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…

The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe announced today that the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Oslo, Norway by Snøhetta is the winner of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2009.

Last week, Bustler reported on the winners of the international competition for the new Munch Area in Oslo’s waterfront neighborhood Bjørvika. The proposal “Yin Yang” by New York-based architecture firm REX won the second prize in this competition (together with the proposal “Girls on the Bridge”…

Just a few days ago, Bustler reported on the prestigious international competition for the new Munch Museum and Deichman Library building in Oslo. The competition results have now been officially announced: Spanish Herreros Arquitectos received the first price in the Munch Area competition with their proposal ”Lambda”.…

Since March 12, the City of Oslo exhibits the 40 contributions for the Munch Area and the Deichman Axis architecture competition (previously on Bustler). The list of invited architects includes names like Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, and Foreign Office Architects. Among the prequalified architects are…

Young Danish architects Cornelius + Vöge have won a large international competition for a new church building in Norway. From 123 competing proposals from all over Europe, their project was announced as the winner. The church is located…

Just a few days ago, we reported on drdharchitects’s winning proposal in the international competition to design a new library and concert hall in Bodø, Norway. Here is another exciting proposal for Bodø‘s new cultural center that made it into the shortlist, by London-based

London-based drdharchitects has won first place in the international competition to design a new library and concert hall in Bodø, Norway. The Bodø Kulturhus and Library will consist of two public buildings; a new city library (5,500m²) and a three-auditorium concert hall (7,350m²), creating a new cultural center…

Oslo-based a-lab have been commissioned to design the new Oslo office for the Norwegian oil company StatoilHydro. a-lab’s proposal was chosen from 40 different competition entries. The office building will be modern, flexible and environmentally friendly, and it will be ready for occupation in autumn 2012. …