Backyard

I took these pictures in a backyard (bakgård) in Paris. 5 minutes later we got kicked out by a very angry woman. The first picture is definitely my favorite. Wood at its best.

Methylene Dye In Water

Obama, The Freshman

Supposedly he wanted to be an architect. Photos by Lisa Jack.

The Secret Of The Pyramids

I have always admired the Egyptians and their beautiful pyramids. Watch this documentary on NRK about the French architect Jean Pierre Houdin. He came up with a new theory on how it was possible to build the pyramids thousands of years ago.

Spinning Fork

Bård in our class got shortlisted with his competition entry Spinning Fork in Beyond Silver.

Architecture Readings

Sometime I like to read the logs of different newspapers. Here's a list and use Google to translate. Enjoy reading.

Review: The Norwegian House
Comment: Bjørvika's Other Facade
Article: Journal Against Cliches
Article: A Manifold of Architectures
Article: Common Architecture
Article: The Divine Architect
Series: The Life In Between Houses, Seduced by Ayn Rand
Series: Le Corbusier: Part I, Part II, Part III
Series: Architects In Novels; The Genius, The Social Democrat, The Socialist, The Rebelist, Tone Berg's Confession

Cool Summer

Remember to stop by the Snøhetta exhibition at Arkitekturmuseet this summer.









Models of the Opera.









Visit Café Grosh. Lovely mussels.

Summer Essentials

Roof Timber Framing

Some classic film clips on how to properly frame and mount a timber roof structure. Notice the music in the background. Hillarious stuff. In some ways or another it calms you down and sets the mood right for learning. Watch them here.

25

Our school was granted a big pot of money by the Government here in Norway. This will be used to add 25 more to our student body. Read the article here.

Peter Talks

Great interview with Peter Zumthor over at AJ.

Home

A full length film on YouTube. This would be the best film ever put out on YouTube for free, mos def.

Foam At Løkka

Second Life Town Planning

Old School

Wouldn't mind re-using old factory furniture.

Civilization

Civic City

"Design plays an increasingly important role in shaping urban space. A City is no longer seen to comprise only buildings, streets, squares and parks. Text and images in public space, branding campaigns, street art, guidance systems, temporary installations, processual and interactive design and cartographic illustrations influence our use, experience and perception of the city, as do signage, urban furnishings, vehicles, infrastructures and the appearance of public facades. The Civic City research project, “Design for the Post-Neoliberal City” addresses these design practices in the light of the escalating crisis of neoliberalism. It looks for design potentials for a social city." - Clipped from Civic City.

This is...

...how you keep your beer cold while staying up all night at school.

Tyler Brûlé

This post is way past due. I went to this event some weeks ago mainly because of Tyler Brûlé. Got some footage of the talk, too. He's talking about the Eurovision Song-contest, broadcasting Norwegian architecture, the Most-Liveable-City Index, Norsk-residence idea and answers an sms-question. I suggest you listen in on this week of The Monocle Weekly and watch the video below.

What Is Architecture?

Architecture Is The Key To Everything

Presenting Opera

Tarald and Kjetil from Snøhetta talks about their Opera project.

Neri Oxman

Google says Neri Oxman taught at the IT-Master's Programme at our school. Probably in collaboration with these guys. Looking at the things she produces, too bad she no longer isn't affiliated with our school. Wonder why she left. She's a blogger too, so have a read.

Exciting News

Conditions magazine is a new independent Scandinavian quarterly exploring the conditions for architecture and urbanism. They even have a blog. Cool!

Bridge And House

Nice video footage over at 0300TV, of both Amanogawa Bridge and Element House, done by our former teacher Sami.

Final Crit Day 2

I forgot my camera on the day of the crit, but Ole Marius took pictures and sent them to us. Thanks!

Professor in Building Constuction Bjørn Sandaker.



The crowd.



Terje paying attention while Professor Bente Kleven is talking about the project.



Sigrid doing her thing.



Jens' project. Concrete ribbons coming up from the ground.



Dag's project. Nice model.

Matthew Shlian

Wouldn't mind having Matt in my class.

The Selby

Want to see where creative people work and live? Lots of inspiration! Click here.

Alexander Wang's office and studio in NYC.

Ville's Project

Ville describing his project; "The programme is broken into 5 partially independent volumes (auditorium, gallery, library, administration and café) clad in cor-ten steel panels, and placed on a base of concrete. The concrete base creates a roof landscape to walk on with an information centre underneath. The cor-ten volumes' meeting with the space underneath the concrete deck creates spatial overlaps; illuminated shafts with individual stairs connecting the centre with the individual parts of the programme".

Anders' Project

This is how Anders describes his project; "All in all I think I got to touch onto some interesting points around the distribution of public space and communication between program nodes within a limited site. Everything were wrapped in a study of environmentally conscious if not friendly building that let me look at some basic principles of energy efficient building physics."

Rem Cool House

This blog is a must follow for all architecture students and cartoonist. Its Klaus ranting about life at the Harvard GSD. Should maybe have one of these at our school, too. Anyone out there up for it?

Summer Vacation

We had our last exam today. We'll be blogging through the summer though, don't worry!

Videos From Jan

Had to re-post them here. Jan over at JAJA maintains an inspirational blog. Filled with stuff that occupies their small office. Here are two videos.

WOW filming the cityscape in Japan for Citizen.



Bunch of guys installed LED on facade.



Some guy playing around with his water, oil and Canon Rebel XT DSLR.

Bård's Project

Bård's Centre for Biological Diversity made of concrete and massive wood.

AHO Works

Joachim's Project

Joachim planted a lot of trees on the site and called his project Nordhavnen Arboretum. The building is constructed of scaffolds.

My Project

Here are a few pictures of my semester project. The site is situated at Nordhavnen in Copenhagen. The Port's Information Center houses a cafè, library, auditorium, gallery and offices. It is constructed of massive wood and is placed 25 meters out in the water on concrete columns.

The High Line, New York

Paris Classics

Froot Loops

Buldr About Architects

Architecture debate going on over at Buldr.

Winston Says

Pavilion Suisse

Student housing by Le Corbusier in La Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.

Spring Fleas

A Little Piece Of Heaven

Making models in this shop would be a dream

Reflections Of Paris