Northern Lights Info: NORWAY — TEXT: JOAKIM SKAJAA, ILLUSTRATION: SYLVAIN TEGROEG FANNY SCHERTZER FANNY
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The far reaches of Norway, stretching from the polar circle to the northern cape at the 71st parallel, and to the Svalbard Islands even further north, is a vast landscape of islands, fjords and mountains. The vernacular architecture of the region’s fishing industry reveals a long and advanced building tradition along the coast. But the north, like many remote areas ILLUSTRATEDJC THE SÁMI PARLIAMENT around the world, has also provided a laboratory for modern architecture BERG MARTIN JAN 16 OF NORWAY (2000) Architect: Stein Halvorsen RØED VILLA HOLMBOE (1988) Address: Avjovargeaidnu 50, Karasjok Architect: Blå Strek arkitekter since the Second World War. Bodø Town Hall (1962) 11 Info: www.sh-arkitekter.no Address: Conrad Holmboes vei 13, 1 Architect: Gudolf Blakstad Tromsø and Herman Munthe-Kaas Info: www.bluearchitecture.com Address: Gjerdåsveien 2, Bodø VEGAR MOEN VEGAR GRUNNFØR BICYCLE SHELTER (2004) 6 Architect: 70° Nord Address: Austvågøy, Lofoten Info: www.70n.no INGEBJØRG HAGE BO I NORD RESIDENTIAL AREA BODØ CULTURAL QUARTER (2014) (1988 – 1990) Architect: DRDH Architects 12 2 Architect: Various architects Address: Kvartal 100 – 105, Bodø Address: Olsgårdvegen 17, Tromsø Northern lights Info: www.drdharchitects.co.uk NORWAY — TEXT: JOAKIM SKAJAA, ILLUSTRATION: SYLVAIN TEGROEG FANNY SCHERTZER FANNY This has especially been the case in the post-war pe- This period of rebuilding, spanning from the war’s different modes of practice. Knowledge of local con- ANDERSEN TORBJØRN VADSØ CHURCH (1954 – 1958) riod, but also in more recent decades when the relative immediate aftermath to the late 1960s, also provided ditions, both physical and social, were used as Architect: Magnus Poulsson GRATANGEN CHURCH (1971) 17 distance from the mainstream of the country’s south- a generation of architects the possibility to build a a starting point. Collaboration and participatory Address: Amtmannsgt 1B, Vadsø 7 Architect: Oskar Norderval ern parts has provided a clean slate for different, more large number of churches, town halls, schools, swim- processes were important to both co-housing proj- Address: Årstein, Gratangen concentrated discussions. Right now, the landscape ming complexes, cultural centres and other public ects and urban planning processes. Knut Eirik Dal NILS PETTERNILS DALE is shifting and the northern areas are taking a more buildings. Some, like Jan Inge Hovig, assembled and Nils Mjåland of Blå Strek are significant as pre- HOLMSTAD GUNNAR central position with their proximity to large-scale a substantial oeuvre in just a few years. In the early decessors for later offices like 70° Nord and Dahl & SVALBARD SCIENCE CENTRE (2005) climatic and economic developments in the Arctic. 1950s, pre-war national modernism, where an inter- Uhre, and Tromsø is this era’s undeniable centre. 13 Architect: Jarmund Vigsnæs Architects national style mixes with hints of local folklore, is In a kind of late post-modern period, a more for- Address: Hilmar Rekstens vei, The cities and villages of northern Norway were Longyearbyen heavily impacted by the war, both in its early days, apparent, while in the ’60s a more simple international mal approach to architecture has been developed. Info: www.jva.no when the key port city of Narvik was contested, and style took its place. Magnus Poulsson represents the Associations with indigenous culture and natural towards the war’s end. Many cities were completely pre-war generation, while Jan Inge Hovig is a repre- phenomena (icebergs, ice sheets and the Northern destroyed, making planning for a complete recon- sentative of the post-war generation. The latter Lights) are taken as starting points for architectural struction necessary. This effort, called the ‘Planning finished his architectural education in 1946 and went forms. More recently, the northern part of Norway of Burned Places’, is the reason many of these small on to hold the position of city architect in Narvik, has experienced a major shift, from remote outpost JMA GUNNAR HOLMSTAD GUNNAR cities and villages on the northern edge of Europe heading the rebuilding there from 1947 to 1950. to the centre of rapid transformation. This change is TROMSDALEN CHURCH (1965) SALT ART AND ARCHITECTURE are not organically grown settlements but classically Through the 1980s and early ’90s, a series of in- fuelled by the discovery and exploration of energy Architect: Jan Inge Hovig FESTIVAL (2014) 8 planned, with ordered streets on clear grids oriented teresting projects were realized that questioned the resources on the seabed, as well as the withdrawal 3 Address: Hans Nilsens veg 41, Tromsø Architect: Sami Rintala with towards the distant mountain ranges. existing architectural production, trying to develop of the ice sheets and resulting geopolitical implica- international students tions. It is a time also characterized by an increasingly Address: Sandhornøya, Gildeskål TOUR GUIDE TOUR Info: www.salted.no international