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Snøhetta is a leading team of architects with offices in Oslo and New York. This first-ever publication to document their work presents the most important projects of these architects, who have been active internationally for fifteen years. These projects include the Library of Alexandria (2002), the New Opera House in Oslo (2008), and the Gateway Project in Ras Al-Khaimah, Dubai (2011), and the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion. Snøhetta’s works and projects revolve around a collaboration and interchange between various disciplines. Each of their projects is freshly observed and discussed according to the fundamental aspects of site, landscape, and context, in order to enable solutions to be discovered and developed. In this interweaving of disciplines Snøhetta involves locally and internationally renowned artists in the development of their projects. Working together with artists early on is also an expression of the curiosity and creative openness on the part of this internationally successful office, which is respected for its progressive working conidtions.
Design: Integral Lars Müller
22 × 28 cm, 8 ¾ x 11 in, 304 pages, 570 illustrations, hardcover (2009)
ISBN 978-3-03778-147-0, e
EUR 50.00 / USD 75.00 / GBP 45.00




Foreword
Norwegian National Opera and Ballet
Other projects: cut in the ground/roof as a landscape
Bibliotheca Alexandria
Artificial Mirages
Bart Lootsma
Sandvika Cultural Center
Other projects: box-like structure/ framing the landscape:
Karmøy Fishing Museum
Petter Dass Museum
Other projects: public spaces and buildings
National September 11th Memorial Museum Pavillion
The Intertwined
Thure Erik Lund
Lillehammer Art Museum
Other projects: smooths forms and structures
Ras Al Khaimah Gateway project
Points of Origin
Ingerid H. Almaas
King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture
Tubaloon – Kongsberg Jazz Festival Band Shelter
Snohetta History
Appendix«Das Bildmaterial wird in frischem schnörkellosen Layout präsentiert, die Fotos dokumentieren, mit welcher Sensibilität Snøhetta in ihren Bauten auf die Landschaft reagieren.»
Bauwelt
«Die Gestaltung, die Foto- und Druckqualität, das hohe Niveau der Texte wie natürlich auch das der Arbeiten, von denen die meisten gar nicht oder lediglich irgendwo in Fachzeitschriften versteckt publiziert werden, machen diese erste Monografie zu einem hervorragenden Einstieg in ein komplexes wie zugleich singuläres Werk.»
in: dbz, Deutsche Bau Zeitschrift (D), 07/2009