Author Archive
Nordic Artists’ Centre – Dale, Norway
Building: Nordic Artists’ Centre
Location: Dale, Norway
Completion Date: 1998
Architect: Haga and Grov with Knut Hjeitnes and Ivar Egge in association
AE Interests: daylighting, five individual studios, five individual guest houses
Mortuary at Asker Crematorium – Asker, Norway
Building: Mortuary at Asker Crematorium
Location: Asker, Norway
Completion Date: 2000
Architect: Carl-Viggo Holmebakk
AE Interests: load-bearing masonry construction, interior brick surfaces
Two Houses at Sølvberget – Stavanger, Norway
Building: Two Houses at Sølvberget
Location: Stavanger, Norway
Completion Date: 2000
Architect: Helen & Hard
Client: Svendsen & Stangeland
AE Interests: simple wood structured wall as membrane
Tango Ecological Housing – Malmo, Sweden
Building: Tango Ecological Housing
Location: Malmo, Sweden
Completion Date: 2003
Architect: Moon Rubie Yudell Architects & Planners
AE Interests: solar heating, wind power
Nordic Watercolour Museum – Skärhamn, Sweden
Building: Nordic Watercolour Museum
Location: Skärhamn, Sweden
Completion Date: 2000
Architect: Studio Gron
AE Interests: outer facades are red wood paneling, the inside walls around the exhibition spaces and the archives, and the floor decks are of concrete to ensure a stable indoor climate
Trädgår’n Restaurant – Göteborg, Sweden
Building: Trädgår’n Restaurant
Location: Göteborg, Sweden
Completion Date: 1998
Architect: Studio Gron
Landscape Architect: Snøhetta
AE Interests: relatively massive two-story building against the road to provide a sound and pollution barrier, The objective was to form a veranda along the whole of this wall (and projecting beyond its ends). Only 3.5m wide, the veranda does not seem at pinched, for its inner wall is glass, and the outer one is an open rectangular lattice screen.
Icehotel – Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
Building: Icehotel
Location: Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
Completed: since 1994
Architect: Ake Larsson
AE Interests: uses all snow from the nearby Torne River, then the snow is sprayed on huge steel frames and allowed to freeze. After a couple of days, the forms are removed, leaving a maze of free-standing corridors of snow. The hotel is built with snice (has a snow-like appearance but ice-like physical characteristics), which takes the place of mortar in a traditional brick-built hotel.
