Jarmund / Vigsnæs Arkitekter

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Jarmund / Vigsnæs AS Arkitekter is a Norwegian architecture company based in Oslo .

Development of the company

The corporation Jarmund / Vigsnæs AS was founded in 1996 by Einar Jarmund and Håkon Vigsnæs. Alessandra Kosberg has been the third partner since 2004. The range of work carried out extends from huts and single-family houses to large public buildings. The style is characterized by the critics as “super modern” to “neo-minimalist”.

In 2007 the work of the architecture office was exhibited at the São Paulo Architecture Biennale .

Buildings (selection)

  • 2012: Apartment hotel in Myrkdalen north of Voss (Norway) .
  • 2012: Two family house in Oppdal , Norway.
  • 2011: Dune house in Suffolk , England
  • Hagaparken gym and sports center in Vänersborg , Västra Götalands län , Sweden
  • National hiking trails in Lofoten in Norway
  • Dønning youth center at Gimsøystraumen in Lofoten
  • Single family home Moloveien 28 , Ålesund , Denmark
  • Apartments and hotel Noria Moria at Norefjell , Norway
  • 2001: Reconstruction of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design in the former workshop building of the Oslo Electricity Works
  • Conversion of the transformer building in Bærum near Oslo into the Trafo gallery and café
  • Reconstruction of an administration building on the Akershus fortress peninsula in Oslo as the Ministry of Defense , together with the architects ØKAW
  • 2005: Svalbard Research Park in Longyearbyen , Svalbard
  • Conversion of a former factory into student accommodation in Leiden , the Netherlands
  • 2002: Reconstruction of the Turtagrø Hotel in Luster , Norway after a fire
  • 2002: Dat Røde Hus , single-family home in Røa in Oslo
  • Molde University
  • 2000: Renovation and remodeling of Vestkantbadet in Oslo
  • 1999: Traffic control center for Kvitsøy , Norway
  • Headquarters of the Norwegian telephone company Telenor in Fornebu, Greater Oslo
  • 1998: Single family home at Fiolvegen 6 in Asker , Norway
  • 1997: Reconstruction of the administration building of the governor of Svalbard after a fire
  • 1997: Combined residential and studio building at Langoddveien 111 in Snarøya , Norway
  • Washington Pass Visitor Center in the Okanogan National Forest , Washington (State) , USA

Prizes and awards

  • 2001: Ar + d Award for the design for the reconstruction of the governor's administration in Spitzbergen
  • 2003: Houens Fonds diploma for the renovation of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Einar Jarmund

Jarmund (born April 20, 1962 in Oslo) graduated from the Oslo School of Architecture in 1987 and obtained his master's degree in 1989 from the University of Washington in Seattle , Washington, USA. He had his own architectural office in Seattle until 1992 and then worked for architects in Seattle and Oslo. In 1994 he formed his first architectural association in Oslo, until he merged with Håkon Vigsnæs in 1996.

Jarmund is on the board of the Oslo Architects' Association

Håkon Vigsnæs

Vigsnæs (born May 5, 1962 in Oslo) graduated from the Oslo School of Architecture in 1988 and then went to the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London . He lectured at his alma mater and was visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis , Missouri , USA. He worked as an employee at Sverre Fehn and Hagen Arkitekter before opening his own office in 1993 and joining forces with Einar Jarmund in 1996.

Vigsnæs is on the board of the Oslo Architects' Association.

Alessandra Kosberg

Kosberg (born August 27, 1967 in Oslo) graduated from the Oslo School of Architecture in 1994. She has worked at Jarmund / Vigsnæs since 1997 and became a partner there in 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vacation in the avant-garde. In: Der Spiegel . 30/2011 of July 25, 2011, p. 126/127.