PKN#4 - the list!

We are proud to announce the list of presenters at Pecha Kucha Night #4:
Anneli Drecker - music artist / composer
Håkon Matre Aasarød - fantastic norway - architect
Victoria H Meirik - theatre director
Trine Falch - performance artist
Sigrid Bjørkum - Siggelicious - architect / blogger
Fredrik Forssman - rock consultant - Rockens Hus
Rachel Peterson + Ole Gunnar Solheim - Redd Barna + Amnesty International - region leaders
Elisabeth Brun - NRK - producer
Kolbjørn Lyslo - fra Lev Termen til tysk tekno
+ DJ Bendiks!

October 8 at 19.30 the doors will open at Kjeller5 (øvre Mack, Storgata sør) - and the fourth Pecha Kucha in Tromsø will take place!
The number of tickets is limited, please make a reservation here. Remaining tickets will be sold at the entrance (20;-).
Pecha Kucha Night Tromsø is arranged by tank design and 70°N arkitektur in collaboration with Mack. Devised and shared by Klein & Dytham architecture.

le Quotidien des Architectes - part one: charretting

For our non-architect readers we will now tell you a little about the everyday life of the architects: what we do when we cannot make it for that party/movie/travel/dentist appointment/tennis match/dinner you proposed..

Life at the architect office contains both hard (and secret, you'll know later) work; see images above taken at 3 am last night, and some glamorous celebrating when good (but secret, you'll know it all soon) news arrive; see pics below taken exactly twelve hours later.

One thing you can notice is that we are happy all the time! You can also see that we never leave our magic machines. It doesn't matter if we're struggeling with last-minute-changes and pdf-exports at five o'clock in the morning or if we're doing some really heavy celebration - this time it was these 0,50€ eskimos, sometimes there is champagne involved.. - to be continued..

archdaily tourists

Our Tourist Routes projects are now published on archdaily.


Here the idea was to write something on all these fantastic people with great blogs doing a lot of work finding and publishing interesting projects, but since we are charetting hard these days - this will be all for now..

..by the way - Strandkanten is now to find also here, here and here..

daily daycare

On archdaily today: the kindergartens!










..we just got a tip that they appear here as well..

brad and us

Here are this week's pics by mocoloco presenting Brad Pitt's architecture (on top) and some Gisle L architecture (a couple of images below..) - the brad-battle just begun!
Should we get into acting to keep him busy on two fronts?

in the zone again

This time it is our National Tourist Routes projects that are nicely presented in DeZona!

NAF - kindergartens

This Thursday we're invited by NAF as one of three offices to present and discuss our work with kindergartens in Tromsø. If you're interested you're welcome; Thursday, September 18 at 18.30, in Formannskapssalen, Tromsø City Hall.

hyttehelg

The cabin in Skarsfjord is presented by arkinetia.

play it again

The new versions of the playing walls are here demonstrated by happy kids at Elvestrand kindergarten.

observation posts

This is a brief of a text by prof. urb. Knut Eirik Dahl on our Lofoten projects, that we think is very beautiful - today's little gift to you:

Observation posts in the landscape

“My personal favourite to win, however, would be the Norwegian State Road Administration. Forum AID documented their Tourist Roads project in issue 3.06, such an extremely unconventional and extensive project that during the ten years it has been going on has stimulated a whole new generation of architects.”
Mark Isitt, former editor in chief for Forum AID magazine, on the Forum AID award 2007

70°N arkitektur was represented in the exhibition “Detour” at Norsk Form in 2006 with three projects in Vestvågøy and Austvågøy, Lofoten Islands - one birds observation building, one cyclists’ rest space and one rest area, given form as respectively two small towers and one linear field in the landscape.

The italian architect Franco Purini wrote many years ago a text in Casabella on the menaces to the italian landscape and proposed a (mental) network of observation posts to protect it. The projects in Lofoten can be seen as such posts. The Tourist Routes project as a whole can be seen as such a network. It is this larger idea behind this national project that stimulates the architects to do their utmost.

The projects appear as small scenes on the surface – landscape condensation in built form.

These three projects can and should be seen as ‘a body of work”. They are unbelievably beautiful and will become even more beautiful with the time, and take upon them new qualities. Everybody who keeps up to date have noticed that these three projects are published and discussed in international press, whenever norwegian architecture is presented outside the country’s borders.

It is a global appeal in our time in these simplified constructions, barely visible but so present – on the site.

fantastic fantastic!

