18xMalmö

Here are our City as Biotope students at the final presentation: Kristian, Tone, Zlatan, Tove Helen, Herman, Kolbjørn, Mathias, Miao, Kuo-Chen, Stine, Roberto, Tove, Ragnhild, Christian, Martin Johannes, Miia-Liina, Laura and Gaute

Happy new 2010!

photo by Frank Kræmer

God Jul!

Brinken in Arkitektur N

Brinken Terrasse is presented in Arkitektur N #08/09.

Bergen again

We're at BAS for the final reviews at the City as Biotope studio. See the students' work at www.cityasbiotope.blogspot.com.

julebord

This year's christmas party was thrown at the office - with lots of nice people and delicious bacalao!

green, grand paris

The second of Gisle's articles, Learning from french presidents?, appeared in Nordlys this week. This time it is Paris, where we traveled together with our BAS students, that is under the search light, from projects launched by presidents to more rhizomatic ones, for instance from aaa.

fantasía y subjectividad

In the article Territorios de la infancia in spanish magazine Arquitectura Viva #126 our kindergartens are used as one of the examples.

Arkitektur i Norge - årboka 2009

The yearbook Architecture in Norway, edited by the National Museum for art, architecture and design, presents our kindergartens and Brinken Terrasse.

read mosaïc::reading

mosaïc::reading - the city as biotope is a master studio at Bergen Arkitektskole run during the autumn term 2009 by Gisle Løkken, Magdalena Haggärde, Kjerstin Uhre and Knut Eirik Dahl. Under the themes of new hierarchies, imbedded information, elasticity, dynamic of small cultures, points of departure, vulnerability and charging the landscape with new energy different aspects, ideas and possibilities of planning have been discussed and discovered - at the school in Bergen, on study trips to Malmö and Paris, and on the blog cityasbiotope. The blog has grown throghout the autumn with the students’ work, the presentation of new themes and comments.
Here, in this little textbook: mosaic::reading, the collection, we have gathered the introduction texts for each theme.
KED, KEU, GL and MH

Welcome Michele!

Michele has joined the 70°N-team!

Collection: Landscape Architecture

Our National Tourist Routes projects in Lofoten are presented in Collection: Landscape Architecture

Landscape architecture creates and shapes open spaces for human beings. It combines nature and architecture and links grown and planned environments. It depends on local factors such as the climate, type of soil, as well as varying local traditions much more than structural design.
Collection: Landscape Architecture presents the whole wealth of this fascinating sector featuring 180 projects around the world – from the classic fields of horticulture and park design, to LandArt and urban outdoor design, which make do without grass and trees entirely, up to the current ecological themes of interior gardens and façade greening.

arquitectura y madera

This publication, both on the web and printed, assembles wood architecture from all over the world - Lofoten for instance.

Fab in Førde

Mestres Wåge arquitectes and Nordplan have won the competition for a new town hall and more in Førde - well done and congratulations to them!
We're happy to be part of the team, as advisors.

lively or deadly conditions

Our proposal for Nordhavnen is being discussed in the latest issue of Conditions magazine. Under the interesting label Dead or Alive the uncertain futures of winning competition proposals are being researched.

and the winner is..

Gisle is in Graz this week-end together with the Europan jury, to make the final decision..
Congratulations to Europan Norway for that new and good looking web page!

junior

Our kindergarten is one of the example projects presented in the article Too cool for school? in british glossy kids' magazine Junior #121.

bubblebuilding

One of our projects is on its way up. This is, we believe, Tromsø's first bubbledeck.

Meet (or eat) the Muskox

Greenland party this week-end with stories, pictures and tastes from Kalaallit Nunaat.

PKN#7 - Polar Fokus

We are proud to present PechaKucha Night #7 in collaboration with the photo festival Polar Fokus!
It will take place Wednesday October 28, at 19.30 at Kjeller5. The presenters, all photographers, are:
Kristine Nyborg - Kristine Nyborg
Ingun Mæhlum - Fotodama
Arvid Sveen - Arvid Sveen
Svein Sætre - C3
Arthur Arnesen - FotoFilm
Mari Karlstad - Tromsø Museum
Jens-Morten Øvervoll - JM foto
Ronald Johansen - Bladet Tromsø
Torgrim Rath Olsen - Nordlys
Adnan Isagic - Tromsø Museum
DJ Kozmas

NB! New ticket system!
This is how it works now:
Due to the legislation and permissions for our venue, Kjeller5, you have to be a member to get in. To become a member is really easy, if you already now receive our flyers by e-mail you are a member, and can just show up! If not, just send an enquiry here - this is also how you get updated information and invitations!
On the PechaKucha Night the doors will open at 19.30, and we will let members until Kjeller5 is full..!

