Snøhetta BIAD   China   Snøhetta, in collaboration with the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD), has won the international competition for the new Beijing Art Museu in Tongzhou District, in the southeast part of the Chinese capital. It will be the Norwegian fir

Snøhetta   Germany   Snøhetta has unanimously been selected by the 25 members of the jury of the competition to build Düsseldorf’s new opera house, future home of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The building mass is divided into three asymmetrical trapezium-shaped segments,

Snøhetta   China   Snøhetta's proposal has won the competition to build an art museum on the banks of the Qiantang River in the Xiaoshan district of Hangzhou. Covering 18,000 m², this building is the centrepiece of an ambitious urban development project. The design is

Snøhetta Benthem Crouwel Architects   Netherlands   The firms Snøhetta and Benthem Crouwel Architects have unveiled their idea for the House of Culture and Administration, to be located at Plein Molenberg, the central square Delfzijl, a port city now belonging to the Dutch municipality of Eemsdelta. T

Snøhetta   Sweden   In the new residential development of Wendelstrand, outside Mölnlycke and not far from Gotheburg, this 6,264 -square-meter community building has opened. The so-called Lakehouse seeks to foster community life among the occupants of the thousand homes

Snøhetta   China   If in the impressive Bibliotheca Alexandrina Snøhetta proved that roofs can become facades, in the symbolic Norwegian National Opera and Ballet they demonstrated that roofs can also be plazas, and almost twenty-five years later the echoes of both des

Snøhetta   France   Nestling in the heart of the Pyyenees National Park, the project is a reconstruction of the Barroude mountain refuge that fire destroyed ten years ago. The building will provide a visitor reception center, support facilities for park staff, and accom

Snøhetta Alley Poyner Macchietto    United States   The Norwegian studio Snøhetta and the local firm Alley Poyner Macchietto were commissioned to expand and renovate the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, which recently reopened. The institution had an original building completed in 1931, a work of the archi

Snøhetta   China   The new center is a quiet oasis of culture in the district where the Chinese capital’s local administration has been concentrating, a ‘sub-center’ that seeks to slow down the crowding of the heart of the metropolis. Protected by a flat roof with larg

Snøhetta BNIM   United States   In the city of Decorah, Snøhetta was commissioned to enlarge the Vesterheim, the National Norwegian-American Museum and Folk Art School, which is focused on the people from the Nordic country who arrived in the United States in the 1820s. In collabor

Snøhetta Alfonso Penela   Spain   The new roof, inspired by the gracefulness of a veil in the wind, connects the volumes on both sides of the cloister and oversails the ruins to shelter them from the weather. The inner courtyard had a residual role, but now it distributes the spaces

Snøhetta   France   Drawing inspiration from the continuous elliptical movement of the stars, the new cultural sight of the city of Douai, in northern France, is located between the river Scarpe and the Arkéos archaeological museum. The composition of curved lines envel

Snøhetta Werk Arkitekter   Denmark   In addition to promoting the practice of water activities and bringing different sports clubs into one building, the new facilities of a marina are meant to serve as a social hub for the locality.

Snøhetta   United States   “The non-building of the year.” That is how the grand dame of architectural criticism, Ada Louise Huxtable, dubbed the skyscraper – crowned like a piece of English furniture – that Philip Johnson raised in Midtown Manhattan in the 1980s, and which de

Snøhetta   France   The Norwegian firm Snøhetta has been chosen to refurbish and enlarge the Natural History Museum of Lille in northern France, close to the Belgian border. The idea is to revitalize the 19th-century building through sustainable solutions while preservi

Snøhetta   Australia   The project is the result of an international design competition to transform Harbourside into a new, iconic, and inviting destination at the heart of Sydney. The landmark site has a long, rich, and layered history, which provides a unique framework.

Snøhetta   France   Surrounded by the Arkéos museum, the river Scarpe, a major road axis, and a small residential area, the new Planetarium and Observatory of Douaisis is designed to be a visual signal while keeping the natural aspect of the site. The dome of the planet

Snøhetta   Denmark   Situated near Jægersborg Deer Park, north of Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard houses Northern Europe’s most comprehensive collection of French and Danish art from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Originally built as a three-winged country mansion in the neo

Snøhetta   Norway   In the peaceful ambience of the forests, only a short walking distance from two of Norway’s largest hospitals, Snøhetta has designed two secluded wooden shelters aspiring to make hospitalization easier for patients and their families. Designed for th

Snøhetta   Sweden   This addition to the renowned Treehotel hovers ten meters above the ground within the tree canopy, in the tall pine forest of Northern Sweden. The complex features another six tree rooms designed by Nordic architects. The 55-square meter (two bedroom

Snøhetta   Austria   The international trekking and adventure travel company ASI Reisen sought to have its new space reflect the company’s working culture and commitment to offering sustainable experiences for travelers around the world. Inspired by a symbiosis between n

Snøhetta   Austria   Developed for the Tyrolean crystal manufacturer, Swarovski Manufaktur is a progressive workshop for the 21st century, designed to facilitate innovative collaborations, inventive exchange, and fast implementation of ideas. The structure merges design,

