the Pecha Kucha inventors Klein Dytham architecture, will be available and buyable at Pecha Kucha Night #1, this thursday.

Detour à Bruxelles

The detour continues and opens February 29 in Brussels, Tour & Taxis..

PKN#1 - the presenters!

We are proud to announce the presenters at Pecha Kucha Night Tromsø #1:

Christian Ødegård - Mack - beer brewer
Paul H Amble + Sondre Sommerfelt Svendsen - PKN Oslo organizers
Kjerstin Uhre - Dahl&Uhre arkitekter - architect
Daniel Andersson - GRUS - editor in chief
Lise M Johnsen - Bess Retro - redesigner
Annette Tunheim Jakobsen - Insomnia - festival director
Hans Christian Øren + Christina Magnussen – Oh Yeah Studio designers
Berit Steenstrup - Aarhus School of Architecture/70°N arkitektur - architect
Sidsel Pape - performance artist/dance researcher
Kåre + Line + Geir + Ane Elene - Hjemme Alene - artist collective/art(y) festival
DJ: Bob Benoni

March 6 at 19.30 the doors will open at Kjeller5, øvre Mack, Storgata sør - and the first Pecha Kucha in Tromsø will take place!

The number of tickets is limited - make a reservation. Remaining tickets will be sold at the entrance.

Pecha Kucha Night Tromsø is arranged by tank design and 70°N in collaboration with Mack. PKN #1 is sponsored by Luxo.

NAF#1

This year's first lecture at the Architects' Association takes place at Café Eka, Tromsø Kunstforening, Thursday 21 February at 19.00. Geir Haaversen from a-lab will show projects and tell about the office.

Young House

In the just published german book on young architects YOUNG HOUSE magazin our projects in Strandkanten, Tromsø, and Lofoten are presented in articles by Dr Reinhart Wustlich.

Pecha Kucha Tromsø

In one month from now, March 6, the first Pecha Kucha Night in Tromsø will take place!

Pecha Kucha has spread globally from Tokyo where it was first launched by Klein Dytham architecture as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.

The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system where each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

To know more about it see www.pecha-kucha.org (where you can sign up to receive news, or to do a presentation at one PKN), order the beautiful 20x20 book, or win it in today's competition at dezeen - or simply join us at Kjeller5 Thursday March 6 and find out!

A local platform for a world of creativity!

Keep updated at www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/tromso.

new staff, new stuff

Thomas Hoss has joined us - welcome! He will be working at the office this spring, before going back to Hamburg to finish his diploma. As a start he spent some hours on our material research project..

to think is to experiment..

In today's Nordlys a chronical by Gisle is published. He's discussing the year of urbanism, ByÅr05, with the research work of Pløger, Hillier and Deleuze as a starting point - enjoy!

testing-testing

..you will soon see more of this 1:1 experience..

Arty thursday

Thursday again and open class at the Tromsø Art Academy again: Ánde Somby tells about the yoik as expression and its connection to sami aesthetics - today at 15.00.
Thursday also means a new vernissage at 0047, #3 that is in their 'rykk tilbake til start!' series.

Next Thursday, February 7 at 15.00, visitors from Bergen National Academy in Fine Art will lecture at Open Class: Professor Jeremy Welsh and MA students Toril Johannessen and Jet Pascua.

Relational Objects

Gisle just got back from Bergen and the final critique on the master course he's been responsible for together with professor Arild Wåge, artist Trudi Jaeger and landscape architect Anouk Vogel - Relational Objects.

Rykk tilbake!

The latest project by the génial 0047: one exhibition, six vernissages and 92 artists = Rykk tilbake til start!
Opening reception #2: Thursday January 24, 19h.

We're Alive, Let's Meet!

Emma Hedditch is lecturing at this week's open class at the Art Academy in Tromsø, Thursday 24.01, 15.00.
Emma Hedditch is an artist and writer who lives in London. She will be presenting some of her past and present projects whilst interpreting the ideas, process, motivation and experience of making these projects over time.
Alle er velkommen!/Open for all!
Kunstakademiet i Tromsø/Tromsø Academy of Fine Art, Strandveien 8 (Indgang Nord/Northern enterance)

Detour à Paris

The detour exhibition has now left Caen for Paris and Galerie d'Architecture. The opening will be January 26 and the exhibition will stay a month in Paris before moving on to Brussels and Stockholm..