Right now the fantastic fantastic norway people are about to start their fantastic festival performance in the red caravan at the Venice Biennale - yes, we support and believe in FANTASTIC NORWAY!


pic borrowed from siggelicious

x-factor guided tour

Students from NTNU visited Tromsø and got a guided tour from Strandkanten, via Brinkvegen and Nøkken ending in Steinsvik's I-BOX.

3RWin!

The Skjold Steiner-school by 3RW has been awarded Bergen Arkitektforening's byggherrepris - congratulations!

in the zone

Strandkanten is in DeZona, and so are the kindergartens!

think and practice

A quick trip to Stockholm this week-end let us take part in the Stockholm Seminar's lectures and discussions on thinking architecture - reflective practitioners.

mobile inhabitat

Inhabitat presents the xbo today..










..and it sure is mobile..!

work in progress

Deep discussions with our D&U friends - but about what? We'll tell you soon!

an archi a day..

Strandkanten is your daily dose of architecture!

jamón jamón

The cava was good and so was the jamón at our spanish evening - starting on the terrace and ending with a slide show which included some learning from Bilbao.. ehum..

Mosaïc planning

Today Mosaïc::Region - represented by Gisle, Kjerstin, Knut Eirik and Magdalena - was invited for a presentation and discussion with Tromsø's Planning Director Per Hareide and his crew at the municipality's planning department. Everybody was engaged in the debate on how to plan for unknown futures in a complex and non-linear world..

beating up buildings

The research continued by beating up the building (pic2), refill recycled plastic crystals (with the help of a cut off bottle, pic4-5) and then the proud team could put the roof on its place (pic6) and organized a glow in the dark test (below) of the ... - yes, what is it? Let's say best guess gets invited to the inauguration party..

xbo aujourd'hui

The xbo is nicely presented as today's archdaily...







.. and now it has spread - the kindergartens are also travelling the cyber space - here, here and here..!

rodeca experience

..the polycarb testing continues..

kindergarten cover

SEBU, the centre for kindergarten development in Norway, has just published a book reviewing the kindergartens in a 10-year perspective (with Agnes in Fjellveien on the cover). You can order it from SEBU.

ceci n'est pas..

..a World Expo pavillion, but a proposal for one.
Congratulations to Helen & Hard who did win the competition and are going to build their Nature of Norway pavillion in Shanghai 2010!
All the five proposals will be exhibited at Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Bankplassen 3, Oslo, August 15 - 24.

Thanks..

.. to you too!

Below the Clouds

puts our kindergartens on his blog, and would have "renounced all saftsoppa and hallonkräm in the world to join in a kindergarten drawn by Norwegian 70°N arkitektur"..

reflections..

of a journey #2:
guess where to (one country, several cities), what (buildings/works) and who (architects/artists).. maybe some clues will be given soon - and yes, we are back!

Ok, here are the answers, from left to right: Caixa Forum Madrid by Herzog & de Meuron; extension of Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, by Jean Nouvel; We Only Meet when We Move by Olafur Eliasson at Reina Sofia; gymnasium in El Retiro and library in Usera, both by Àbalos & Herreros; Tilted Circles / The Nature of Things by Olafur Eliasson at Fundació Joan Miró; Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion by Zaha Hadid ; Mies van der Rohe 's Barcelona Pavilion; Torre de Gas Natural, Barcelona, by Enric Miralles - Benedetta Tagliabue ; Edifici Fòrum Barcelona by Herzog & de Meuron - how many did you get?
We also visited just as interesting but less reflective works by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, Rafael de La-Hoz Arderius, Rafael Moneo, Alejandro de la Sota Martínez, Martínez Lapeña - Torres Arquitectos, Jeff Koons, Frank Gehry, Jenny Holzer, Rebecca Horn, Beth Galí + even more Tagliabue/Miralles, Àbalos/Herreros, Nouvel..

Playa Torvdalshalsen

Our Torvdalshalsen is one of the presented projects in the new Frame book Beachlife. This is what the editors say about the publication:
'Oceans, seas, vast lakes and rivers are seemingly endless spaces that convey a sense of timelessness and generate universal feelings of freedom and adventure. The unique atmosphere of the seaside has been captured by designers, architects and artists worldwide.
Compiled in this book are 115 creative concepts, from beach clubs, hotels and oceanfront homes to sea baths, urban beaches and art installations. Page after page, Beachlife offers examples of design, architecture and art that enhance the recreational and residential functions of waterfront sites across the globe. It touches on the subject of rising water levels and shows how architects, artists and designers are responding to climate change. An inspiring book for everyone fascinated by the waterfront, Beachlife presents a broad range of richly illustrated projects that promise to trigger the imagination.'

monoclous

K1 appears under the label multi-unit residential in monocle's special design directory in the July issue.

