Architecture & Design

At the Norwegian Design Day on March 17th 2010, the Norwegian Design Council was happy to be able to present 31 companies and design agencies with the Award for Design Excellence, announce 4 winners of the Young Talent Award and the Design for all award. The most prestigious award of the day, the Honours Award for Design Excellence went to NTNU/Agendum. Read more >

Two years after receiving its first deposits, the seed vault on Svalbard has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world's most diverse repository of crop seeds, the vault's operators announced Thursday. Read more >

Norway offers you a unique student experience and Norwegian institutions of higher education welcome applications sent by qualified students from all over the world. Read more >

The Arctic town of Kirkenes is the hub of regional relations between Norway and Russia. Reiulf Ramstad Architects has made a proposal for the world’s tallest wooden building to be located in Kirkenes. Read more >

The artist Do Ho Suh (South Korea/USA) has won the international competition for the public, outdoor art project for the Government Building Complex with his proposal Grass Roots Square. Read more >

Six architecture firms are finalists for a new, collective building complex to house the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design on the site of the old Railway Station West, Vestbanen, in Oslo. Read more >

Hun ligger (She Lies) by Monica Bonvicini The sculpture that is now under construction and will be placed in the harbour basin in front of the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet in May is an autonomous work that offers a three-dimensional interpretation of Caspar David Friedrich’s painting, Das Eismeer, from 1823–24. Read more >

This year's battle for the Honours Award for Design Excellence provides a good snapshot of the Norwegian business anno 2010: - Energy, offshore, agriculture and education. Read more >

The construction of the wind turbine will take place in Øygarden in Hordaland County, where the new technology will be tested on land over the next two years. The wind turbine will be the world's largest of its kind, with a rotor diameter of 145 metres generating 10 MW (more power than three diesel locomotives). Read more >

On the 22nd of February, JDS Architects hands over the newly constructed Holmenkollen Ski Jump to the Oslo municipality in preparation for the International Ski Federation World Cup Nordic championship (Trial-WC)to be held from the 13th to the 14th of March 2010. Read more >

The history of sports and industrial design are heavily intertwined, and there are several examples of groundbreaking design pushing the boundaries and setting the stage for world records in sports. Read more >

“Juvet is a hotel in which the landscape is not a view but the theme of place.” Said renowned architect and jury member Rafael Viñoly. Juvet Landscape Hotel designed by Norwegian firm Jensen & Skodvin Architects took home the Travel + Leisure 2010 Design Award for Best Small Hotel. Read more >

Contemplating The Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum with Norwegian Architects Snøhetta, Saunders Architecture and Ingar Dragset. Online exhibition and February 12–April 28 at the museum. Read more >

MoMA in New York offers a lecture by esteemed Norwegian civil engineer Tor Ole Olsen on the physical, social and political role that infrastructure plays in marine environments, January 21st at 6pm. Read more >

The Exhibition "SNØHETTA, architecture – landscape – interior" at Scandinavia House through April 24th. Lecture by Craig Dykers, Snøhetta, on Tuesday March 30 at 7 pm. Read more >

Experience the DETOUR exhibition with a guided tour at Parsons in NYC and attend the symposium at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on January 19th. Read more >

The exhibition LOST IN NATURE, on display through Nov 30th, highlights selected work of the energetic, accomplished Oslo-based practice of Jarmund/Vigsnaes (partners Einar Jarmund, Hakon Vigsnaes, Alessandra Kosberg). Read more >

The fashion designers of Moods of Norway, Peder Børresen and Simen Staalnacke, will give an inspiring lecture at the Museum at FIT in New York on October 8th to discuss their ultra-traditional and hyper-Norwegian fashion line, and how their successful marketing strategy allowed them to sell golden tractors around the world. Read more >

On September 16, the Royal Norwegian Embassy will be co-hosting a panel discussion on Norwegian architecture with the Catholic University of America, in Washington D.C.   Read more >

On September 17, the Norwegian Embassy gives you a unique chance to learn more about Norwegian architecture and experience Norwegian cuisine at Ambassador Strommen’s residence in Washington, D.C. Read more >