Norwegian design studio Kvistad recently completed a major upgrade of Bakken & Bæck’s HQ office in Oslo. The unconventional office interior is an union of spaceage, futurism and friendly scandinavian forms. A lot of ideas are taken from spacefaring vessels. All floors, walls and ceiling are painted in the same color, to give a feeling that everything is molded in the same material. Some rooms have carpets on floors expanding to cover the walls, suitable for a zero-gravity environment. Many of the details are supported by thin lines to resemble weightlessness.
The project is a transformation and refurbishment of a listed office building from 1892. The front building toward the street is completely rehabilitated, and the wings surrounding the inner courtyard are demolished and replaced with a new structure. The courtyard is enclosed in the new building as a glass covered interior atrium, that connect the old and the new building and admit daylight into the office spaces. All functions are accessed via the large, brass clad main stair that stretches from the underground cafeteria to the roof terrace.
Article source: JARMUND/VIGSNÆS AS ARKITEKTER MNAL
The inner east municipality of Oslo is a diverse and urban area called Gamlebyen (old town). The area is the oldest parts of Oslo dating back to medieval ages. The area has been in decline for large parts of the twentieth century, but is now experiencing an upturn in popularity and gentrification.
The project is a 7- storey building with 12 apartments on a hill in Iladalen with an exclusive rooftop garden for all the residents. The site is open and the apartments will have a view over the valley and/ or south towards the Oslo Fjord. The building adjoins the gable on an unfinished building and is forming a completion on the quarter at the junction Vøyensvingen and Claus Riis gate, and completes in this way the neighborhood. For the residents there will be a common kitchen on the roof, in affiliation to the roof garden. On the ground floor it will be benches and art for the public, integrated into the building.
Zaha Hadid Architects and A_Lab have won the architectural competition to design the Fornbuporten and Fornebu Senter stations, two of the six stations planned for the new Fornebubanen metro line in Oslo.
One of Europe’s fastest growing cities, Oslo’s population has increased to more than a million people living within its urban area defined by forests and mountains to the north, east and west, and by the Oslofjord to the south.
Aesop opened its second Norwegian signature store, in the vibrant retail and residential district of Majorstuen, Oslo. Created in collaboration with integrated design and architecture practice Snøhetta, the space is a handsome complement to its Prinsens Gate sibling, conceived by the same firm.
A large family table measuring 1.5 x 3.0 m forms the center of the apartment. This open, double-height space is dominated by the wide outlook to the treetops outside, where well accustomed squirrels and birds frequently show up. The dimensions of the table alone allow family members to do be occupied with different activities around the same table – chatting, eating, doing homework – without interfering with each other, in the same social situation.
Article source: Haptic Architects and Nordic – Office of Architecture
Norwegian practices Haptic Architects and Nordic – Office of Architecture have today unveiled their winning designs for the masterplan of Oslo Airport City (OAC), a new model for a sustainable smart city located adjacent to Oslo Airport.
A unanimous jury granted the project «Nordic Light» winner of the invited planning and architecture competition for the design proposal of «Fjordporten Oslo S»
Winner
The winning team behind the project «Nordic Light» consists of Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter AS
in collaboration with C.F Møller Arkitekter
Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure,
Baugrundinstitut Franke-Meißner und Partner, GMBH and Transsolar Climate Engineering
The challenge was extreme: What to do with an urban space which is 10 x 90 metres in area, with minimal sunlight and a requirement of 200 bicycle parking places? This strip of city floor should give pedestrians (and cyclists!) a pleasant experience and, at the same time, provide a suitable entrance to the commercial areas on ground floor level
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