meet the president

The NAL president Kjersti Nerseth is visiting Tromsø and NAF as part of her norwegian tour. The aims are to inform about and discuss the new architecture politics, also on a local level. Thursday June 18 at 19.00 everybody interested is welcome to meet her and fellow NAL representatives at Formannskapssalen, Tromsø rådhus.

the plot

One of our newest and smallest constructions is starting to pay off and today we could taste our first delicious radishes. The rucola and coriander are regularly incorporated in our meals and now we're just waiting for the dessert - strawberries!
See the debuts of our hotbed and its fellow allotment plots here - and post your own to the collection.

more winners

This week included a trip to Oslo for Magdalena, to attend the prize ceremony for Statens Byggeskikkpris.

Now we're off into the nature on this beautiful summer's day - a more detailed report will come soon..

Update: Statens byggeskikkpris was delivered Wednesday by the Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa.

The winning project is Preikestolen Fjellstue by Helen & Hard.

Honourable mentions to:
Ungdomspsykiatrisk avdeling, Førde by Arild Wåge, Nordplan.
Universet studentbarnehage, Tromsø by Steinsvik arkitektkontor
Hundsund grendesenter, Bærum by div.A arkitekter

Nominated projects were also:
Oslo International School by Jarmund/Vigsnæs arkitekter
Løvåshagen by ABO plan & arkitektur
Steinerskolen på Skjold by 3RW arkitekter

award winners

Yesterday's NAF event included the prize ceremony for Northern Norway Architecture Award. This year three awards were given:
- Undomshuset Straumanstua in Lofoten by Jarmund/Vigsnæs
- The rehabilitation of Hamningberg, Finnmark
- The Honour Award was given to Knut Eirik Dahl for his enduring efforts to increase understanding and raise the quality of our urban areas.

Congratulations to you all for well earned attention and appraisal!

Afterwards we were treated with a lecture by Erik Langdalen from LY arkitekter. He told us about some of their interesting and beautiful projects, and their collaboration with Steven Holl on the soon to open Hamsun Centre.

summer detour

The travelling Detour exhibition, showing the National Tourist Routes projects, opens today at Philadelphia Center for Architecture where it will stay during the summer before moving to New York in September.

LY @ NAF

The Architect Association of Northern Norway invites to a lecture by LY arkitekter this Friday June 5, 19.30 at Kinobaren, Tromsø Kino. Afterwards there will be snacks, drinks and discussions at the bar - welcome!

world in denmark - change

Reflective urbanism - experimenting openness is the title of the lecture to be given by Gisle and Knut Eirik at the World in Denmark conference, May 29 at DAC, Copenhagen.

From the program:
Change has become mantra: climate change, environmental, financial and political change. Change in nature and society has before resulted in change in the aesthetic language; as a sign of something upcoming or as a mirroring of something that has arrived. Is this the case in today’s urban space? Do we see and do we need new definition, new significance new use of the urban landscape and consequently a new aesthetic language in the urban space? Though the significance belongs to the large scale the signs often start in the small – in garden art and landscape architecture. The World in Denmark conference asks this question to landscape architects and their answers will take form as reflections and projects.

artac attac

While the second year students conclude this semester at the art academy with open seminars this Thursday and Friday at Tromsø Kunstforening, the first year students will open their summer exhibition at excellent kurant Tuesday June 2 at 18.00, the exhibition will be open until June 4.

travel & sea

Strandkanten is on the checkonsite guide to architecture and travel.

PKN#6!

