Snøhetta (architectural office)
Snøhetta Arkitektur og Landskap A / S (international spelling also Snoehetta ; translated: Snow Cap Architecture and Landscape ) is a Norwegian / US-American office for architecture , landscape architecture , interior design and brand design with headquarters in Oslo (Norway) and further branches in New York City (USA), San Francisco (USA) and Innsbruck (Austria).
The office, named after the Norwegian mountain Snøhetta , was founded in 1989 by fellow students: the Norwegian Kjetil Thorsen , the American Craig Dykers , the Austrian Christoph Kapeller and others.
Awards
In 2004 the Snøhetta office received the Aga Khan Prize for Architecture , in 2005 the Norsk Form Design Prize, and in 2008 the Peer Gynt Prize awarded by the Norwegian Parliament ( Storting ). In 2009 they received the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture for building the National Opera and Ballet House in Oslo. In 2010 they received the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture .
buildings
- 1989–2002, The Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt was planned by the architecture firm Snøhetta in cooperation with the Egyptian office for structural planning Hamza Associates (Cairo) on behalf of UNESCO .
- 1997–1999, Norwegian Embassy in Berlin , with a 15-meter-high, 120-tonne granite slab on the facade.
- 1993–1994, Lillehammer Art Museum (as an official art contribution to the XVII Winter Olympics in 1994 ), Lillehammer , Norway.
- 1998–1999, Fisheries Museum in Karmøy , Norway
- 2000, Hamar Town Hall , Norway
- 2003, Cultural Center of the Bærum Municipal Association in Sandvika , Norway.
- 2004–2007, Petter Dass Museum in Alstahaug , Norway.
- 2004–2008, The Oslo Opera House , the venue of the Norwegian Opera , was built from 2004 after an international competition and opened on April 12, 2008. The building is considered to be the largest post-war Norwegian cultural project to date. The construction cost was around 520 million euros. Project leader: Tarald Lundevall
- 2005, Dandelion House (Norwegian: Løvetannhus, "dandelion house"): house prototypes in modular construction , London and Norway
- 2005, urban development Umeå , Sweden ("City between the Bridges")
- 2006, Tubaloon (a concert shell based on the air-supported principle as the main stage of the Kongsberg Jazz Festival) in Kongsberg , Norway
- 2006–2014, cultural center as part of the World Trade Center Memorial complex as a memorial building on “ Ground Zero ”, ie the debris-cleared area of the World Trade Center destroyed on September 11, 2001 . The contract for the “WTC Cultural Center” includes a visitor center, the “International Freedom Center” and the “Drawing Center”.
- 2007, Summer Pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery in London , England (Kjetil Thorsen in collaboration with Olafur Eliasson ).
- 2010, Ras Al Khaimah Convention and Exhibition Center : Complex of buildings comprising a convention center, exhibition halls, shopping centers and two luxury hotels at the "entrance" of Ra's al-Khaimah , the capital of the emirate of the United Arab Emirates of the same name ; The client is Crown Prince Saud bin Saqr al-Qasimi , the fourth eldest son of Sheikh Saqr bin Muhammad al-Qasimi .
- 2014–2017, new building for the Bergen School of Art and Design (Kunst- og designhøgskolen i Bergen, KHiB) in Bergen , Norway; the competition design received 1st prize in 2005, together with Tonje Værdal Frydenlund (in progress; completion is expected in 2017)
- 2016, Lascaux IV , France, visitor center and replica of the famous Lascaux cave.
- 2017, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Arabic: مركز الملك عبد العزيز الثقافي العالمي) in Dhahran , Saudi Arabia, client: Saudi Aramco
- Juma Al Majid Heritage & Culture Center (cultural center and library), Dubai , United Arab Emirates
Others
- 2014, design of the back of the new Norwegian banknotes. The design was selected by Norges Bank . From 2017 the new banknotes were put into circulation.
literature
- Snøhetta A / S (Ed.): Snøhetta works. Baden: Lars Müller, 2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-147-0
- Snøhetta A / S (Ed.): Conditions: Snøhetta; architecture, interior, landscape (Cover: Snøhetta: Change! ). Baden: Lars Müller, 2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-118-0
- Craig Dykers (text), Kristin Feireiss et al. (Ed.): Snøhetta (catalog for the exhibition October 18 - December 5, 1999, Galerie Aedes West). Berlin: Galerie Aedes West 1999
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ European Architecture Prize for Norwegians ( Memento from September 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Kleine Zeitung , April 29, 2009
- ↑ Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Om KHiB: Nytt bygg for Kunst- og design- høgskolen i Bergen. Retrieved April 2, 2014 (Norwegian).