Architecture

In recent years, Norway has been established as an innovative architectural pioneer, partly due to the more or less ambitious installations along the National Tourist Routes. The DETOUR ASIA...

• DETOUR ASIA Lecture: Reading Topological Space
• DETOUR ASIA Lecture: 3RW Lecture at Peking University
• DETOUR ASIA Lecture: 3RW WORKS – a holistic approach to landscape transformation

Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta operates at the bleeding edge of contemporary architecture, merging influences from a variety of disciplines into a visual identity of their own. May 22-27,...

• Snøhetta Architecture Lectures in Guangzhou
• Robert Greenwood at Shanghai Jiaotong University
• Robert Greenwood at Tongji University in Shanghai

Norsk Form was the focus of the 137th issue of Chinese magazine World Architecture Review, a bilingual, bi-monthly publication covering design and architecture around the globe. Read more

Modern architecture has for a long time been an area of co-operation between China and Norway. The interest goes both ways. Through an exhibition at the Norwegian National Museum – Architecture this month, the Norwegian audience will have a chance to experience some examples of architecture from the world’s most dynamic architectural scene – China. Read more

The award winning architect Reiulf Ramstad is visiting Beijing the 11th of December to the architecture seminar organized by Area magazine.

• Transforming Landscapes – Reiulf Ramstad Architects from Norway.
• Area Dialogue: Architecture and Arts with exclusive visit from Norway

The Royal Norwegian Consulate General in Shanghai and The Foundation for Design and Architecture in Norway hosted the seminar The Architecture of Tourism; Authenticity, heritage and renewal at the Norwegian Expo pavilion on September 27th. Read more

Norway in collaboration with its Nordic neighbors present New Nordic Landscapes, an exhibition to be held between the 1st of June and 15th of August at the Nordic lighthouse in Shanghai. The themes are biodiversity in an urban context, interaction between infrastructure and landscape and process urbanism. Read more

The architectural exhibition ”Lost in Nature” by Norwegian Architects Jarmund/Vigsnæs will be on display at Tsinghua School of Architecture between 24. May and 5. June, with an official opening on Monday the 24th, at three in the afternoon. The exhibition highlights selected works of the Oslo-based firm. Read more

Echoing the Shanghai EXPO theme “Better City, Better Life”, where innovation and architecture are highlighted, the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beijing invites 12 Chinese architecture professionals to embark on an architecture study trip to Norway from March 22 to 26. Read more

“American Steven Holl’s latest project is a breath of fresh architectural air set just above the Arctic Circle,” wrote the journal Wallpaper about the new Hamsun Centre. Read more

November 19th to 22nd the Norwegian Consulate General in Guangzhou held the first Norwegian cultural festival in Guangzhou. Read more

From 19 to 22 November, we put Norway on the map in Guangzhou. Read more

Rintala Eggertsson Architects was established in 2007 by the Finnish architect Sami Rintala and the Icelandic architect Dagur Eggertsson. The office bases it's activities on furniture design, public art projects, architecture and planning. Read more

Fantastic Norway is an architectural studio founded in 2004 by Håkon Matre Aasarød and Erlend Blakstad Haffner. Between 2003-2007, they travelled around in Norway in a red caravan, anchoring themselves in towns where change were needed. Read more

Norway based architect firm participates in “Crossing: Dialogues for Emergency Architecture” exhibition at NAMOC in Beijing. The exhibition commemorates the first anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake. Read more

Oslo School of Architecture and Design comes to the Center Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing to show their exhibition “Generator”. Read more

Six months after the opening of the spectacular Opera House, Oslo's new landmark has won the WAF Award for Culture for 2008. Read more

Vision alone was good enough for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation when it decided the company that will build the new museum on Ground Zero. The Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta got the job without presenting so much as a drawing. Read more