JDS Architects’ Holmenkollen Ski Jump has been announced as the winner of the 2011 ECCS Structural Steel Design Award today at the ECCS Congress in Potsdam, Germany. The award recognizes outstanding design in steel construction emphasizing the many advantages of steel in construction, production, economy…

Norwegian practice A-lab won the open international ideas competition on climate efficient urban development on Furuset area in Oslo. The project goal is to condense the suburb Furuset i Groruddalen outside Oslo with 2,500 new homes and 1,500 new workspaces, and to reduce CO2 emissions by 50…

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Competition is an inherent mechanism of life in general, a part the evolutionary process of nature, and plays a role in almost all fields of culture. Few disciplines or professions have embraced the competition as vigorously as architecture. There is a widespread belief…

Oslo-based practice ERIKSEN SKAJAA ARCHITECTS was awarded Runner-up in the Man Made Reformulate competition for the Oslo Triennale with their entry Palynopolis, a project proposing Urban Beehives to counteract the decline in biotopes in and around modern cities. The concept was designed in cooperation with Msc. Phd.…

Critically acclaimed architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design firm Snøhetta is the final choice for the 160,000 square foot extension at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. After a shortlist of four firms was announced…

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…

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…

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…

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…