Contemporary Norwegian Architecture Practice, Oslo
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Snøhetta Building News - 2009
University of The Gambia - New Campus, Africa
2009-
University of The Gambia
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 for Knowledge and Culture, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
On site: Nov 2008
image : MIR
King Abdulaziz Library
Oslo Operahouse Building, Norway
2008
photo : Statsbygg
Oslo Operahouse
Hotel Brosundet, Ålesund, Norway
2008
photograph : Marte Garmann Johnsen
Hotel Brosundet
Petter Dass Museum, Alstaharg, Norway
2007
picture from Snøhetta
Petter Dass Museum
Kivik Art Centre pavilion, Sweden
2008
photo from Snøhetta
Kivik Art Centre
The Tubaloon, Kirketorget, Kongsberg, Norway
2006
photo : Robert Sannes
Kongsberg Jazz Festival Pavilion
Landscape / Pavilion, Eggum, Norway
2007
image from Snøhetta
Eggum Norway
Tromsø Hotel, Norway
images : Placebo Effects
Snohetta design : Serpentine Pavilion 2007
Kjetil Thorsen of Snøhetta + artist Oliafur Eliasson
Dandelion House - housing prototypes unveiled (Norway / London)
Ground Zero Drawing Center, New York, USA
proposal, with designs by Weisz + Yoes Architecture
Brain Research institute, Luminy University, nr Cassis, France
2004
Institute of Neurobiology for the Mediterranean - proposal, Marseilles
Major Snohetta Building
Bibliotheca Alexandrina / Alexandria Library, Egypt
2002
Snohetta Architects with Hamza Associates, Cairo
photo from Snøhetta
Bibliotheca Alexandrina : Open competition, 1st prize - 1989
Key Snohetta Architects' Project
Freedom Tower - Site of World Trade Center
Ground Zero, Lower Manhattan
2004-
Daniel Libeskind Architects + David Childs of SOM Architects
Controversial towers to replace the New York World Trade Centre skyscrapers lost in 2001. The main Freedom Tower skyscraper by Libeskind was to be a significant number of feet high - 1,776 feet - to mark a key American date in history - United States Year of Independence; the building was largely handed over to architect David Childs. Designed to be the tallest tower in the world for the site leaseholder - real estate developer Larry Silverstein. The angular design is typical for Libeskind but here echoes the Statue of Liberty. A Snohetta building was also due to appear but the situation is in a state of flux, more online soon - 2006.
Another New York building by Daniel Libeskind is his condominium tower in Union City, New Jersey.
Gehry Partners LLP and Snøhetta were selected as architects for the World Trade Center cultural complex by Lower Manhattan Development Corporation in Dec 2004: lower down this page
World Trade Centre - New Museum Complex
Ground Zero
2006?
Snohetta, Architects
International Freedom Centre + Drawing Centre. Also named the WTC Cultural Center. Snøhetta Architects became well known with their Alexandria library in Egypt which won a major architecture competition.
Practice Information
Studio based in Oslo, Norway
Office led by Kjetil Thorsen
Snohetta have an architects office in New York based at 50 Broad St
Snohetta Buildings
Bergen National Academy of the Arts (KHiB)
Competition win
New Norwegian National Opera House
Oslo, Bjørvika, Norway
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Oslo Operahouse building
Bærum Cultural Centre, Sandvika, Norway
2003
for Bærum Kommune
Karmøy Fishing Museum, Karmøy, Norway
1998
for Stiftelsen Karmøy
Lillehammer Olympic Art Museum, Lillehammer, Norway
1993
Invited Competition, 1st prize
$7m
Dubai Cultural Heritage Centre, Dubai, UAE
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Norwegian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
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Hamar Town Hall, Norway
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Institute for Neurobiology, Marseille, France
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KHIB - National Academy of the Arts, Bergen, Norway
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Snohetta Project postponed / annulled
Turner Contemporary, Margate, England, UK
Turner Contemporary Art Gallery proposal abandoned by Client early 2006
for Kent County Council
£18m
announcement in 2005 that this project stopped due to cost concerns
Snohetta Architecture Competition Entries
Kansai-Kan Library, Japan
1997
Open international competition, 2nd prize
King Fahad National Library, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1999
Invited competition, 2nd prize
Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Scotland
Won by Ted Cullinan Architects
Visitor Gateway Shortlist of ten announced May 2003 included Snohetta
Modern Architects I New York Buildings I Architecture Competition
World Architecture : e-architect - key buildings across the globe
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