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Norwegian Architecture Designs

Key Buildings + Property Developments in Norway, Europe: Nordic built environment updates.

post updated 20 September 2024

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We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Norwegian Architecture Designs. We cover completed buildings, new building designs and architecture competitions across Norway. The focus is on contemporary Norwegian buildings but information on traditional Nordic buildings is also welcome.

We have 5 pages of Norwegian Architecture selections.

Architecture Designs in Norway

Norwegian Architecture : news + key projects

Norwegian Building Developments : A-G

Norwegian Building Designs : H-M

Norwegian Architecture Designs : N-R (this page)

Norwegian Buildings : S-Z

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Selection of Norwegian Architecture

Norway Architectural Designs, alphabetical:

Naust paa Aure, More og Romsdal
Design: TYIN tegnestue Architects
Naust paa Aure Norway
photo : Pasi Aalto / pasiaalto.com
Naust paa Aure
This particular boathouse is located on the outermost reaches of the Moere-coast, and it hails from the middle of the eighteenth century. It was in such a bad state that the owner decided to tear it down and build it anew.

New Valer Church, near Oslo
Design: OOIIO Architecture
New Valer Church Norway Building
picture : OOIIO Architecture
New Valer Church
In commissioning the competition, the church of Våler chose for a seldom witnessed step in church history, one that always comes with interesting results. Tapping on a source of collective creativity in modern architecture offers the chance to bring the development of church architecture to a new level.

Oppdal Sentrum
Design: ADEPT
Oppdal Sentrum Norwegian Architecture Designs
image from ADEPT
Oppdal Sentrum
The scenic skiing and hiking area Oppdal in Norway is being revitalized with a new dynamic city center. ADEPT, in collaboration with Various Architects and Lalaland landscape architects, has won the international competition for Oppdal Sentrum.

Oslo Airport Terminal
Design: Narud Stokke Wiig
Oslo Airport Norwegian Architecture Designs
picture : NSW
Oslo Airport Building
There will be a total of 14 aircraft parking spaces, four of which will be flexible gates that can handle traffic from areas both inside and outside the Schengen Area. The extension will provide a total area of 39,700 sqm for travellers to countries outside the Schengen Area.

Oslo International School Building
Design: Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Arkitekter
Oslo International School
photo from JVA
Oslo International School Building
This Norwegian education building is located in Bekkestua, Norway. The institution has a current enrollment of approximately 600 students from 3 to 19 years of age (pre-school to IB Diploma).

Oslo Operahouse – cultural building
Design: Snøhetta
Norwegian Operahouse
photo : Statsbygg
Norwegian Operahouse
The competition brief stated that the operahouse should be of high architectural quality and should be monumental in it’s expression. One idea stood out as a legitimation of this monumentality.

Petter Dass Museum, northern Norway
Design: Snøhetta
Petter Dass Museum
picture from Snøhetta
Petter Dass Museum Building, Alstaharg
The project was financed by Alstahaug kommune, Nordland fylkeskommune, Kultur- og kikedepartementet and commercial contributions. The architects, Snøhetta, have continuously been involved in the process since 2001 and until the opening of the museum.

Pilgrim Centre in Røldal, central Norway
Design: LETH & GORI
Røldal Pilgrim Centre Norwegian Architecture Designs
image from architects firm
Pilgrim Centre in Røldal
LETH & GORI’s competition entry for a Pilgrim Centre in Røldal creates a new building in close connection with the 13th century church. The Pilgrim Centre is a hub for experiencing Røldal’s unique history, nature and architecture.

Porsgrunn Maritime Museum
Design: COBE and TRANSFORM
Porsgrunn Maritime Museum Norwegian Architecture Design
image from architects studio
Porsgrunn Maritime Museum
Porsgrunn Maritime Museum and Exploratorium is situated in the Norwegian town of Porsgrunn, 100 km south west of Oslo. The new museum will tell the story of the town’s dock yard industry and its maritime history, which has employed thousands of people from the whole region.

PWC building, Barcode development, Oslo
Design: a-lab
Oslo development Norwegian Architecture Designs
photo from a-lab
Oslo development, Bjørvika
The new PWC building marks the beginning of the Barcode development, and will be the the most visible building in Barcode from downtown and the west. The new PWC building initiates the Barcode development, and will be the ‘face’ of Barcode towards downtown and the west.

Red House, Oslo
Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Arkitekter
Oslo House
photograph : Nils Petter Dale
Oslo House
The site for this Norwegian house is a former garden on the east bank of a heavily wooded river valley. The residential building is placed perpendicular to the stream, to heighten the dramatic potential of the setting.

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Norwegian Buildings – No Images

Major Contemporary Nordic Architecture Developments, alphabetical:

National Library Extension, Oslo
Date built: 2007
Design: Longva Arkitekter AS

Nobel Peace Center – Exhibition Centre Building, Oslo
Dates built: 2002-05
Design: Adjaye/Associates

Nordic Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia
Date built: 1992
Design: Sverre Fehn Architect

Norwegian Glacier Museum – Norske Bremuseum, Fjærland
Date built: 1991
Sverre Fehn

Realfagbygget – Faculty of Chemistry & Biology, University buildings, Trondheim

Narud Stokke Wiig Architects

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Location: Norway, Northern Europe

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Architecture in Norway

Oslo Buildings

Norwegian Architect

Nowegian architect studio : Snøhetta

Norwegian Architecture above the Arctic Circle

Sami Parliament Building, Lapland
2000/01
Halvorsen & Sundby

Nordic architect : Sverre Fehn

Norwegian Architect offices : key designers

Nordic Wood Architecture – Seminar : Houses in Wood

Architecture Design

Contemporary Building Designs – recent architectural selection from e-architect below:

Architects

Architectural News

House designs

Buildings / photos for the Norwegian Architecture Design page welcome