Snøhetta (company)

Snøhetta Arkitektur og Landskap A / S ( international notation also Snoehetta; translated: Snow cap architecture and landscape ) is a Norwegian / American office for architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture and design, with headquarters in Oslo (Norway ) and another branch in New York City (USA).

Named after the Norwegian mountain Snøhetta office was founded in 1989 by the Norwegian Kjetil Thorsen along with the Americans Craig Dykers, the Austrian Christoph Kapeller and others.

Office

After numerous changes in the composition and restructuring 1989-2006 are now the two main owners Craig and Kjetil Thorsen Dykers. Other agency partners are the architect Ole Gustavsen ( also the managing director of the office ), Robert Greenwood and Tarald Lundevall, and the landscape architect Jenny B. Osuldsen. In Snøhetta around 90 planners are concerned with projects in Europe, Asia and America. ( Information current as of February 2008)

Kietil Trædal Thorsen was born in Haugesund on the Norwegian island Karmøy 1958. After several years of early stays in Germany ( he spent the first three years of school in Essen ), then in England ( Art- O -level ), he studied architecture at the Technical University of Graz ( Austria ). 1985 He was in Oslo independently and in 1987 was co-founder of the office Snøhetta and has since participated in many respects with all projects, especially in the design area, where he was responsible for numerous prizes at competitions and awards for public buildings in Europe and responsible world, including the Art Museum in Lillehammer, the new library in Alexandria, and the new Opera House in Oslo. Thorsen founded the leading Finnish Architecture Gallery Galleri Rome in 1986. He was a member of the Norwegian Architecture Association and active in the Competition Commission. In addition, Thorsen was already a member of the jury in several European competitions and represented in many international architectural exhibitions. In 2004 he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Innsbruck, where he, together with Patrik Schumacher from Zaha Hadid Architects architectural firm the "Institute for Experimental Architektur.Hochbau " headed until June 2008.

Craig Edward Dykers was born in 1961 in Frankfurt am Main and lived for many years in both Europe and North America. When he had first started a medical and art studies, he graduated from the University of Texas a bachelor's degree in architecture. He then worked in Texas and California. He was co-founder of Snøhetta in 1989 in Norway, 2004, the U.S. branch in New York and involved in several key projects of the office, such as the Alexandria library, the new Norwegian Opera in Oslo and the WTC Memorial Museum, also eg at Lillehammer Art Museum and the Embassy of Norway in Berlin. Craig was a member of the Norwegian Association for Architecture, the American Institute of Architects ( AIA) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK. At the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Oslo, he was co - investigator and Diploma at City College of New York " Distinguished Professor " ( honorary professor ). He has given numerous lectures and presentations in Europe, Asia and America. In addition, he received many orders to cooperate in art installations in public space, their major focus was often on the light of the context, nature and the human scale.

Ole Gustavsen was born in Holme beach and has professional experience in the fields of advertising and architecture. For Snøhetta he came in 1994., Where he was instrumental in the development of the interior design of the new building library in Alexandria. He was appointed Managing Director in 1996. Under his leadership, Snøhetta won the 2002 award for the "Office Strategy of the Year ". Gustavsen also gives talks and presents exhibitions together. In addition to its function in the management team, he is active in the areas of acquisition and development of project orders.

The office emphasizes a collaborative design work in a wide interdisciplinary team with a flat hierarchy, rather than by fixed architecture on individuals. Model is also the intense consideration of the relationships between architecture and the surrounding landscape and matching possible, all existing in the respective project environment stakeholders ( " negotiated architecture", " negotiated architecture ").

Awards

In 2004, a firm Snøhetta an Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 2005 Norsk Form Design Award, 2008 by the Norwegian Parliament ( Storting ) awarded Peer Gynt price. In 2009 she received the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture for the building of the National Opera and Ballet House in Oslo.

