In 2003, MVRDV (NL) / a-lab (NO) / Dark architects (NO), won the competition for Oslo’s new waterfront development along Bjørvika with the design of the “BJØRVIKA BARCODE” for Oslo S Utvikling (OSU). a-lab has built the first building…

In the open international competition for the planning and design of a museum complex for the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design at Vestbane in Oslo, Norway the jury has selected three winners:1st prize: #164 Forum Artis: Kleihues and Schuwerk Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH (Naples, Berlin)2nd prize: #147 Urban…

Last week, Bustler already featured two winners of three Norwegian sites for the EUROPAN 2010 contest: Vardø and Oslo. The proposal ‘Proscenium’ by Greek studio Point Supreme Architects, in collaboration with Alex Gerousis, is the winner of the third…

The ‘Shuffle’ proposal by young Norwegian Eriksen Skajaa Architects for the revitalization of Oslo’s Haugerud suburb has recently won the EUROPAN 10 contest for Oslo, Norway. The project is exploring low rise/high density urban planning as a way to reinforce local identity…

Langdon Reis Architects with Kelly Doran and Louis Hall have won EUROPAN 10 with a scheme for Vardø, Norway. The theme of the competition was “inventing urbanity: regeneration, revitalization, colonization”, and entrants were asked to produce a plan for sustainable development.

Kristin Jarmund Architects in collaboration with C. F. Møller Architects, has recently won a major competition to design a spectacular new landmark project in the city of Oslo, for the client KLP Eiendom AS, one of Norway’s largest property investors. The…

Danish architectural company schmidt hammer lassen architects has won a 52,863 m2 mixed-use complex “Konstitucijos Avenue 21” in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. The project is the result of a successful collaboration with Oslo-based Lund+Slaatto Architects, a strategic partner of schmidt hammer…

In September 2007, Copenhagen/Bussels/Oslo-based office Julien de Smedt Architects was named the winner of the international competition for a new Holmenkollen ski jump in Norway‘s capitol Oslo (previously on Bustler). As construction work on site is well on its way (see…

In late March of 2009, the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs announced an open international planning and design competition to initiate the planning of a new, collective building complex to house the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design on the site of…

The Knut Hamsun Center, located in Hamarøy, Norway and designed by Steven Holl Architects, will open to the public on August 4, 2009 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Knut Hamsun’s birth. Dedicated to Norway’s most inventive twentieth-century writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize in…