Architecture & Design

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, have selected Snøhetta to work with museum on design of expansion. The Norwegian architecture Firm joins team to expand and enhance museum facilities and visitor experience. Read more

The Exhibition "SNØHETTA, architecture – landscape – interior" at IIT College of Architecture in Chicago from May 20th through June 4th. Opening reception on Thursday May 20th at 5 pm, and lecture By Snøhetta's Craig Dykers on Tuesday May 25th at 12 noon. Read more

In 2010, the hottest Norwegian export is not petroleum or fish…it’s design. Read more

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present the fourth exhibition in the National Design Triennial series in spring 2010. “Why Design Now?” will be on view from May 14 through Jan. 9, 2011, and will explore the work of designers addressing human and environmental problems across many fields of design. Read more

The International Contemporary Furniture Fair will be held in New York City at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on May 15-18. On May 18th, the fair will be open to the general public from 10am to 4pm. Read more

You can see works by Norwegian Jewelry artists Kathrine Lindman on display at Park Avenue Armory from April 16 to April 19 in New York. One of her works was purchased by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture as a gift to Michelle Obama when she was in Oslo. Read more

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

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

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