Snøhetta Building News:

Dandelion House - housing prototypes unveiled (Norway / London)

Proposed Ground Zero Drawing Center relocated, with designs by Weisz + Yoes Architecture

Petter Dass Museum, Alstaharg, northern Norway
2007

Turner Contemporary, Margate: proposal abandoned by Client early 2006

Snohetta Architects : Serpentine Pavilion 2007
Kjetil Thorsen of Snøhetta + artist Oliafur Eliasson

Brain Research institute, Luminy University, nr Cassis, France
2004
Institute of Neurobiology for the Mediterranean - proposal, Marseilles


Key Snohetta Building:

Bibliotheca Alexandrina / Alexandria Library, Egypt
2001/02
Great Library: Open international design competition winners, 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.

Snohetta have an architects office in New York based at 50 Broad St




Snohetta: Architecture Competition

One design competition Snohetta didn't win was for the Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, won by Ted Cullinan Architects. Visitor Gateway Shortlist of ten announced May 2003 included Snohetta. Final shortlist was Ted Cullinan, Michael Hopkins, Richard Murphy and Wilkinson Eyre.


Current Snohetta Projects / Buildings:

Kongsberg Jazz Festival Main Stage
2006
inflatable tension membrane structure

Bergen National Academy of the Arts (KHiB)
Competition win


Snohetta Buildings:

Bibliotheca Alexandrina / Alexandria Library
Egypt
2002
$212m Research Library connected to the University
Open competetion, 1st prize
for UNESCO, Arab Republic of Egypt
80,000 sqm
Snohetta Architects with Hamza Associates, Cairo
project incl. furniture design for the Alexandria library

New Norwegian National Opera House
Oslo, Bjørvika, Norway
-

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

Norwegian Embassy
Berlin, Germany

Hamar Town Hall
Norway

Institute for Neurobiology
Marseille, France

KHIB - National Academy of the Arts
Bergen, Norway

Snohetta Project that looks like it has been postponed / annulled:
Turner Contemporary : Art Gallery
Margate, England
for Kent County Council
£18m
announcement in 2005 that this project may be 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

New York Architects

New York Skyscrapers

New York Architecture

Comments or building suggestions / photos for the Snohetta Architecture pages welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk

Architecture Competition



Modern Architects

World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

Snohetta Architects - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt

Snøhetta Architects - Website: www.snoarc.no