Snøhetta   United States   On average, 330,000 people move through Times Square every day. Understanding the magnitude of these crowds and patterns of movement was fundamental to creating a new life for one of the most iconic public spaces in the world. The reconstruction radi

Snøhetta and the Danish firm Ege Carpets have developed MATTER, a collection of recycled polyster rugs in two chromatic palettes and that integrates generative codes into textile manufacturing. The project uses an algorithm that controls variation an

Kjetil Trædal Thorsen   The difficult balance between professionalism, poetics, and sustainability defines the work of a practice in constant evolution like Snøhetta. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Snøhetta has not created a body of work, but works from the body and for the body. If the studio was founded with the mythical ascent to the mountain by that name, their work over more than three decades has been guided by a social and environmental

With materials sourced from the depths of Lake Pieman in Tasmania, and inspired by its home in a Bondi Beach office space, the Intersection Worktable merges a conventional worktable with material exploration and sculptural furniture. Reaching almost

The New York Times   Hilarie M. Sheets   The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin is planning a $35 million campus redesign led by the firm Snohetta. It will feature architectural and landscaping improvements throughout the museum’s 200,000-square-foot grounds like a d

On a plateau close to the Jostedal Glacier, overlooking it, stand these wooden cabins for use by hikers, designed by the Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta to withstand the harsh climate conditions, including strong winds, of this mountainous zone.

Snohetta   Snøhetta was honored as the recipient of the 2020 National Design Award for Architecture, bestowed by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The studio was selected for the impact of their designs, particularly in the areas of social and environme

Miguel Fernández-Galiano   Catorce obras y dos textos —uno introductorio de la editora Sandra Hofmeister y otro de uno de los fundadores del estudio, Kjetil Thørsen— resumen el trabajo de Snøhetta en esta monografía en formato libro y tapa dura de la prestigiosa revista aleman

In the context of its internationalization process the Norwegian firm Snøhetta recently won the competition for a theater building in Xingtai, one of China’s oldest but also fastest growing cities. The project is organized around a large reflective p

Snøhetta   In service to its continued commitment to knowledge equity, the Wikimedia Foundation has chosen Snøhetta as its strategic design partner to better communicate its mission through a renewed visual identity. The goal is to design a new visual identity

Founded in 1989 by four partners and now directed by Kjetil Trædal Thorsen and Craig Dykers, Snøhetta is a Norwegian practice that employs almost 140 people in its two offices, in Oslo and New York. Efficient and poetic at the same time, the archite

With works like the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet behind it, the firm Snøhetta, based mainly in Oslo, has triumphed in the international competition for the privilege of building the Shanghai Grand Opera House, in conjunction with the Chinese s

The huge technological multinationals wield power of the soft kind, not with violence but through a silent, albeit extremely profitable wheeling and dealing with our digital footprints. This power for the time being meets with little resistance, prot

Maybe the lethargy that has taken over our bodies after so much submission to the dictates of the mobile phone has led to the fashion of the even-harder, in a search for radical experiences brought to extremes. This would perhaps explain construction

The development of the highways in Norway left the vernacular routes that ran along national roads in disuse. This circumstance is common to the rest of Europe, but was especially dramatic in the Nordic country because of the extraordinary landscapes

Phase one of the competition to revamp Bilbao’s Museum of Fine Arts has ended with the shortlisting of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos; Rafael Moneo; Foster + Partners with LM Uriarte Arkitektura; BIG with AZAB and Proskene; Snøhetta with Foraster Arquite

The New York Times    Michael Kimmelman   A year ago, you may recall, the architecture firm Snohetta unveiled its initial plan to reincarnate the 37-story, 647-foot-high building with the Chippendale crown on Madison Avenue, between 55th and 56th Streets, which Philip Johnson completed in 19

Snøhetta    In 2014, The Central Bank of Norway appointed Snøhetta and Metric Design/Terje Tønnessen to develop the design proposal for its new paper currency. One and a half years after the release of the emblematic 100 and 200 notes, the new 50 and 500 notes h

Popular imagination tends to make fun of ‘weird’ buildings, but also often ends up fascinated with them. In the case of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art expansion by the American office of Snøhetta, it’s not clear if the mockery will turn into

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The American Craig Dykers and the Norwegian Kjetil Trædal Thorsen have walked a long way in twenty-five years. From the competition for Bibliotheca Alexandrina in 1989 to the opening in New York of the September 11 Pavilion in 2014, the founders of S

The aims of the National September 11 Memorial Museum are hard to reconcile. This new institution is supposed to evoke terrible attacks and remember their victims, yet at the same time be a pragmatic building with the capacity to take in thousands of

El estudio Snøhetta ha sido seleccionado para construir la Ópera de Busan —la segunda ciudad surcoreana más poblada tras la capital, Seúl—, imponiéndose a las propuestas de los otros nueve finalistas, entre los que se encontraban Norman Foster, Zaha

Norwegian National Opera & Ballet  With a biennial character and granted by the Mies van der?Rohe Foundation of Barcelona and the European Union, the main purpose of the Mies Award is to acknowledge the quality of architectural production i

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