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..

5YRSPRTY

The design heroes at tank filled their office with people, music and Mack beer this friday night to celebrate their first 5 years of existence - we say 'très bien!'





(..and thank you for the tank tattoo t-shirt!)

Room to grow in

In Dagbladet Søndag december 2 you can read an interesting article over ten pages about three kindergartens with special concepts: Svartlamoen by Brendeland & Kristoffersen, 'den blå appelsin' and our kindergartens in Fjellvegen and Sommereng - buy it and read about children and architecture!

Open art

The Art Academy of Tromsø proposes open lectures - this week Pierre Bismuth, Brussels, and Morten Goll, Copenhagen, are presenting their work and ideas, and discussing with the students - and us!
We highly appreciate having a brand new art school in Tromsø that gives us this opportunity to listen to and discuss with interesting people!

Building competence for the Olympics

Gisle gives a lecture at the Olympic Arena Conference organized by Norwegian Steel Association thursday november 29 in Oslo. His lecture about the olympic venues planned for Tromsø 2018 will be followed by others on the olympic cities of Vancouver, Lillehammer, Sochi, London, Torino, Sydney, Athens and Beijing.

C'est clair!

Some of the first days of the dark period (no sun above the horizon for the next two months) Clara Fraenkel of Ljusarkitektur visited Tromsø together with her collegue Deike Canzler to work with the lights of Strandkanten.

iArrival

Christmas in advance when our iPhones arrived..

Green sector

Torvdalshalsen appears in landscape magazine park & anlegg #10 2007.

Beautiful detours

These beautiful words about the National Tourist Routes are to be read in a supplement called High North - the region of possibilities in today's Dagens Nyheter (november 21).. In addition one can read interesting articles about arctic waters, energy in Barents, scandinavian collaboration projects, climate changes, Strindberg vs Ibsen, jojk, ministers on tour etc.

Norwegian Architecture 2007

70°N is presented with an extraordinary essay written by Knut Eirik Dahl + lots of pictures over 16 pages in the 2007 Yearbook for Norwegian Architecture - Arkitektur i Norge Årbok 2007 published by pax forlag in collaboration with Nasjonalmuséet for kunst, arkitektur og design. The beautiful cover picture is Steinar Skaar's photo of our project in Torvdalshalsen.

remaining X

All that is left of our street art action in the autumn 2005, before the Tromsø X-Files exhibition..

Kindergarten lecture

We are invited to talk about the kindergartens with the design students at Breivang high school. They are studying our kindergarten interiors and furniture for children. Tuesday november 20 Anniken will give a lecture and lead a workshop for the students.

Detour on tour

The festival Les Boréales in Caen, Normandie, shows the Tourist Routes exhibition Detour. The exhibition opens november 12 and will stay in Caen until new year before moving on to Paris..

One billion..

..to the National Tourist Routes project is the head line for a two spread article in today's Dagens Næringsliv, where our Torvdalshalsen project is being presented - entre autres...