Sun soon

The first of the two Brinken Terrasse buildings will soon be finished, and next week the sun will appear above the horizon..

Bloggofriends!

Dahl & Uhre arkitekter released their blog today!

ecobox

Together with Dahl&Uhre arkitekter and Grønn Hverdag we have spent the last two days with Maisey and her ecobox course - one step closer to sustainability in buildings and energy integrated design..!

Løskanonen

Løskanonen var 70°N:s julekalender 2007. Frem mot jul presenterte vi i samarbeid med et fremstående og kompetent utvalg hver dag den norske arkitekturens løskanon. Vi takker alle involverte og engasjerte!

The 70°N Advent Calendar 2007 was brought to you in collaboration with a highly skilled and talented jury. A big thank you to all the involved!

Alle løskanoner / complete list:
24.december: Cretto, Gibellina, Sicilia, av Alberto Burri, byen ødelagt av jordskjelv (1968), dekket av hvit betong (ca 1985). Foreslått av Anniken Romuld, med motiveringen "synliggjøring ved tildekking"
(eller beste innpakning)

23.december: Kirklandet kirke, Kristiansund, av Odd Østby, 1965. Foreslått av Arild Wåge, BAS / Nordplan, med motiveringen "Livene våre bygges for det meste på kortvarige sterke opplevingar…. Møte med Odd Østbys kirke i Kristiansund er ein av desse……"

22.december: Untitled, Ace Gallery Los Angeles, 2005, foreslått av Æsa Björk Thorsteinsdóttir med motiveringen "Tara Donovan er mester i forvandlingen av hverdagslige objekter til ren poesi. En plastikk-kopp, et gummistrikk eller ei sikkerhetsnål blir aldri det samme."

21.december: Steinbu, Vannøya, Troms, forslått av Kjeld Nash med motiveringen "...en generøs invitasjon til ettertanke..."

20.december: Trapp/utsiktsplattform, Ringve botaniske hage. Bygget av studenter i kurset 1-2-tre ved NTNU, fakultet for arkitektur og billedkunst, i regi av Knut Einar Larsen, ferdig tidlig om morgonen lørdag 15.12.07. Foreslått av Fredrik Shetelig med motiveringen "Vi er stolte av studentene våre"

19.december: Ishavskatedralen (Tromsdalen kirke) av Jan Inge Hovig, 1965. Foreslått av Kjerstin Uhre, Dahl&Uhre, med motiveringen "Strålende modernisme. Synliggjør landskapsrommets særtrekk..."

18.december: Petter Dass museum, Gildeskål, av Snøhetta 2007. Foreslått av Morten Skandfer med motiveringen "...en groundscraper i nord".

17.december: Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, av Mies van der Rohe, 1968. Foreslått av Erling Steenstrup med motiveringen "gåsehud".

16.december: Eiksmarka senter i Bærum, 1953, av Odd Gengenbach. Foreslått av Cecilia Stokkeland, utflukt, med motiveringen "en julehilsen fra suburbia..."

15.december: National Library of Belarus, Minsk, av M.Vinogradov & V.Kramarenko, 1992. Foreslått av Johan Gustavsen med motiveringen "first believe it, then do it".

14.december: Stegastein utsiktspunkt av Tommie Wilhelmsen og Todd Saunders, 2006, foreslått av Sigrid Bjørkum, siggelicious, med motiveringen "...å være såpass langt ute på kanten er fucking faboulous"

13.december: Gjenreisningshuset foreslått av Ole Henrik Einejord, Code, med motiveringen "funksjonalisme ikke bare i bygg, men også i bygningsmiljø..."

12.december: Royal Garden Hotell, Trondheim, av P. Knutsen, S Clausen, L. Fasting og P. Kalmar Lund, 1984. Foreslått av Øystein Rø, 0047, med motiveringen "...som 10-åring var bygget skjellsettende (...) Jeg tror bygget var grunnen til at jeg ble arkitekt."