à +

Au revoir!

Exploring the high north

70°N goes west to investigate the prosperous future of the city of Maniitsoq on the western coast of Greenland. One week of traveling and exploration brought back strong impressions and exciting challenges.

A+U goes north

Some Lofoten projects in the latest issue of japanese magazine A+U, focusing on scandinavian architecture.

bring Bateson back

The first in a series of articles by Gisle appeared in today's Nordlys - Byer i endring (Changing cities) about urbanisation, with examples from our investigations in Malmö: new housing on old landfills as in Västra Hamnen, risks of gentrification in Möllevången, stigmatized Rosengård and the ressources and possibilities bound in the infrastructure areas and peri-urban landscapes - wrapping it all up with the words of Gregory Bateson: We are not outside the ecology for which we plan - we are always and inevitably a part of it.

away again

After spending last week with the students in Bergen and the Europan jury in Oslo Gisle has now left again. This time to Greenland - Kangerlussuaq, Sisimut, Maniitsoq.. - together with Berit who just returned from her asian trip - we have some travel stories to look forward to.

Seoul you!

Berit sends us some kim chi and patterns from her trip to Seoul and Tokyo - we want to hear all about it!

PKN#6!

We're happy to announce the presenters for PechaKucha Tromsø #6!
Erlend Mogård Larsen - Vulkana
Endre Skandfer – animator Storm Studios
Ingeborg Solvang – director Sonar Film
Jens Styve & Espen Sandberg - Tank
Tone Lein & Herman Kristoffersen - globetrotters
Andreas Willersrud - student politician
Kristian Gundersen - Random gallery
Phillippe Gundersen - urbanist Tromsø/Praha
Øyvind Johnson - student recruiter
DJ Bendiks

NB! New ticket system!
This is how it works now:
Due to the legislation and permissions for our venue, Kjeller5, you have to be a member to get in. To become a member is really easy, if you already now receive our flyers by e-mail you are a member, and can just show up! If not, just sign in here - this is also how you get updated information and invitations!
On the PechaKucha Night the doors will open at 19.30, and we will let members until Kjeller5 is full..!

Back in Öresund

We're traveling and investigating the Öresund region and Malmö once again, this time together with the students - from discussions about the Louisiana exhibition (Fremtidens arkitektur er grøn!), vegetable market at Möllevången, visit in Rosengård to picking pears in the peri urban areas.. ..and more.

in and out of office..

As Joar and Gisle are back from Drammen and Bergen, Berit has left us - again!
Hopefully we'll get some reports from Korea and Japan..

Tromseas

SEAS Tromsø starts today!

BAS begins

We're in Bergen for the start of the autumn term since we're going to teach a master studio at the architecture school - follow us at city as biotope!
At the opening day a fantastic new space was revealed out of the fogs of that old BAS smell - the silo will contribute to the school, that has already many intriguing spaces..

London calling

Berit has left for London, where she has a secret mission - we'll let you know, of course..

tromsø jam session

We missed the jam making but made it for the artist talk, and learned about the very interesting ideas and work behind the Public Fruit Jams - and the jar of Citrus Medley we got as a gift from LA earlier. And we could see and smell the result of some hours of collaborative jam making - lovely!

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration that began with creating maps of public fruit: the fruit trees growing on or over public property in Los Angeles. Our work includes an ongoing series of narrative photographs, videos, public events or collaborative performances, public-service announcement billboard posters designed for public transit shelters as well as interactive installation work and murals.

ivan again

Photographer extraordinaire Ivan Brodey spent some August days in Tromsø photographing some of our new projects - now it's up to us to chose the right pics from the contacts..

C3 #300

Korean magazine C3 presents our Lofoten projects over five spreads under the headline Command a Fine View Platform. In their special 300th issue you'll also find a fine presentation of parisian office R&Sie and their projects of hybridization, grafting, cloning and morphing.

parcours norvégien

French AD has been travelling Norway, visiting some national tourist routes projects and writing about it in their issue No83.

a+a

Chinese magazine a+a presents Strandkanten in vol.29 no.4.

seismograph exhibition

Still one week to see the Seismograph City exhibition, if you're in Hamburg..
The page on Nordhavnen is from the catalogue Seismograph City - sustainable strategies in architecture and urban design.

sweet summer

The office has been running a bit slow lately since some are on vacation and others are spending this beautiful Tromsø summer sublimely conducted by these delicate hands..

dialogue days

Peter Schultz Jørgensen, architect, planner and writer, is visiting us for some conversation, discussion and thinking on planning in our time. We have spent the last days in deep dialogue that is supposed to end up as a text in a book.
Peter is the author of the Weekendavisen articles Et kvalificeret brud and Den flydende by.