Around 50 students and five teachers from AHO and EPFL (Lausanne) visited us on February 15.
They were on a studytrip to Northern Norway and Spitsbergen in relation to the semester course "Studio for production of architecture - a territorial and architectural constitution of Barents Sea".
Gisle gave a lecture on "Planning on the edge of the melting ice".
Thanks for the visit!
PechaKucha Night Tromsø #13 is to be held at Kurant Thursday 23 February, as a part of the
Global Cities Week.
If you would like to be one of our presenters please send us a message with an idea of what you would like to talk about!
70°N will this winter and spring be found on a multitude of latitudes and longitudes. Right now some of us are at:
12°S / 28°E
55°N / 12°E
60°N / 10°E
43°N / 03°E
and soon some are leaving for:
23°N / 82°W
45°N / 76°W
40°N / 74°W
39°N / 03°E
48°N / 12°E
56°N / 38°E
Maybe we'll meet, somewhere!
Karl Otto Ellefsen, Janike Larsen, Peter Hemmersam
Knut Eirik Dahl, Aileen Espíritu, Arnfinn Jørgensen-Dahl
Natalia Kolesnik, Ánde Somby, Svein Harald Holmen
Lola Sheppard, Bjørn Gunnarsson, John Palmesino
Gislunn Halfdanardottir / Mathias Kempton, Neven Fuchs- Mikac / Torunn Stensheim, Gisle Løkken
The Landscapes in Change conference we organized during last year's Arctic Frontiers will be followed up. This year in collaboration with AHO the side conference on planning, landscape and architecture is called Territorial Practices and takes place 26 January at Tromsø University.
The main conference theme this year is Energies of the High North, taking place 22 - 27 January 2012, Tromsø - more info and registration: Arctic Frontiers
Our BAS students are blogging some of their impressions from a week in a lavvu together with Ánde Somby. Thanks to
Ánde for sharing this highly special experience with the studio!
We are in the colour in architecture category for the WAN AWARD - do you find our kindergarten among all the colorful nominated projects above?
We got a visit from Sjørosa kindergarten group; Sigurd, Mathias, Amanda, Annabelle, Lisa and Emil worked the foam and glue!
In 1000 tips by 100 landscape architects we and 99 other architects from all around the world are asked by editor Daniela Santos Quartino to formulate ten tips or ideas based on and illustrated by own projects.
You can read about these and.. 998 other projects in 1000 X European Architecture, 2nd ed.
Gisle has found some lines of flight in Vardø, read about it in the article.
..and here is a faximil for the article published in August: Reorientations:
Today we received some copies of the publication What's the question?, where we are contributing with an article based on a lecture held this spring:
Is my red the same as your red?
The view this morning from the soon-to-be-finished office building at Sjølundvegen 1.
The Architecture Festival continues and Wednesday 28 September this event marks the launch of the 20X11 publication What's the question? where we have contributed with an article together with a number of other norwegian architects and with commenting articles by Bart Lootsma and Nan Ellin.
People & landscapes encountered during our study trip with Emerging Arctic Landscapes.
Follow the master studio on a road trip through Finnmark and Kola: Emerging Arctic Landscapes.
We have left for Bergen to start up this autumn's master studio, Emerging Arctic Landscapes. Please follow us the studio blog:
http://emergingarcticlandscapes.blogspot.com/
Petra brought some cherry tomatoes grown in the green houses at Strandkanten as a part of the Urban Natur project. Delicious!
The picture was taken after lunch..
Dagbladet has let a jury pick Norway's most important public buildings this summer. In addition to the ambitious articles about these buildings, each jury member has picked a personal favourite project, and here is
Tommie Wilhelmsen's.
..and the list:
1. Kunstnernes hus by Gudolf Blakstad and Herman Munthe-Kaas
2. Den nordiske paviljongen i Venezia by Sverre Fehn
3. Ishavskatedralen by Jan Inge Hovig
4. St. Hallvards kirke og kloster by Lund & Slaatto
5. Storhamarlåven by Sverre Fehn
6. Oslo rådhus by Arnstein Arneberg and Magnus Poulsson
7. Røldal-Suldal vannkraftanlegg by Geir Grung
8. Ingierstrand bad by Ole Lind Schistad and Eivind Moestue
9. Sundts varemagasin by Per Grieg
10. Operahuset i Bjørvika by Snøhetta
is the title of Gisle's article in today's Nordlys, discussing the dimensions and dynamics of time and space in the construction of our identity, ideas and common future.
(we'll link to the text as soon as it is available online)
Update: although the client was very pleased with the cabin we have upgraded it - with a door. This adds a whole new dimension to the project (knock-knock etc), and keeps the sheep out.