11.december: Tanatorio de León, Barcelona, av BAAS architects, 2000. Foreslått av Silvie Le Muzic med motiveringen "...hele livssyklusen om man vil, formet i snittet himmel / jord..."

10.december: Alfheim Svømmehall, Tromsø, av Jan Inge Hovig, 1965. Foreslått av Bjørn Viggo Ottem, tank design, med motiveringen "Vil overleve alt!"

9.december: Musée du Quai Branly av Jean Nouvel, 2006, foreslått av Marianne Skjulhaug, BAS, med motiveringen "...definisjonen av kvartalet som form er forfriskende ny. Himmelen får plass og langs fortauet kan du et øyeblikk stryke håndflaten langs en myk, grønn vegg selv om du bare passerer".

8.december: Ingierstrand bad av Eyvind Moestue og Ole Lind Schistad, 1934. Foreslått av Kurt Singstad, MAD, med motiveringen "nådeløst moderne og nyskapende i sin samtid - men likevel ikke eksklusivt eller ekskluderende anlegg".

7.december: "untitled", Vågan, av Dan Graham (Skulpturlandskap Nordland), foreslått av Berit Steenstrup med motiveringen "fantastisk flott - i grenselandet mellom akitektur og kunst".

6.december: Fiskeværet i Nyksund, foreslått av Håkon Matre Aasarød, Fantastic Norway, med motiveringen "tider skal komme / tider skal henrulle"

5.december: Grønnegata 21-23, Tromsø, av blå strek arkitekter, 1986. Foreslått av Gisle Løkken med motiveringen "best infill".

2008..

.. just started. We will continue our reports to you about:

Gott Nytt År!

Gott Nytt År / Bonne Année / Happy New Year / Gutes Neues Jahr / Feliz Año Nuevo 2008!









(under the northern light at new year's night)

God Jul from 70°N

Merry / Feliz / God / Jouyeux Christmas / Navidad / Jul / Noël

aller/retour

We got a visit from extraordinary Yasmín, directly from México and graduation - congratulations miss Architect! After some days in Tromsø, with all kinds of weather, traditional food and great conversations she left together with Federico for a european tour. Thank you both for this time and see you soon!

pepparkakebak

We got stung by the decoration bee and felt the urge to get all the silver balls, candy stars and glazing available attached to our pepparkakor...

Said about Norway..

In today's Dagbladet Søndag international design and architecture experts tell what they think about the norwegian development in these areas in an international context. Under a picture of Torvdalshalsen Mark Isitt, formerly Forum AID, applauds the National Tourist Routes. The article overall shows an enthusiasm for norwegian architecture, mentioning also Fantastic Norway, Jensen & Skodvin, Snøhetta, 3RW, Space Group, Norway Says, Tommie Wilhelmsen and Todd Saunders.

Lucia at 70°N

This year's christmas dinner included thai food and champagne, and friends and family of course..

hyperbolic paraboloid art

The Art Academy of Tromsø invited to a Christmas exhibition vernissage today. They had invaded / adopted / parasited the great Tromsø library.. see more in slide show 1 and 2.

'scape

In the November issue of 'scape magazine Tromsø is one of the case studies under the title "Melting ice puts arctic city Tromsø on the map". The article by Joren Jacobs is based on interviews with Jarle Aarbakke (rector at the Tromsø University), Jan Gunnar Winther (director of the Norwegian Polar Institute) and Knut Eirik Dahl: "If you look at the most recent statistics from the Polar Institute, but certainly also from the United Nations, you will conclude that the icy Arctic landscape that shaped and created Tromsø now disappears. The city is literally relocated."

Brinkvegen Games

We celebrated the very good kindergarten article ("the best of the newest kindergartens") by Bente Bakken (with, of course, Ivan Brodey's beautiful photos) in today's Dagbladet Søndag with Brinkvegen Games - several inventive winter sports executed by skilled and fearless young athletes encouraged by an enthusiastic crowd..