Shanghai co:lab

We have now delivered our final proposal - co:lab - for the Shanghai 2010 expo competition. In collaboration with 0047 and tank we are one of five prequalified teams, competing against Snøhetta, Helen&Hard, Rintala Eggertsson and others.

ten years, turning grey..

The pretext to throw a summer party this week-end is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Skarsfjord cabin..!

'scape mosaïc

The latest issue of dutch magazine 'scape contains an article by prof. Jens Kvorning with his interesting reflections on the Øresund visions competition - and our Mosaïc::Region proposal - worth reading!

'(...) The ’mosaic’ metaphor in the proposal was given different meanings. It is about understanding and developing the region as a mosaic of many different types of areas, including different social and cultural environments. It is about employing such a sense of understanding to offer room for the very complex way in which the many sub-areas and sub-environments interact with one another. Throughout this interaction, it is about handling and creating a high degree of dynamics between areas and environments. It is about leaving room for many different players to be proactive and to make individual contributions to the dynamics, while at the same time ensuring that the development of the region does not take an undesireble or environmentally unfriendly turn.
In order to implement these initiatives, systems must be established that can accept and work with a multitude of different development forums, from which new ideas and initiatives will stem.
From a graphic standpoint, the proposal was presented as a large mosaic made up of various fields and planes where different issues and questions pertaining to many different levels were confronted with one another, in the same way as the many players and concept forums developing the region in practice, appear in the multiple physical, intellectual and political realms, all influencing one another in complex ways.
(...) (the award-winning proposal) made an attempt, in inventive and convincing ways, to handle and develop the complexity within thought-based, visualized realms as well as physical ones.'

Jens Kvorning, Professor of Urbanism at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in 'scape 1/2008

Detour London

The Detour exhibition on the National Tourist Routes moves from Stockholm to London where it opens June 25 at 33 Portland Place. The exhibition is part of the programme of London Festival of Architecture.

Strandkanten outdoors

photos by Bjørn Jørgensen

aitim #252

Spanish magazine Aitim puts our kindergartens on the cover + in a six pages spread article in their issue #252 - we like!

o estado das coisas in das Haus der Kulturen

Anniken spent the last week in Berlin working with Gustavo Ciriaco on the performance Still - sob o estado das coisas at the performing arts festival of Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

reflections..

..of a journey:
guess where to..

(three clues would be (as on pics above): Jean Nouvel, Lacaton & Vassal and Jakob + MacFarlane in Piano & Rogers..)

Nordnorsk arkitekturpris - ur juryens vurdering:

Juryen vurderte flere prosjekter i Finnmark, Lofoten og Nordland men valgte å slutte seg til professor Knut Eirik Dahls forslag om å tildele Nordnorsk arkitekturpris for 2008 til tre prosjekter av 70°N arkitektur i Lofoten, en del av Statens turistvegprosjekt. Det er et fugltitterhus, et skur for syklister og en rasteplass, ' gitt form som henholdsvis to små tårn og et lineært felt i landskapet'. Dahl skriver videre at 'den italienske arkitekten Franco Purini skrev for mange år siden en tekst om truslene mot det italienske landskapet, og foreslo et mentalt nettverk av observasjonsposter for å hegne om dette. Lofotenprosjektene kan ses på som slike punkter. Hele vegvesenets prosjekt kan ses på som et slikt nett. Det er denne større ideen bak prosjektet som ansporer arkitektene til sitt ytterste. Det er en global appell, i vår tid, i disse forenklede konstruksjonene, som knapt er synlige, men er så til stede - på stedet.'

Juryen har bestått av Mia De Coninck fra Kirkenes og Rose-Marie Steinsvik (2007 års vinnere) og Erling Steenstrup fra Tromsø. Prisen ble delt ut i samband med NAFs årsmøte.

NNAP prize!

We have been awarded the Northern Norway Architecture Award!
(Nordnorsk arkitekturpris)
It was given to our three projects for the National Tourist Routes in Lofoten during the NAF (Northern Norway Architect Association) annual meeting June 6.
Read more in arkitektnytt.
Afterwards we all had the pleasure to hear spanish architect Juan Herreros give a lecture, and spend a really nice evening together.