architectural production. Architects SKOVANG HEGE Exploring a from abroad are given important projects, and local city, region, POLARBO RESIDENCE (1994) or theme architects are more rapidly influenced by global Architect: Steinsvik Arkitektkontor 14 SCHERTZER FANNY 15 practice, hyperlocal movements and DIY spirit. Address: Lia, Vei 234 Info: www.steinsvikarkitektkontor. JAN MARTIN BERG MARTIN JAN VARDØ CHURCH (1958) blogspot.nl For international travellers, Bodø is a good place Architect: Eivind Moestue 13 14 ALFHEIM SWIMMING HALL (1965) 18 to arrive, with the possibility of reaching the Lofoten Address: Søndre Langgate 2, Vardø 9 Architect: Jan Inge Hovig archipelago, Harstad and Tromsø from there. Address: Alfheimveien 23, Tromsø 12 Distances are vast, but travel options are varied. 11 19 There are many local flights, and the Hurtigruten TORBJØRN 9 cruise line brings travellers by sea from Bergen in KNUT HAMSUN CENTRE (2009) 8 18 the south to Kirkenes in the north-east. 4 Architect: Steven Holl Architects Bodø is the main city of Nordland, the southern- Address: 8294 Hamarøy 10 17 Info: www.stevenholl.com most of northern Norway’s three counties. The city was rebuilt after the war with an urban plan that combines classical ideas with a strong relationship RIESTO BJARNE 16 to the surrounding nature. The town hall (1) by 5 Gudolf Blakstad and Herman Munthe-Kaas was com- 7 pleted in 1962. The centrally located building has 6 clear pre-modern references, with a bell tower and main hall on the piano nobile. In 2012, Danish firm Atelier Lorentzen & Langkilde won the competition 4 for a new addition to the building, which is a good TORBJØRN ANDERSEN TORBJØRN DAVID GRANDORGE DAVID VEGVESEN WÆHLER/STATENS J. HARSTAD CHURCH (1958) SVALBARD HOUSING (2009) STEILNESET MEMORIAL (2011) 1 ‘ The region has experienced Architects: Jan Inge Hovig Architect: Brendeland & Kristoffersen Architect: Peter Zumthor, 5 BERG MARTIN JAN 15 19 Address: Åsveien 2, Harstad Address: Vei 230, Longyearbyen Louise Bourgeois a major shift, from remote Info: www.bkark.no Address: Andreas Lies gate 9950, GRØNNEGATA 21 – 23 (1986) Vardø 3 2 outpost to the centre 10 Architects: Blå Strek arkitekter Info: www.nasjonaleturistveger.no/en/ Address: Grønnegata 21-23, Tromsø varanger/steilneset of rapid transformation. ’ Info: www.bluearchitecture.com 58 A10 #60 TOUR GUIDE TOUR GUIDE A10 #60 59 (Northern lights) ning and the actual building of their new home. IN THE NEXT ISSUE: starting point for a tour of the city that should also From 1988 to 1990, the building exhibition Bo i nord include the new cultural quarter (2). Due to open in (‘Living in the North’) was organized in Tromsø (12), EUROVISION: HUNGARY late 2014, it is based on a 2009 competition win by and included projects by Blå Strek, Div.A, Steinsvik In recent years, Hungary has witnessed significant British practice DRDH. The three buildings in the Arkitekter, Bjerk & Bjørge and others. The exhibition, economic, political and social changes. The quarter reference the city’s existing buildings, like the just outside the city centre, is organized around an economic crisis slowed the construction industry, much older town hall, and develops a new relation Arctic park and includes several interesting housing forcing many architects to venture into design ship to the landscape. It includes a theatre, concert projects that take both the location and the need for and technology. The government’s centralizing hall, new library, cafés and exhibition spaces. more social housing developments as their starting tendencies and budget cuts resulted in a gap A 45minute trip by highspeed passenger boat point. Blå Strek’s Punktet is a series of three houses in social services, inviting a focus on community takes you to Sandhornøya and the SALT art and connected by an outdoor pergola, while Octupus by cohesion and public space. In the meantime, architecture festival (3). Now in its first year, the Løvstakken and Sundlisæter is a complex with almost Budapest has become one of Europe’s party capi festival is situated on a large white beach surrounded one fifth of floor space set aside as common areas. tals, with interior design driving the commer by mountains and looking out on the northern archi cialization of entire neighbourhoods. Eurovision pelago. The project consists of a group of buildings Svalbard, while mostly visited for its untouched na Hungary outlines these trends, exploring the (including a grand hall, sauna and living quarters) ture and the Aurora Borealis, also has a few archi complexity of practicing architecture in the con created by Sami Rintala and international groups of tectural gems. Longyearbyen, a small city of about temporary Hungarian landscape. students. The event will remain at its current location 2000 inhabitants, is the centre of these remote is until September 2015, when it heads off on a nomadic lands. The city was established as a mining town, journey through the Arctic territories.* but as mining activity dwindled, its focus has be The Knut Hamsun Centre (4) in Hamarøy is a two come more centred on research.