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Architecture firm based in Oslo and New York
Snøhetta AS
Company type
Aksjeselskap Industry Founded 1989 Founders Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, Craig Edward Dykers Headquarters , Number of locations
Oslo, New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Adelaide, Innsbruck, and San Francisco
[1] Number of employees
240
Website
www.snohetta.com
Snøhetta (Norwegian pronunciation:
[ˈsnø̀ːˌhɛtːɑ] ) is a Norwegian architectural firm headquartered in
Oslo ,
Norway .
[2]
Background
The company was formed in 1987 by Norwegian, Kjetil Thorsen, and a group of young architects. They named it Snøhetta after
the tallest mountain in the
Dovrefjell National Park .
[3] In 1989 they joined forces with New York architect, Craig Dykers, to enter the competition to design a replacement for the
Library of Alexandria (the winning design for
Bibliotheca Alexandrina wasn't completed until 2001).
[3]
Awards
Snøhetta has received the World Architecture Award for the
Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the
Oslo Opera House , and the
Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
[4] Since its completion in 2008, the Oslo Opera House has also been awarded the
Mies van der Rohe Award ,
[5] the EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association) Great Places Award, the
European Prize for Urban Public Space ,
[6] In 2010, through
Kjetil Trædal Thorsen ’s lead, Snøhetta’s works’ coherence with their environment was awarded the
Global Award for Sustainable Architecture , both from an international point of view, for their large scale projects, and at a local, small projects scale.
[7]
[8]
Notable works
Further reading
References
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"About" . snohetta.com . Retrieved 29 February 2020 .
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"10 Unusual Libraries From Around the World" . Mental Floss . 2022-12-27. Retrieved 2023-01-06 .
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b
c Owen, David (January 14, 2013).
"The Psychology of Space" . The New Yorker . Retrieved January 28, 2023 .
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"Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2004" . Architecture & Urbanism Magazine . Autumn/Winter 2005 (78/79).
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"European Union Prize - Jury Proceedings" . Retrieved 16 October 2015 . [
permanent dead link ]
^ Hannema, Kirsten (1 May 2010).
"European Prize for Urban Public Space" . A10 . Archived from
the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2015 .
^ Contal, Marie-Hélène; Revedin, Jana (October 2011). Sustainable design II, Towards a new ethics for architecture and the city . Paris: Actes Sud.
ISBN
978-2-330-00085-1 .
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"Global Award for Sustainable Architecture" . Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine . Retrieved 2020-06-08 .
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"Ryerson University Student Learning Centre / Zeidler Partnership Architects + Snøhetta" . Arch Daily . 2015-08-10. Retrieved 2017-04-01 . Designed by the architectural team of Zeidler and Snøhetta.
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"King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture (Ithra) An arena for culture and learning" . snohetta.com/projects . Retrieved 2024-03-22 .
^ John King (2010-07-21).
"Snøhetta to design SFMOMA's vast new wing" . San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from
the original on 2010-07-23.
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"Lascaux IV International Centre for Cave Art" . official website . Retrieved 2019-08-17 .
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"Lascaux IV: The International Centre for Cave Art" . snohetta.com/projects . Retrieved 2019-08-17 .
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"Snøhetta's Times Square" .
Domus . April 20, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2023 .
^ Rosenfield, Karissa (2014-09-24).
"Snøhetta Unveils Final Design for Calgary's New Central Library" . ArchDaily . Retrieved 2018-07-30 .
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"Europe's first underwater restaurant" . CNN . 2017-10-23. Retrieved 2018-04-11 .
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"Snohetta's Wolfe Center for the Arts gives Bowling Green State University a new point of pride" . Blog.cleveland.com . 11 March 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2018 .
^ Gebbia, Charles (23 May 2023).
"Snøhetta's shading canopy opens at Blanton Museum of Art" . The Architect’s Newspaper .
^ Fløgstad, Kjartan (2004). SNØHETTA Hus som vil meg hysa . Oslo, Norway: Samlaget.
ISBN
9788252161083 .
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