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Greenland Architecture : Buildings

Key Contemporary Architectural Developments in the North Atlantic Region.

post updated 4 August 2024

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Buildings in Greenland

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Greenlandic Architecture. We aim to include Greenland Buildings that are interesting and of strong quality. The country is autonomous within the Kingdom of Denmark. e-architect cover completed Greenlandic buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and competitions across Greenland. The focus is on contemporary Greenland buildings but information on traditional Greenlandic architecture is also welcome.

North Atlantic Architecture News – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

16 July 2022
Qaammat Pavilion, Sarfannguit
Design: Konstantin Arkitekter
Qaammat Pavilion Sarfannguit Greenland
photo : Julien Lanoo
Qaammat Pavilion, Sarfannguit Greenland
The Qaammat Pavilion designed and built by Architect Konstantin Ikonomidis in cooperation with UNESCO and the Qeqqata Municipality, located in Sarfannguit, Greenland wins A+Awards. Located in Sarfannguit, a cultural landscape in West Greenland and a UNESCO Worl Heritage site since 2018, the Qaammat pavilion by Konstantin Ikonomidis is designed to celebrate and promote the Inuit intangible cultural heritage and traditional knowledge of the environment.

9 September 2021
Icefjord Centre, Ilulissat
Design: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter
Ilulissat Icefjord Centre Greenland building
photo : Adam Mørk
Ilulissat Icefjord Centre
In the harsh yet beautiful Arctic landscape surrounded by snow and ice, Dorte Mandrup has designed Ilulissat Icefjord Centre on the edge of the UNESCO-protected Greenland wilderness. Overlooking the Kangia Icefjord on the west coast of Greenland, 250 km north of the Arctic Circle, the building blends effortlessly into the landscape and offers a unique vantage point from which to experience the astonishing Icefjord and understand the dramatic consequences of climate change on this remarkable landscape.

Latest Greenland Building Designs

North Atlantic Architecture Design News, chronological:

22 Jun 2016
Ilulissat Icefjord
Design: Dorte Mandrup Architects
Icefjord Centre Greenland Architecture
image from architects
Ilulissat Icefjord by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter
An Icefjord Centre in Ilulissat will attract tourists to Greenland and contribute to our understanding of climate change. The Danish architectural firm Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter has designed the visionary building for the centre with respect of the unique, UNESCO-protected natural surroundings.

20 May 2013
Nuuk Correctional Facility Building
Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects with Friis & Moltke
Greenland Architecture - Ny Anstalt in Nuuk
image from architects office
Nuuk Correctional Facility Greenland
As part of a Danish design team, schmidt hammer lassen architects has won the competition to design the correctional facility Ny Anstalt in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. The winning design for the 8,000 square metre facility was submitted by a team including Rambøll as full service contractor, architects Friis & Moltke and landscape architects Møller & Grønborg. Ny Anstalt is the first such facility in Greenland.

May 2018
Greenland National Gallery of Art
Design: BIG + TNT Nuuk + Ramboll Nuuk + Arkitekti
Greenland National Gallery of Art building design
image from BIG
Greenland National Gallery of Art
BIG + TNT Nuuk + Ramboll Nuuk + Arkitekti is the winning team to design the new National Gallery of Greenland in the country’s capital Nuuk, among invited proposals totaling 6 Nordic architects. Located on a steep slope overlooking the most beautiful fjords in Greenland, the 3,000 sqm National Gallery will serve as a cultural and architectural icon for the people of Greenland.

Greenland Buildings

Katuaq – Grønlands Kulturhus, Nuuk
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Katuaq Culture Centre building in Nuuk - Greenland Architecture
photo : Joachim Ladefoged
Grønlands Kulturhus Nuuk
Inspired by Greenland’s dramatic scenery of icebergs, snowfields and mountains, the main element of the building is sheathed by a ‘floating’, undulating screen of golden larch wood. This second ‘skin’ lends the scheme an elegant airiness, creating a contrast with the solid form of the core building.

Another Greenlandic Building by Danish architects:

Queen Ingrid Hospital, Godthåb
Design: C. F. Møller, Architects
Queen Ingrid Hospital Greenland building design
picture : C. F. Møller, Architects
Queen Ingrid Hospital Building
Greenland’s national hospital, the Queen Ingrid Hospital inaugurated a new health centre and national pharmacy – with a distinctive architecture inspired by the ice floes of Godthåbsfjord. C. F. Møller Architects is responsible for the building extension and for the general plan for the whole project.

Location: Greenland

Architecture in countries close to Greenland:

Faroe Islands Buildings

Faroe Islands Education Centre, Torshavn
Design: BIG, in collaboration with Fuglark, Lemming & Eriksson, Sámal Johannesen, Martin E. Leo and KJ Elrad
Torshavn Building
image : BIG, architects
Faroe Islands Education Centre
Situated on a hillside in the outskirts of Torshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, the new Education Center will seek to establish synergies between the different educational programs placed within. Housing more than 1,200 students and 300 teachers the center is the largest educational building project in the country’s history.

Icelandic Architecture

Iceland Buildings

Bifröst school building
Design: Studio Granda
Bifröst school building
photograph : Magnus Gudnasson
Bifröst school building

Supreme Court building
Design: Studio Granda
Iceland Supreme Court building
photo : Sigurgeir Sigurjonsson
Icelandic building

Reykjavik University building
Design: Henning Larsen Architects
Reykjavik University building
image from architects office
Reykjavik University building

Country Architecture adjacent to Greenland

Norwegian Architecture

Canadian Architecture

Scottish Tour

Faroe Islands Buildings

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