Buildings and projects (selection)

• The Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt was planned on behalf of UNESCO by the architectural firm Snøhetta in collaboration with the Egyptian office for structural engineering Hamza Associates (Cairo ) after the small, hitherto virtually unknown and successful in any competitions Office 1989 sensational the advertised international competition under 526 had gained participants. The design of the interior is from Snøhetta. The building was opened on 16 October 2002. The total area of the building is 45,000 square meters, the construction costs amounted to 250 million U.S. dollars. The library was designed for a maximum of 8 million volumes. Awarded the Norwegian Architecture Prize " Diploma of AC Houen fund". The competition victory of the office Snøhetta not only brought him in subsequent years the international break, but the Norwegian architectural scene a total great deal of attention.
• The Oslo Opera House, the home of the Norwegian Opera, was built according to international competition from 2004 and opened on 12 April 2008. The building is considered to be the largest ever Norwegian cultural project of the postwar period. The construction costs amounted to approximately 520 million euros. Project: Tarald Lundevall
• Norwegian Embassy in Berlin, with a 15 -meter-high, 120 -ton and 900 million year old granite plate on the front, 1999
• Turner Contemporary, a museum in Margate, England ( unrealized design ). Although the Working Group Snøhetta / Steven Spence had won in November 2001, the advertised competition, rejected the building owner, the from Kent County Council, due to massive increases in construction cost estimates, the realization of the winning design in February 2002 and transferred the further processing of the planning in the summer of 2006, instead the British architect David Chipperfield.
• Lillehammer Art Museum ( as the official art contribution to the XVII. Winter Olympics 1994), Lillehammer, Norway, 1993/94
• Cultural Center at the World Trade Center Memorial complex as a memorial - building of the " Ground Zero ", ie the schuttberäumten surface of the destroyed on September 11, 2001 World Trade Center. The contract for the " WTC Cultural Center " includes a visitor center, the " International Freedom Center " and the " Drawing Center " (in progress, completion scheduled for 2009 )
• Petter Dass Museum in Alstahaug, Norway, built 2004-2007
• Construction of the new art and design school Mountains ( Art -og designhøgskolen i Bergen, KHiB ) in Bergen, Norway; the competition design was awarded the 2005 1st prize, along with Tonje Værdal Frydenlund (in progress; completion is expected in 2017)
• Summer pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery in London, England ( Kjetil Thorsen in collaboration with Olafur Eliasson ), 2007
• Ras Al Khaimah Convention and Exhibition Centre: building complex, convention center, exhibition halls, shopping malls and two luxury hotels in the " input" of Ra's al -Khaimah, the capital of the Emirates of the United Arab Emirates; Prince Saud bin Saqr client is al - Qasimi, the fourth eldest son of Sheikh Saqr bin Muhammad al - Qasimi.
• City Hall of Hamar, Norway
• " Tubaloon " ( a concert bowl after the inflatable principle as the main stage at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival ) in Kongsberg, Norway
• Fishing in Karmøy, Norway, 1998/99
• Cultural center of the municipality of Bærum Association in Sandvika, Norway, 2003
• Department of Neurobiology at the University of the Mediterranean Aix -Marseille II in Luminy, 2004 ( draft, not realized)
• Dandelion House (Norwegian: Løvetannhus, "Dandelion House " ): House prototype of modular design, London and Norway, 2005
• Urban development Umeå, Sweden ("city between the bridges " ), 2005
• Juma Al Majid Heritage and Culture Centre ( Cultural Center and Library ), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Kansai -kan (second seat of the National Assembly Library in the Kyoto Prefecture ), Japan, 1997 ( draft; 2nd place in an open international competition )
• King Fahad National Library ( Saudi Arabian National Library ), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1999 ( draft; 2nd place in an invited international competition )
• Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej ( Museum of Modern Art), Warsaw, Poland ( competition design, received an award, but no front placement)
• Darat King Abdullah II (House of Performing Arts), Amman, Jordan, 2008 ( invitation design for limited competition, 3rd prize)