We're planning for another PechaKucha Night before the summer!
Keep updated here - and join the info list.

west coast missions

This and next week some of us are travelling the west coasts of Scandinavia. Missions of different kinds will take us to Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim and Göteborg.. back at the office after Withsun.

spring press

In the air at the moment:
-the work with a proposal for architecture politics
-the europan 10 juries are announced
-a comment on the Innovative Integration conference in Arkitekten
-press on some of the projects nominated for Statens Byggeskikkpris: Universet kindergarten in Tromsø, Preikestolen Fjellstue in Jørpeland and Ungdomspsykiatrisk avdeling in Førde

unfolding homes - transporting dreams

The XBO appears in an article on mobile, ephemeral, minimal structures in swiss Tendance Déco #2 2009. The blue bubble is by Atelier Van Lieshout.

ambientes

Strandkanten is presented in chilean Revista Ambientes #68, have a look at page 95.

go see

As a member of the jury for Statens Byggeskikkpris, Magdalena will spend the week travelling Norway to visit the nominated projects - in Tromsø, Bergen, Stavanger, Førde and Oslo.

Gisle is spending the beginning of the week at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - School of Architecture, to teach and lecture at the sustainable living studio, department 10.

The Order of Potatoes

Åsa Sonjasdotter gives a lecture today, Thursday April 30, 15.00, at Kunstakademiet:

The presentation “A Potato Perspective on: The Order of Potatoes” is a rearrangement and actualisation of different presentations I’ve made on the subject over the last few years. In the presentation I will make available potato varieties that are prohibited for commercial circulation within the EU and present material on the historical journey that has led to this state of order.

The potatoes’ journey through Europe, from its first appearance as loot from Spanish Conquistadores’ raids in South America in the 1500s to its position today as genetically regulated plant material, contains many surprising details and conjunctions with major historical, political and economic transformations. Becoming an important foodstuff during industrialisation, the potato is one of the basic threads woven through the story of modern societal transformation.

Cultivated potato varieties are living historical material; they are carriers of information and knowledge from the past. Throughout history, the tubers have been bred to cater to our varying needs and desires, be it those of home-gardeners, small-scale farmers or corporate life sciences researchers. Some of this living history will be available during the exhibition since it takes place very appropriately during the potato-planting season; it will be possible for visitors to collect samples of potato varieties that still exist but have been outlawed for commercial circulation, planting or further distribution.

The handing-out of marginalized potato varieties is an act that increases, in real terms, the genetic diversity that is currently kept locked away in gene banks. It can at the same time be understood as a symbolic distribution, highlighting a matter of urgent importance to Europe: The marginalisation and criminalisation of what capital interests define as ‘disturbing elements’.

More about the project at: potatoperspective.

cold science

Tromsø is hosting the conference Melting Ice: Regional Dramas, Global Wake-Up Call today April 28, and the Arctic Council's Ministerial Meeting tomorrow, so the city is full of ministers and scientists - and Al Gore.
Parts of the Melting Ice conference can be followed on web-TV.

c'est la töff!

Excellent Kurant invites to une fête trusöxuelle this Saturday!
Performance, film, music and surprises!

coastal express

Gisle gives a guest lecture on openness and experiment today at the Network Colloquium: Multidisciplinary Perspectives at NTNU.
Tomorrow he'll lecture on the same theme at BAS, and present the studio we'll be teaching this autumn.

hot inauguration

Our rodeca research project (remember?) was inaugurated during Easter - yes, it's a sauna, on wheels on the terrace.
Blue light, hot steam, fresh snow and cold beer turned out to be a good combination - so this is where you might find us this week-end as well..!

allotmentplot

Spring is coming - join the allotment plot and do some urban agriculture - or why not rural agriculture, si tu préfères..

The idea is that with The Allotment Plot inspire and encourage people to use unplanned or unused areas close to where they live to grow what will become locally produced organically grown vegetables.
Plant a square of vegetable wherever you find the space for it. Grow organically, local and easy. Then publish pictures at our website to inspire more people to plant a square of vegetable wherever they find the space for it.

play all day

Our kindergartens are presented in the Play all day book about designs, concepts and diy ideas for children - cute!

God Påske!

Easter is cabin season - here's from today's VG, and yes, this is where we've spent some of the week..

przedszkole in przekroj

Landscape Architecture Day

Magdalena gives a lecture at Landscape Architecture Day tomorrow, April 1st. Other speakers during the day will be landscape architect and artist Monika Gora, architect and inventor Anders Wilhelmson, textile designer Sara Klein Svensson and light designer Martin Hellberg.
We really enjoy how the poster is matching this blog!

