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Snohetta - Building News - 2011
Craig Dykers to chair 2012 Steedman Competition
$50,000 prize for young architects among largest U.S. competition awards
Craig Dykers is the co-founder of the architecture firm Snøhetta. This spring, Dykers will serve as the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, where he will chair the 2012 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition jury.
Internationally acclaimed architect Craig Dykers will chair the jury for Washington University in St. Louis’ 2012 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition. Dykers is co-founder of Snøhetta, an architecture, landscape architecture and interior design firm with offices in Oslo, Norway, and New York City. Major projects include design of Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo and the recently opened National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the former World Trade Center site in New York.
The Steedman Competition, sponsored biennially by the College of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, is open to young architects from around the world. Winners receive a cash prize to support study and research abroad. For 2012, the first place award will be $50,000 — up from $30,000 in 2010 — making it one of the largest competition prizes in the United States.
Dykers, who will serve as the Sam Fox School’s Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture this spring, will be joined on the Steedman jury by Brad Cloepfil, principal of Allied Works Architecture in Portland and New York; and by Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen, principals of UrbanLab of Chicago.
Registration for the competition will begin Jan. 16, 2012. The program will be announced Feb. 17, with competition entries due April 2.
Applicants must be graduates of an accredited school of architecture, and must currently be employed in — or have completed at least one year of practical experience in — the office of a practicing architect. Applicants are eligible to compete for up to eight years after receipt of their professional degrees, regardless of age.
For more information or for registration materials, visit steedmancompetition.com.
Maggie’s Aberdeen, north east Scotland, UK

picture : Snøhetta
Maggie’s Aberdeen
Initial design concept released to coincide with the planning application being submitted to Aberdeen City Council. The council will now spent 8-12 weeks deliberating over the design of the Maggie’s Centre at the Foresterhill site of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary before coming to a decision on granting permission.
SFMOMA Expansion, San Francisco, CA, USA
Snøhetta / SFMOMA

image © Snøhetta
SFMOMA Expansion
Designs unveied by Snøhetta of proposal. Snøhetta were selected in July 2010 to collaborate with SFMOMA to design the expansion.
SFMOMA are planning a major expansion to support the continuing development of their collections, programs, and audiences and to showcase their expanded permanent collection, including the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, one of the finest collections of modern and contemporary art in the world, and gifts to the museum through the recent Collections Campaign.
stillspotting nyc : Manhattan, NYC, USA
To a Great City by Arvo Pärt and Snøhetta

photo © Snøhetta 2011
Guggenheim Exhibition Lower Manhattan
Composer Arvo Pärt and Architects Snøhetta Collaborate for Guggenheim Exhibition in Lower Manhattan
Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion - Tverrfjellhytta, Norway
Snøhetta

photograph : Klaas Van Ommeren
Snøhetta : Latest design
Ryerson Student Learning Centre, Toronto, Canada
Snøhetta / Zeidler Partnership Architects

picture from Ryerson University
Ryerson Student Learning Centre
Snohetta - Norwegian Design Studio

photo from Snøhetta
Snøhetta are the most famous Norwegian architects practice in the world. They came to notice sepcifically with their stunning Alexandria Library in Egypt (photo above), won in competition. Since then they have developed a strong pedigree, eschweing a house style for thoughtful, dynamic designs. They show no sign of reducing quality, which often happens as practices grow larger.
Snøhetta Building News - 2010
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA

photograph © Andrew McRae
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Expansion
V&A at Dundee, Scotland
Snøhetta : V&A at Dundee shortlist
The Wolfe Center for the Arts - on site, Apr 2010
Snøhetta exhibition - 4 Feb - 3 Apr 2010 @ Scandinavia House, Manhattan, NY, USA
National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion, New York, USA

picture : Squared Design Lab
September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion
Mies van der Rohe Award Winner, 2009
The Norwegian Opera & Ballet, Oslo, Norway
Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, Tarald Lundevall, Craig Dykers / Snøhetta

picture : Jens Passoth
Snøhetta Building News - 2008
King Abdulaziz Center, Saudi Arabia
On site: Nov 2008

image : MIR
King Abdulaziz Library, Dhahran
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Oslo Operahouse Building, Norway
2008

photo : Statsbygg
Oslo Operahouse
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Hotel Brosundet, Ålesund, Norway
2008

photograph : Marte Garmann Johnsen
Hotel Brosundet
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Petter Dass Museum, Alstaharg, Norway
2007

picture from Snøhetta
Petter Dass Museum Building
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Kivik Art Centre pavilion, Sweden
2008

photo from Snøhetta
Kivik Art Centre Building
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The Tubaloon, Kongsberg, Norway
2006

photo : Robert Sannes
Kongsberg Jazz Festival Pavilion
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Landscape / Pavilion, Eggum, Norway
2007

image from Snøhetta
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Scandinavian Embassies, Berlin, Germany
1999

photo © Adrian Welch
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Snohetta design : Serpentine Pavilion 2007 - Kjetil Thorsen of Snøhetta + Oliafur Eliasson
Major Snohetta Building
Bibliotheca Alexandrina / Alexandria Library, Egypt
2002
Snohetta Architects with Hamza Associates, Cairo

photo from Snøhetta
Bibliotheca Alexandrina : Open architecture competition, 1st prize - 1989
Oslo Operahouse building
More Snohetta architecture projects online soon
SFMOMA Expansion, San Francisco, CA, USA
Snøhetta / SFMOMA

image © Snøhetta
SFMOMA Expansion
Designs unveied in Jun 2011 by Snøhetta of proposal. Snøhetta were selected in July 2010 to collaborate with SFMOMA to design the expansion.
SFMOMA are planning a major expansion to support the continuing development of their collections, programs, and audiences and to showcase their expanded permanent collection, including the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, one of the finest collections of modern and contemporary art in the world, and gifts to the museum through the recent Collections Campaign.
stillspotting nyc : Manhattan, NYC, USA
To a Great City by Arvo Pärt and Snøhetta

photo © Snøhetta 2011
Guggenheim Exhibition Lower Manhattan
Composer Arvo Pärt and Architects Snøhetta Collaborate for Guggenheim Exhibition in Lower Manhattan
Second Edition of stillspotting nyc Series Exploring Stillness and Quiet in Urban Environment
Exhibition: stillspotting nyc: manhattan
To a Great City by Arvo Pärt and Snøhetta
Venue: Five locations around Lower Manhattan starting at Castle Clinton National Monument in Battery Park, across from 17 Battery Place, New York, NY
Dates: September 15-18 and 22-25, 2011
Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion - Tverrfjellhytta, Norway
Snøhetta

photograph : Klaas Van Ommeren
Snøhetta : Latest design
Ryerson Student Learning Centre, Toronto, Canada
Snøhetta / Zeidler Partnership Architects

picture from Ryerson University
Ryerson Student Learning Centre
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Snohetta - Practice Information
Snohetta studio based in Oslo, Norway
Snohetta Architects : further information on this celebrated Norwegian architects studio

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Architect office led by Kjetil Thorsen with Craig Dykers
Snohetta : Norwegian Architects
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