BIG + TNT Nuuk + Ramboll Nuuk + Arkitekti is the winning team to design the new National Gallery of Greenland in the country’s capital Nuuk, among invited proposals totaling 6 Nordic architects.

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…

Completing its trilogy of housing projects in Oerestad with the same client, BIG + green roof contractor Veg Tech receives the award for 8 House’s 1,700 sq m sloping green roof. The Scandinavian Green Roof Association based in Malmo, Sweden awarded the Best Green Roof in Scandinavia at an…

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…

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 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…

Danish practice schmidt hammer lassen architects (SHL Architects) has won an international competition to design “Urban Mediaspace”, the largest public library in Scandinavia.  The €228 ($288) million scheme, located in Aarhus, Denmark, will become a new visual and cultural focal point for the city whilst pioneering the next generation of…

Futuristic Alpine cabins in a Danish suburb. Graphics from floor to ceiling in Hong Kong. An unusual sheet metal stool. And a Norwegian ray of sunshine that plays with your psyche under the table. On February 3, the winners of the Forum AID Awards 2009 were revealed. The Nordic region’s…