Cold Comfort

In Monocle issue 22 April 2009: Norwegian practice 70°N arkitektur proves that living inside the Arctic Circle can be done in comfort.

curators and mayor

Luba (of pikene), Arild (mayor of Tromsø), Espen and Øystein (of 0047) in front of testbedstudio's Iron Trails during the opening of Pan-Barentz - thanks for nice sushi dinner company and a great exhibition!

¡Viva!

Another great spanish magazine arrived - Arquitectura Viva. In this issue #122 the xbo is presented in the context of la casa asequible - a very ambitious article series and project presentation on prefab and modular architecture.

Pan-Barentz going north

The Pan-Barentz exhibition curated by 0047 and pikene på broen has traveled to Tromsø Kunstforening. Containing works by interesting artists and architects as Testbedstudio, NORD, BuroMoscow and with a really impressive and interesting catalogue/publication - Northern Experiments - containing the exhibited projects and texts by several reflective people, for instance The Olympic Dream - a spatial paradox and a possible new paradigm by Gisle..

Opening March 27 at 20.00 at Tromsø Kunstforening - see you there!

PKN#60

PechaKucha founder and organiser Astrid Klein of KDa with the spring-greetings-from-Tromsø film we sent to Tokyo for their PechaKucha Night #60 yesterday - congratulations from PKN Tromsø! (planning for #6 soon..)

..and yes - that first cherry blossom sequence is only a clin d'œil to japanese spring, the rest of the film contains images of Tromsø spring..

Pasajes Diseño

The kindergartens are presented in Pasajes Diseño #11 - a spanish magazine well worth to take a look at.

am Ende der Welt..

National Tourist Routes projects in Austrian magazine Zuschnitt #33.

t-birds

Beautiful bird-pic from brilliant Berlin-chic - thanks T!

KED @ AHO

Knut Eirik lecturing on collaborative processes and planning strategies; Nordhavnen and Mosaïc::Region at AHO - pics from bakgård.

Lectures - Mosaïc::Dynamic Scandinavian Tour 2009

Knut Eirik gives a lecture at AHO today Thursday at 13.00 in the large auditorium. (Poster from Bakgård.)

Other planned lectures on the theme of Openness and experiment - planning for unknown futures with examples from our projects and processes like Mosaïc::Region, Nordhavnen Edge Dynamics and the Year of City Development:

-Magdalena at Landscape Architecture Day - Innovative Integration - at SLU, Alnarp April 1.
-Gisle at Network Colloquium - Multidisciplinary Perspectives - at NTNU, Trondheim April 22.
-Gisle at sustainable living at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - School of Architecture, Copenhagen May 4.
-Gisle & Knut Eirik at World in Denmark Conference, Copenhagen May 29-30.
-Magdalena & Gisle at Harbour Cities conference in Kristiansand, June 19.

More dates and locations under negotiation.. keep updated for continuous info!

catching up..

Some project updates are now available on our web-site www.70n.no: Nordhavnen (Copenhagen), Co:Lab (Shanghai), Trofi (Tromsø) + some new pics of Brinkvegen and Strandkanten - to be continued..

architetti - orizzontale

We received an issue of architetti presenting rifugio per ciclisti, torre per il bird-watching e area di sosta - tante grazie!

Bjørvikarchitecture

The exhibition showing the proposals for the Munch/Stenersen museum and Deichmanske library opened today at Tullinløkka.

European Architecture

Strandkanten is one of the presented projects in the new Collection: European Architecture.

art again: kunstak - kurant - kontak

Need some art this week?
The Art Academy invites to Reduction - Tromsø Art Academy in an envelope, Friday March 13, 16.00 - 17.00 at Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum.
Kurant gallery presents in collaboration with contemporary music festival kontak several events and concerts this week-end: sequenza, aoide, lüdkamer, affinis..