Nordhafen

Bauwelt 5 / 2009 + Wettbewerbe Aktuell 3 / 2009

Nordhavnen backyard

The blogging bakgård people are working on a very interesting project:
We have a new semester project at school. Our site is situated at Nordhavnen in Copenhagen, Denmark. 70°N and Dahl & Uhre won the 1st prize in Nordhavnen Open International Ideas Competition. In their winning proposal our teacher gave us three plots to choose from.

(They are more diligent bloggers than us so you have to scroll down a bit to find the post.. but are they working as hard on Nordhavnen as we are? We're eager to see the result..!)

Emerging Architecture Talks

Gisle has left for London to give a lecture at RIBA. That is if he manages to get there, yesterday almost no flights took off from Tromsø or landed in London - due to the snow..
So, hopefully, it'll be possible to discuss Emerging Architecture with Gisle and Junya Ishigami at 6.30 tonight, RIBA 66 Portland Place.

new news

Arkitektnytt with new format, lay-out, paper and design arrived today - and we like it.
This issue presents månedens bilde, architecture talks with Jonas Gahr Støre, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Jan Carlsen's article on our Nordhavnen project.

last week: Dancing Obama - this week: Detour Norway

The Detour exhibition has now reached the National Building Museum in Washington where parts of the Obama inaugural festivities took place. Detour showcases projects from National Tourist Routes, including our bird watching towers, rest area and bikers' refuge (as on photo above). The exhibition has already traveled Europe with stops in: Oslo, Berlin, Caen, Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, Bologna and Bratislava.

TIFF <3 XBO

The xbo did some guest starring during Tromsø International Film Festival. Partly packed in snow it served as a head quarter / info centre in the main square - it has since retired to a new and quieter site..

Kurant - turning their backs on Oslo

This is what you should do this Friday night in Tromsø (if you don't have our deadlines..):
Galleri Kurant presents works by Hanne Grieg Hermansen and Hans Borchgrevink Hansen, the exhibition opens tonight at 19.00, Søndre Tollbodgate 17. Kråksølv will give a concert at 21.00.

Have a nice, and sunny, week-end!
(yes, the sun has now returned to Tromsø after two months..)

cudmiodiorzeszki

..once again we can say: we don't understand, but it's beautiful..
and if what's written above makes sense to you, you can read about our kindergartens (we do understand the pics..) at cudmiodiorzeszki.

europaconcorsi

On europaconcorsi you can discover some of our projects, as well as a lot of other ones: competitions and realized.

citizen KBH

The three winning teams at 'borgermøde' in Nordhavnen, Magdalena and Thomas presented and discussed Excentral Park - Edge Dynamics.
photo: Lene Skytthe / By & Havn

pechapics

TIFF+PKN=<3

This is what we and about one hundred other people did last night: PechaKucha!
The article is from the Tromsø International Film Festival magazine.

Thanks to the generous presenters and DJ, the enthusiastic audience, all our important collaborators and the PechaKucha family!

Pics from yesterday's event are coming up soon..

edge dynamic weekend

In today's issue of danish Weekendavisen (#2 - Jan 9 2009) Peter Schultz Jørgensen writes, once again , an insightful and interesting article on ongoing processes and possibilities - with beautiful reflections on our Excentral Park - Edge Dynamics!

An extract: Arkitekter med bløde blyanter og computere kan skabe fantastiske billeder. Jo mere fantastiske, jo mere utopiske bliver de som fikseringer af en ukendt fremtid. De kommer til at virke blokerende og giver indtryk af en afklaring, der ikke er grundlag for. I stedet for at komprimere tiden i byplanen som dokument lader 70°N + D&U byplanen sig folde ud som en proces, der følger med tiden. Tiden bliver et grundstof i bydannelsen.

Freud & Architecture

This is great fun if you read danish.. a discussion with Freud on how architecture is presented - smiling women in dresses on bikes, happy kids, cute animals - with our Swan Lake pic from Nordhavnen as illustration: read Lehrskov!

(we've now produced the alternative pic: Crow Lake - old bald men with bikes, not so cute animals and unhappy kids)

PechaKucha Night #5

We are proud to announce the list of presenters at Pecha Kucha Night #5:

Christian Caspersen + Mireille Jacques // nuff
Nicholas Woche // artist // tromsø art academy/hff
Nina Erdahl // stylist // nostalgia
Mariane Cosserat // curator // seas
Rose Marie Steinsvik // architect // steinsvik arkitektkontor
Erik Smith Meyer // director/actor/producer
Stina Fagertun // author/storyteller // fantasibyrået cabaret avec
Erling Steenstrup // architect/counsellor cultural heritage // tromsø municipality
Tor S. Ditlefsen + Morten Johansen // light designers
Enrique Molina Campos + Francisco Puga Ortiz // architects
Oddgeir Sølvfæstersen // tromsø living
DJ Bendiks

January 13 at 19.30 the doors will open at Kjeller5 (øvre Mack, Storgata sør) - and the fifth Pecha Kucha in Tromsø will take place!

The number of tickets is limited, please make a reservation here.

Pecha Kucha Night Tromsø is arranged by tank design and 70°N arkitektur in collaboration with Mack.
Devised and shared by Klein Dytham architecture, supported by Autodesk.

azul

Portugese House Traders magazine presents Strandkanten with Yngve's amazing pics.

..and this is what Strandkanten looked like this snowy tuesday..

Army of Mothers

Message from Femme Digitale at armyofmothers.

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.

TaTLIN

Strandkanten is on the cover of the December issue of russian magazine TaTLIN. Once again we can say 'we dont understand but it's beautiful':
В журнале можно найти свежие проекты от японца Джуниа Ишигами, норвежцев 70°N arkitektur

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.

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.

#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, København), Tandi Reason Dahl (D&U), Berit Steenstrup (70°N), missing on this pic: Kjerstin Uhre (D&U).
(photo: By & Havn/Lene Skytthe)

1000xLA

Another heavy book arrived today: 1000 X Landscape Architecture..

sugar, spice..

.. and everything nice - one of many great works shown by the art students this week-end..

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!

'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!

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..!)

London calling

We're in London to receive the AR award at RIBA, we'll tell you all about it when we get back..

Les Lotte! med flere..

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..

men alle presidentene...

Den som vil følge med i debatten om NALs fremtidige president/er kan gjøre det her. (hvor alle innlegg ligger klikkbare i høyrespalten)

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.

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.

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..

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.